COURTS AND OFFENCES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 25 June 1927, Page 6

COURTS AND OFFENCES.

WHISKY WRONGLY LABELLED. (BI TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION.) WELLINGTON, .June 24. Alexander Rattray, a hotelkeeper oi Christchurch, was to-day lined £2O for using a whisky bottle from which the original label had not been removed, to bottle another brand. The offence took place on the occasion of the recent races at Treutham. Hilda. Nicholls, license of Chain’s Rost- Hotel, Wallaceville, on a. similar charge was also fined £2O.

WOMAN ADMITTED TO PROBATION CHRISTCHURCH, June 24. A young woman gamed Winifred Iris Cockle, who admitted causing damage by setting, tire to the curtains in a house at Mangere, was admitted to probation, for two years, and was ordered to make restitution ,to the extent of £l2 10. It was .stated that the accused gave as an excuse for her act .that she hoped her employers would shift from Mangere. She was nob a first offender.

A PRINTER FINED

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An echo of the recent tseamen’s dispute wa.s heard in the Court to-day, whei Denis. Driscoll, a. printer, was fined £lO for printing a paper for publication without his name and address. Chief Detective Ward said the case arose out of the formation of the new Seamen’s Union. The defendant published a circular purporting to Shave been issued by Mr W. T. Young, leader of one section of the. seamen, bub Mr Young denied authorising it, and said that' it had been published to discredit him in the eyes of some of the men. The police have boon unable to find out whoi authorised the. circular. The defence was that the imprint had been cut off during trimming, -and that when the proof bad been isent out for correction, the draft copy had been lost.

GAMBLING PERMITTED. ASHBURTON, June 24. At the Police Court, Timothy Ivissane was charged as the outcome of a police raid on June 3 that, being the occupier of certain premises, he did knowingly and wilfully permit Basil Muller to use the said premises as a common gaming house. He pleaded guilty, and was fined £25, half to be paid in a fortnight and the remainder within a month.

Muller was fined £SO at the previous sitting for assisting in the- conduct of the house. ■