COURTS AND OFFENCES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 19 August 1927, Page 9

COURTS AND OFFENCES.

MOTOR-CYCLIST FINED. (BY TELEGRAPH TRESS ASSOCIATION .) WELLINGTON, Aug. 19. Ralph Roland Levy, a motor mechanic was fined £ls by Mr 1 ngt, ,S M for being intoxicated while ruling ‘i motor-cycle on Adelaide Road. He was steering an erratic course and the police found a jar of beer in the side-car. SOLD 1 ADULTERATED MILK. DARGAVILLE. Aug. 19. A fanner named William Iv. Mackie, who supplies a local milk vendor with milk, was dharged at the Police Coinrt last week with selling milk containing twelve per cent, added water. \\ hen the case was heard the Magistrate, Mr K. E. Hunt, reserved judgment, which was delivered to-day. In the course of his decision he said that defendant had not availed himself of a clause in the Act which allowed him to challenge tlie analysist’s 'report, nor did he have the sample left with him analysed The magistrate considered the methods or analysis adopted by the Department afforded a simple and reliable means of testing the purity of milk and detecting adulteration with water. The defendant bad stated in court that the analysis was not correct. Defendant was' fined £25, plus costs on the first charge, and was convicted and ordered to pay costs on the second, of selling milk which did not comply with. the standard prescribed by the regulations. WHISKY NOT TRUE TO LABEL. WELLINGTON, Aug. 19. A fine of £25 and costs wa.s imposed to-day on Thomas Joseph Walsh, licensee of the Central Hotel, Otaki. over whose bar a bottle was handed to an inspector on demand, and was found to contain whisky of much poorer quality than that indicated bv the label. ALLEGED MISAPPROPRIATION GISBORNE, Aug. 19. Theft of £1350 by misappropriation was laiieged' at the Police Court this morning against John Noden Bullard, solicitor, who recently pleaded guilty to ten charges of a similar nature anti was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. To-day’s charges concerned amounts received from two other clients, allegedly unaccounted lor. An official of the Public Trustee deposed that in gne estate taken over from Bullard, there was no record of £750, which had been cleared on a mortgage being credited to the account. The Public Trustee was handling seven other estates taken over from defendants and an examination of the documents revealed a shortage of approximately £6900. The accused pleaded guilty and was committed lor sentence. DISCHARGED WITHOUT A CONVICTION. CHRISTCHURCH, Aug. 19. Albert Cox. charged with the theft of the Mayor’s coat from the. Council Chambers, was discharged without a. conviction by Mr Mosley, S.'M., to-day, oil condition that lie took out la, prohibition order. The accused’s record of sc nice in the Navy and Army dates back to 1881.

INTERESTING POINT RAISED. WKLI/ITsGTOM, Ang. 19. A charge was heard by Mr Page, S.M., to-clav. in which an auctioneer, Cecil William Price, acting for the Railway Department in the isale of unclaimed packages, among which were two eases of whisky, disposed of a ciuantity of less than five gallons of liquor. . n , For Hie defence, Mr Blair contended that the Minister of Railways can sell liquor off departmental premises any ivav he likes, wholesale, retail, or at auction. Counsel asked lor the dismissal of the charge with costs against the police. The magistrate said he would take tame to consider both points.