HAWERA COURT.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 27 January 1927, Page 4

HAWERA COURT.

TO-DAY’S SITTING

P OLJCE; PROSECUTIONS. The fortnightly sitting; of the Mugistrace's Ui>mn> at- Hnweru was lesuiwed tins morning, ALr. J. S. J flair ton, S.M., presiding. ABSENT FROM PARADE. Richard Henry Blackwell. who forwarded. a written pea oi guilty an answer to a cuarge ox being absent without reave iront the parade or xso. lo Company senior cadets on October I'd, was nued ids and Vs costs. CUTTING A, CORNER. For cutting the corner of High and Princes Street, when driving a motor ear on December 27, Leonard \Y. J. Jones, of Wellington, was fined 10s and costs 7s. _ U N LIGHTED' BICYCLES. Laurence Holmes, of Hawera, who had received two previous warnings from the police, was lined £1 and 10s costs for riding an unlighted bicycle along High Street after dark on December 23. For a similar offence on December 15, Jessie May Pettier was fined the same sum. /

RIDING ONI THE FOOTWAY. Doris Ida -Biilton, who- was seen b\ Inspector Hunt to ride a bicycle on the footway of Victoria Street at about 6 p.m., on November IS and Whom, the inspector explained, had been previously warned, was fined 25s and 7s costs. ILLEGALLY UPON LICENSED' PREMISES. Martin Oaisserley, hydro works employeel, and Percy Edward Chapman, both of Inglewood, who, on the course of a.' visit to Hawera on January 4, were seen to enter the Egmont Hotel at about 8.30 p.m., did not tappear to answer charges of being on licensed premises after hours. The evidence of Constable Fleming was to the effect that the visitors had called and requested liquid refreshment. but ibad -been promptly refused and asked to leave by the 'licensee. Bach defendant was convicted and ordered to pay £1 and 17s costs. SHOP OPEN ON: HALF HOLIDAY. Wee On and Cb., fruiterers of Hawera, who, on November 3, failed to observe the statutory half holiday in that they made .sales of seasonal fireworks were fined 10s and 24s fid costs. STORING DANGEROUS GOODS. The • Hawera Transport Companj, with the manager, Harold fc>. -Garrett, was charged by the Borough Inspector (Mr. B. Hunt) with storing petroleum spirit on January 11 at a place other than specified in the license issued. The charge related to 5b gallons of benzine, which had been left overnight in a lorry in the main building of the company's premises. Mr. J. Houston, who entered a P lea of guilty, on behalf of the defendant company, asked that only a nominal penalty, if any. be inflicted. In his address to the court he pointed out that the benzine referred to in the charge diil not belong to the company, but was being carried for a client and had arrived late at the premises of the company, owing to a mishap to the lorry, but for which it would have been delivered to the owner. The manager had not been aware until The following morning that the benzine had :been left in the lorry. The magistrate remarked upon the responsibility of those handling benzine to .see that the provisions of the Dangerous Goods Act were complied with. In. inflicting a penalty of £lO. with £1 8s costs, he stated that he was j taking counsel’s representations into " account, this being only a fifth of the amount of the fine he _had inflicted for a similar charge against another defendant previously. ARREARS OF MAINTENANCE. Laurence Cbr.rigan, who was charged with being in arrears to> the extent of £IBB Bs, as at December 31, 1926, in respect of a maintenance order made ill September 1919 for 10s a week for each of -his two children, wias sentenced to 14 days’ imprisonment, to be re- ; leased on payment of £2O and cost of arrest if any. Solomon Zinsli was charged -with disobedience of a maintenance order in respect of his wife, the arrears to January 25 amounting to £l2 10s. He was sentenced to 10 days’ imprisonment, to be released on payment of £6 •and £1 Is costs. Edward George Ealwa-sser,_ who at December 2 had allowed a maintenance order in favour of his wife to get into arrears to the extent of £5 17s. was .sentenced to 14 days’ imprisonment, to be released on payment of £l4 and costs.