MAGISTRATE’S COURT.
NAPIER. MONDAY. •(Before AL-. S. E. McCarthy. S.M.) 1 DRUNKENNESS.
■ A first offender for drunkenness ’ was fined 22 - or 24 hours. John Kerr was charged with being I helplessly drunk 4) Dannevirke and j was fined £3 and costs 13 6, in de fault seven davs imprisonment. ' IN POSSESSION GF OPIUM. Joe Chung, a Chinaman, was ■•ii.-irg(d with having opium in his po.ssi ssion in a form suitable Icr smoking. Aceuscii pleaded not guilty and was remanded Io Vi e’lington on Friday. Bail was allowed in ‘accused’s own recognisance for £l<ib and two suret'Os for £5O each. TRUANCY.. ! George Miller was charged with failing to send his son to school ns 'required by the Education Act. Mr. Humphrtys appeared for the board and Air. Do’an for the defe.i■dant. Air. Dolan pleaded guilty, but. explained that the mother felt the boy i had been unjustly punished and that ' was whv she kept the lad at home. His Worship said tliai_ if the lad had been unduly punished the remedy was to pro-cod by action for assault. The punishment had nothing to do with the present er.se.- : Fined 5 - and costs 17 6.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume III, Issue 4, 16 December 1912, Page 3
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