MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Hokitika Guardian, 10 December 1940, Page 6

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

SITTING AT GUEYMOUTH GREYMQUH December 10. At the Magistrate’s Court yesterday i- business dealt with by Mr G. G. y Chisholm, S.M., included the followc iug: e Alexander Denmade Boyd was charg. e ed with having received the sums of n £3 5s 9d, £2 2s Od and £3 Is 6d, i- on terms requiring him to account T for them, thereby committing theft, e Accused pleaded guilty to the ehargo es and elected to he dealt with e summarily. d Accused said that he had been in e New Zealand for 15 years, and coni’ sidered that, during that time, be had e rendered valuable service to the i, country and the community. He had [. suffered a nervous breakdown two w years ago and a peculiar reaction had rendered him immobile when he was :e worried. He has no intention of tlt?ft y, and had intended to forward all the orders together. He had used a little g o‘" the money for his keep, and intt tended to send it at once, it The S.M.: Iff seems that you were g short of money and just used it as ;1 _ you received it. T will take into account that you have made restitution. , n Tn reply to the S.M., the Detective[r Sc-rgeant said that there was no 3 f suggestion of drinking on accused’s t, part. It was more hard luck and u_ carelessness. •y Accused was admitted to prohation xt for 12 months, on the condition that y hot made restitution of £8 14s 6d, a being the amount concerned in the n . chargee, plus sales tax. TRAFFIC OFFENCES’" ” °> Erneht James (Burr was charged s ' with riding |a motor-cycle, without 10 being the holder of a motor vehicle driver’s license. rs Defendant was fined £l, with 12/n " costs. Charles George Wesley was charge- ed with driving without being the 1 10 holder of a driver’s license and also rs with driving a car not equipped, with two headlights. a On the charge of not having a bt driver’s license, defendant was fined it, £1 with 10/- costs. Referring to, .the sd second charge, the S.M. said it--.was be not the usual case where a sudden id fault might he developed, but there ?• was neither glass nor bulb in the as headlamp .Defendant would be fined Dh £1 jlOs, with 13s costs, and 6s 8d be witness’s expenses, m Hugh Sutherland Valentine was x- charged with driving without being in the holder of a-driver’s license and ut also with not having a warrant of e- fitness for a motor car. is Defendant was fined £l, with 10s ct ocysts, on the first charge and 10s to with 10s on the second, n- David Methven was charged, with is not having a warrant of fitness for a n- motor car, and was convicted and rs ordered to pay 10s costs, if . Dudley,. Mervyn Rathbun was e- charged with (1) having no warrant is of fitness, (2) driving a motor truck t, without an effective warning device, n- (3; parking on the offside of ie another stopped vehicle in Tairi'ui r-~ Street, iie. i On the charge of having no warrant id of fitness defendant was fined 10s p- with 10* costs. Referring to the is charge of double-parking, the S.M. i-, said that if persons were permitted If .to choose when they could break ie that .regulation, - ( it /would cause a is great amount of inconvenience. Oh m that charge, defendant would also, be 't fined 10s. with 10s costs; The charge r- of having no effective warning den vice would be dismissed for want of ;e- prosecution. For allowing a cow and calf to r- wander on the main highway at ir South Beach, Thomas Lalor was fined n 10s with 10s costs, e Making a voluntary appearance and -'pleading guilty, Cyril Heaphy was firil'd 10s; with 3s hosts for cycling at night without a light. Jean Teale and Ellen Duffy, who did not appear, were each firied 5s with 10s costs, for the same offence. - John Baty was charged with em- - ploying An unlicensed driver to drive - a motor truck, and with aiding . and' abetting the offence of the . driver in failing to report an accident. Defendant pleaded guilty to both - I charges. On the first charge defendant was fined £1 with 10s costs, and on the second was similarly fined the S.M remarking that if there was personal injury in an accident, however slight, the onus was on the driver to report, and it would not do to allow any laxity in the.matter. A 15-year-old boy, who was the driver of the truck involved, was dealt with in the Children’s Court, on charges of having no driver’s license, failing to report the accident, and of negligent driving, and was admonished and discharged. On the information of the Transport Department Inspector'Mr D. D. Burdett), Arthur Thomas Gibson and Bruce Thomas were were each fined £1 10s with 12s costs, for exceeding the 30 miles per hour speed restriction in the Brunner Borough. Arthur Cresswell Jolly pleaded guilty to exceeding the same restriction in the Hokititka Borough, and was also fined £1 10s with 10s costs. For :not having /a motor vehicle driver’s license ,Neil McGrath, who did not appear, was fined £1 with j 12s costs. i Herbert Oswald Kear was charged on the information of Inspector Bur- \ dett, with narking on the wrong side of the road opposite Wmgham Park 5

atd with parking in a prohibited area at the same plate. Defendant was fined 10s with 10s costs on each charge. - NO INCOME TAX RETURN Uj f■' , , . . . v * ..On the information of the Commissioner of Taxes, for whom Mr F. A Kit'chingham appeared, Albert Harol ( ] Lawn was charged with fa.iling. * to furnish a /return of incomeW ■' A, R. Elcock,-appeared for defendant' and .entpipd a plea of guilty. / • Mr -KitcJnngjiam, said that the 1 prosecution was one of a number taken .tfirpughptut. New Zealand for tlip, purpose of publicity_ It appeared that a great, nttmber of people .made default in compiling a return Within the required, period, resulting in the Department'making a defaiilt asThen the taxpayer immediately , got .busy and put in a return and thus did the work he should h a V e '; done earlier,V The Departs ment was ' put to a great deal of inconvenience; in the and wished to stop the practice; The prospention ..was designed to secure publicity, hut, there, was a minimum penalty, of §2 fixed hy the Act. Mr Elcoofei' said that, defendant- was taken • seriously ill and it was - not. until the . beginning s of April that he cou]d ,)respmel!p , Qrh. J !1 the meantime, ■ a mnijililr rpW’his ■cheque buttsbvoucheip,!' -*’■ ; had:, been.. destroyed,, arid jripm‘-tdrp-c !l ing. : ;tp his, <pas& *b6ok,v. duSKt'j i ; V: that only numbers- were' Ph'pWb-Sd thrif lie could • not quake Under \ the circumstances' V thfeVCmissioubr ■ had . been asked an. assessment, whichdefendant;/ A would pay. ‘ Defendant wap fined - £2,‘,wit,h’. Court posts, arid;- £T!,is 0d ‘C ■tort’s.f|e. . .. ' •