COURTS AND OFFENCES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 13 June 1927, Page 9

COURTS AND OFFENCES.

OVERSTAYED HIS PERAIIT. (by telegraph—press association.) WELLINGTON, June; 13. Ti ing Nang, alias Wing Lam, a Chinese, aged 37, was charged in the Magistrate's Court with remaining in the Dominion after the expiry of his permit to do so. The Collector of Customs said that Nang came to New Zealand in April, 1925, and had his permit extended several times on the ground of ill-healt-h, but the last extension over-ran the time limit. The collector said that the first available steamer would leave New Zealand on June 24, and Nang could be placed aboard her. The Chinese Masonic Society mean white was prepared to enter a bond of £IOO if he were given liis freedom. The Alagisferate made an order that the accused come up for sentence on June 25, pointing out that if lie failed to leave New Zealand he could be dealt with drastically.

LIGHT CALENDAR. AT GISBORNE. GISBORNE, June 13. The Supreme Court opened to-day before Air. Justice Ostler. There was a light criminal calendar, there being only four cases for trial. True bills were found in each ca.se.

RAID ON BOXING SCHOOL, AUCKLAND, June 13. The police raid on a boxing school in Customs Street on Saturday night resulted this morning in Frederick William Batchelor being fined £6Q in default two. months’ imprisonment for keeping a common gaming house. His assistant, David Simon, was fined £3O and about thirty olientis were fined amounts ranging from £1 to £5.