COURTS AND OFFENCES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 26 May 1927, Page 5

COURTS AND OFFENCES.

MOTORIST FINED FOR INTOXICATION.

(BY TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION.) OAMAR-U 'May 25. A young man named Leo Vail©, for driving a car w'-hile intoxicated, was fined £7 and costs and w r -as prohibited from driving for two years by Mr Rund'e, S.M., this morning. V-ail© had been drinking in the afternoon and went to a- social at night. He took a car from outside the hall, and during a ‘‘joy ride” collided with and damaged another car.

THEFT OF WHISKY

CHRISTCHURCH, May 25. Found by the police to have two botties of pillaged wlii-sky in his locker, Henry William Ardeirn, -aged 25 year-s, ai steward on the Arawa, -appeared -in the Lyttelton Magistrate’s Court today charged with the theft of the whisky, the property of the Shaw, Savin Co. Ardern was sentenced to 14 days’ imprisonment.

ILLEGAL SALES OF WINE

CHRISTCHURCH, May 25. With the idea that someone was supplying liquor to young people attending public dances in the city, the police set a watch on George NeLsooii Haxell, .vine manufacturer. * One Saturday evening Haxell sold wine to a constable n pain e.othes, and Haxell appeared .11 the court to-day. He was fined in • ill £l3 and costs, on three charges, me of selling wine im unlabelled bottles and one of selling wine after hours.

CUTTING THE CORNER. AUCKLAND. May 25. “A man who will cut a corner would rill his own mother.” stated Mr F. K. Hunt, S.M.. in dealing with a by-law ■ase at the Po'ice Court this morning. “That’s * terrible crime, you know,” the Magistrate told counsel who was ippearing for the unfortunate motorist charged. Defendant was convicted and ordered to pay costs, his counsel having stated that it had cost him £l6 to repair a damaged cycle as the result of a collision.