LOCAL AND GENERAL

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXX, Issue 4844, 12 May 1936, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

On charges of being drunk and disorderly, two young men were fined 10s and costs by Mr. J. Tammadge, J.P., in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday. Both were first offenders.

“Mother’s Day” was observed in St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church at the Sunday morning’s service. A large congregation attended, nearly all wearing white flowers, and an appropriate address was given by Rev. W. T. Brabyn on “As Tribute to Mother.”

A large number of American tourists are to spend June, July and August in New Zealand, according to reports supplied to the New Zealand Tourist League by the Matson Line. Usually the winter is very quiet in New Zealand from a tourist standpoint, and if the scheme of bringing American visitors here at that period succeeds it should be of considerable benefit to resorts and transport services catering for that trade.

According to the decision of Mr. J. Miller, S.M., at the Hastings Magistrate’s Court last Wednesday, a person who is being double-banked on a bicycle which is not properly lighted at night is equally culpable with the man in the saddle. The ruling arose as the result of the prosecution of Ivor Eagle and Robert Lyall Murrell, who were charged with riding a bicycle without a light. Murrell said that he was on the bar at the time and questioned whether he could be held responsible for the breach. “You were aiding and abetting at any rate,” said his Worship, and imposed a fine of 15s, with 10s costs, on each defendant. A similar fine was imposed on Hollis Rose, who was also charged on the same count.