COURTS AND OFFENCES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 28 August 1929, Page 9

COURTS AND OFFENCES.

SHOPKEEPERS BEFORE THE COURT. INVERCARGILL. Aug. 2S. Several shopkeepers were before the court to-day on charges of selling tobacco after hours, and of failing to notify the inspector that they sold tobacco. Fines ranging from £3 to £5 were imposed. CASE DISMISSED. I WELLINGTON, Aug. 27. Mabel Gladys Hadaway, 28 years of age, and Edmund) 'Blundell, a salesman, 37 years of age, appeared' before. Mr E. Page, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court toi-day, charged with stealing at Sydney, on July 18, clothing valuedi at £2OO the property of Thomas William Glad'die Hadaway, of Sydney, the husband of the woman.

The magistrate refused to issue an extradition order and dismissed the .case.

CONSTABLE! FINED £2. DUNEDIN, Aug. 28. Leonard Garlick, a police constable, was fined £2 for being on the premises of the Port Chalmers Hotel. . A sergeant gave evidence that the defendant was on night duty at the time.. Witness saw the door opened by the licensee and defendant stepped out in uniform. Defendant said he had entered the hotel and taken the names of men in the bar on a piece of note paper. He was neither drinking nor loitering in the hotel. The magistrate said the sergeant’s evidence was corroborated by another constable, and he held'that defendant was unlawfully on the premises. FURTHER REMAND GRANTED. DUNEDIN, Aug. 28 William Henry Brauman, charged with the murder of his wife at St. Clair by shooting on August 7, was further remanded till September 11.