COURTS AND OFFENCES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 2 July 1927, Page 5

COURTS AND OFFENCES.

FIXED FOR SELLING ADULTERATED WINE.

(BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION.) AUCKLAND, July 1. Charles Kendrick, trading as the Te Kauwliata Wine Company Company, Ltd., was fined £25 by Mr McKean, S.M.. lor selling port wine containing coal tar dye, a prohibited substance. Counsel stated that the liquid was labelled “Pure New Zealand Wine. ’ It was of poor class, consisting of reject apples, reject pears, reject grapes and third-class honey. In fining Kendrick, tlie Magistrate tof.d him that 1 he was liable to a fine of £2OO on- three months’ imprisonment.

SHOP-TAKINGS STOLEN

AUCKLAND, July J

A ‘bag containing between £6O and £7O representing yesterday’s takings at the shop, was stolen from the motorvan of D. H estop and Co., butcher®, Onehunga. This morning the Heslop brothers, following their usual custom, had taken the cash home with them after the closing of the shop and bad if with them ”in the motor-van which they drove to the abattoirs, intending later to deposit in when the hank opened. While both were absent from the motorvan at the abattoirs the money was stolen.

READ “DEADWOOD DICK” NOVELS. PALMERSTON N., July I. “I think he has been reading literature of a class no good to him. In liis room were found ‘Deadwocd Dick’ novels,” stated Senior-Sergeant O’Grady at the Police Court this morning, of Clarence Ralph Edwin \\‘heeler, aged 19, who was charged with the theft of 10s. When arrested, the Senior-Sergeant pro- ceded, lie was wearing a belt with cartridge pouches and had an imitation automatic pistol, really a water pistol, stuck in it. This was harmless, of course, but it showed the ideas running through his mind. It was also stated that the accused had a widowed mother and had been previously in trouble. He was admitted to probation.

“IT’S A BEAUTY.” CHRISTCHURCH, July 1. “Thank you, sir; it’s a beauty,” commented a, man who left the box in the Magistrate’s Court to-day after receiving a sentence of six months’ imprisonment- with hard labour. “That’s all right,” replied Mr. Mosley, S.M. The man was Richard Goughian, who was charged with having on June 27 stolen a leather bag and contents, valued at £o, the property or James Heasley

PRESENTED A REVOLVER. * _ TAIHAPE, July 1. Henry Mitchell Fisher, late manager for Messrs OoLlinsou and Gifford, was charged before the Magistrate with presenting a revolver at two directors and the auditor at a meeting in which the affairs of the company were being in vestigatod. The meeting led to his t»nal for misappropriation, to whieh he pleaded guilty and was committed for sentence- to tlie Suoreme Court. Fisher pleaded guilty and was fined £fi. On tlie two other minor charges under the Arms Act, he was ordered to (jay 10s costs on each charge.