MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 121, 7 May 1934, Page 6

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Cases at Napier To-day Police cases were heard before Mr E. L. Walton. S.M., at the Napier Magistrate’s Court this morning. Senior-Sergeant W. Pender prosecuted. Michael Charles Gallagher, a labourer, aged 44, was charged with being intoxicated while in charge of a car. Gallagher saj,d he was not actually driving, but was switching the car switches off and on. His son was in charge, ho said, but Constable Grove gave evidence that Gallagher's sun denied this. The occurrence took place at 12.35 a.m. to-day, in Dickens street. The constable said that when the defendant had stepped out of the car his steps were unsteady and his breath smelled of alcohol. —Fined £2 and costs, and prohibited from driving for a period of six months. Walter Horton, labourer, pleaded guilty to stealing 3/- worth of timber from a building in Tennyson street. The senior-sergeant said that timber had been missed from this building.— Fined £5 and costs. Roy Cruickshank was found unJawA, liill.v in the Union Hotel at Port Aliurirj on March 4. When accosted by Constable Williamson, accused said he had gone in to telephone some friends at Riverbend road, though there was a telephone box nearby.—Fined £1 and costs. William G. Bartlett, a service car driver, was charged with using a sevenseafer car, unlicensed, on the Bay View road, anil one not authorised to bo. used on that run. The police alleged that the car was also unregistered. With Bartlett were arraigned Frederick Springfield for aiding and abetting, and Harold L. Lucena, for aiding him. Springfield pleaded not guilty and Lucena guilty Sergeant Claasen said that on March 29 Constable Waldon saw Bartlett driving a car which had been substituted for one regularly on the run. The second car was unlicensed. He was driving it because he borrowed it from a man named Anderson, when the licensed one broke down. An officer of the Post and Telegraph Department said the number plates were "jopkeyed about” from one vehicle to the other. Springfield, said the sergeant, was tho owner of the plates and should have known what happened to them, but the Magistrate said the charge against him would be dismissed. Lucena said he loaned the car to Bartlett because there were passengers waiting on the road. —Bartlett was lined £2 and costs on the charge of driving an unlicensed motor vehicle, and convicted and ordered to pay costs on the count of using an unlicensed and unregistered car. Lucena was convicted and ordered to pay 10/- and costs. Arthur Baucham Hayward was convicted and fined £1 and costs for driving his car without lights at night time.