WANTED CASE HEARD BEFORE MAGISTRATE.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 22 March 1938, Page 2

WANTED CASE HEARD BEFORE MAGISTRATE.

SUT J.P.’S REFUSE AFPLICATT DA (By Telegraph—Press Association). ROTORUA, Last JNiight. An indication that the Police Department has instructed its officers in cases of charges of intoxication against motorists to .apply for a remand so that the case could be heard before a Stipendiary Magistrate rather than Justices of the Peace was given i j S’cnior-Sergeant Carroll in the Rotorua Police Court this morning when applying for the remand of a case involving a charge of drunken driving against Victor Thomas Gordon, a contractor. The application for the remand, which was made to two Justices of the Peace, was strongly opposed by counsel for Gordon, and the senior-sergeant thereupon stated that he had been instructed in these cases, where a Magistrate was likely to be available within fourteen days, to apply for a remand so that the Magistrate could hear the case. The Bench, however, decided, after hearing counsel’s representations, to proceed with the case. Gordon, who pleaded guilty, was fined £2O and had his license cancelled until May; 1940. He agreed to ;he issue of a prohibition order against himself.