COURT NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 6 December 1940, Page 8

COURT NEWS

ASSAULT CHARGE

(Per Press Association— Copyright)

CHRISTCHURCH, December 5,

ltoy Clifford Pullar, aged 36,' an electrician employed at Wigrani aerprdronie by the Public Works Department, was convicted oh A charge of assaulting a woman oh December'3rd;, and iVas lined £l.

FAILURE TO CLEAR GORSE

CHRISTCHURCH, December 5

Fines of £lO each for failing to clear gorse from their property near Worsley’s track (near the Cashmere Estate) were imposed on Robert Angus Brown and John George Brown, brothers, and joint owners of the property, by Sir H. A. Young S.M., in the Magistrate’s -Court, yesterday, Mr A. C. Perry, who represented the Hcatlicbte County Ootuicil, said that both defendants had been served with notices to clear the gorse from their 87-odd acres, and had, failed to do so thereby failing to comply with the Noxious Weeds Act. For similar offences they had vbeen fined 30s each, 18 months ago, arid £5 each 12 months ago. ••■ - 1 The county foreman (Mr W. W. Scarff) gave evidence. In fining the defendants, the Magistrate issued a warning that the maximum penalty was £SO.

whitebaiter convicted

CHRISTCHURCH, December 5. A submission by counsel that the Whitebait Regulations were “(shockingly inconsistent” and his criticism of a prosecution brought at a time when Amendments were under consideration, were not upheld by Mr H. A. Young, S.M., in his decision on a case heard in the Magistrate’s Court, yesterday. Ho convicted the defendant, Herbert Brown, on three charges of breaking the regulations, and ordered payment of costs on each. The charges against Brown were that on September 14th., at New Brighton (1) he used a boat for fishing for whitebait in a river (the Avon) 'in which groynes or similar contrivances were used; (2) h'e unlawfully used a device tending to prevent or divert the movement of whitebait up or down stream; and ’ (3) he unlawfully used a set net to take whitebait in the Avon.