MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 18141, 5 July 1919, Page 11

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

OHRISTCHtTRCH. ' Mr T. A. B. Bailey, S.M., presided at yesterday's sitting of the Magistrate's Court. Mary Reynolds, a second offender, was fined 10s, in default forty-eight hours' imprisonment. Thomas Andrews, alias Andrew Semb, charged with obtaining £2 7s 6d by means of a valueless cheque, and with attempting to obtain sums of £4 14s arid £4 10s by similar means, was remanded for a week. Peter Vickery (Mr Twyneham) pleaded riot guilty to a charge of having obtained liquor during the currency 'of a prohibition order. He also appeared for sentence on a similar charge on which he had been convicted and ordered to come up for sentence when called upon. The Magistrate, after hearing the evidence of Constable Dunnett, the accused, his wife, turn lis employer, warned accused that if he persisted in drinking ho would be sent to Roto Rtoa. As ho had been shown to bo nn excellent worker and workers were difficult to get, he would be given another chance. A fine of 40s and costs on each charge was- imposed. For having ridden cycles without lights attached to them, Adam Main and Douglas Cox were convicted and discharged. , , William Growcott was convicted and discharged for a similar offence m reVct of tt motor-cycle. For having ,jj Itn a motor-cycle on the footpath he w."'" ff'ed 20s and costs. Arthur V 'nnett, who did not antjear, was fined #O3 and costs for having cycled at nigi.t without a light. ' Henry Nicholls pleaded ignorance of the by-iaw requiring motor-cycles to be ridden at a walking pace between the kerb and the tramway lines when a t'ramcar is setting down or taking up passengers. He was fined IDs and M'Cann and Cecil H. Cresswell, who had left vehicles after nightfall without lights attached to them, ware each fined 10s and costs. John Mnckie, who pleaded ignorance of the local by-laws as he had only recently arrived from Australia, was convifted and discharged on a charge- oi having left a motor-car unattended m Hereford Street 1 . On a further charge of leaving the car without lights attached to it he was fined 6s and coats. D L. Rutherford, who did not appear, was fined 10s and costs for having left a motor-car unattended outside Broadway's. ______