BREACHES OF BY-LAWS

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 18 January 1935, Page 8

BREACHES OF BY-LAWS

OFFENDERS IN COURT PENALTY FOR FALSE ALARM Breaches of various by-laws occupied the Hawera Magistrate’s Court for a considerable period this morning, Mr W. H. Woodward, S.M., being on the bench. Sergeant Henry conducted the prosecution in the police cases, and Mr L.Hlunt in the civil breaches. Robert Familton, charged with failing to make a compulsory stop when approaching a railway crossing was fined the sum of £1 with costs amounting to 10s. On November 15, 1934, the fire alarm at flie corner of Union and High. Streets was set in motion by John Frahm, aged 18 years, who appeared in answer to the charge. Represented by Mr A. K. North, he pleaded guilty. Sergeant Henry, in prosecuting, explained that defandant had, according to his statement, placed the heel of his hand on the glass which had cracked it and set the alarm in motion. The sergeant said that according to the opinion expressed by Superintendent Morrison the glass could not have been: broken in the manner suggested by defendant. Mr North said that the glass had been broken when accused had been reading a dance notice attached to the post in the vicinity of the fire alarm. This procedure of attaching a poster in such a place was a stupid action on the part of the person responsible. Accused had been quite truthful and candid about the matter, and had an excellent character, as the sergeant had stated in all fairness to him. The magistrate said that he could aiot treat the matter leniently, and defendant would be convicted and fined £2 with 10s costs. An Indian fruiterer named Maken Bhana was arraigned under a chargo of a breach of the Health Act, in that—lie stored cases of tomatoes in a bedroom. The health inspector, Mr L. Hunt, explained what he had found on his visit to the shop in High Street, and said that such a state of affairs could not be allowed to exist. In extenuation Mr Geo. Chuck said that the storage was actually the fault of an employee, tne owner of tho shop being out of town a good deal. Accused was convicted and fined 30s with costs amounting to 10s. 011 the day of the visit to Hawera of the Duke of Gloucester William George Gibson drove horses within a prohibited area, an area which was roped off under the regulations. Gibson had ridden behind a roped enclosure leading another horse and had proceeded along tlie footpath. There were a number of people in the vicinity, incluing children, and the procedure might have had serious consequences. Gibson was convicted and mulcted tlie sum of £1 and costs amounting to 10s. The magistrate remarked that the offence was a very high handed thing to do. Ronald George Wallis, for driving a car without being the holder of a driver’s license was convicted and fined 10s with costs 'of a similar amount. Phillip Wakeiin, for failing to give way to traffic approaching from the right was convicted and fined £2 with lCs costs. On a charge of failing to sound his horn Wakeiin was convicted and discharged.