MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 102, 30 March 1926, Page 10

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

YESTERDAY’S BUSINESS’.

BREACHES OF THE BY-LAWS

Mr J. L. Stout, S.M;, presided over yesterday’s sitting of the Magistrate’s Court.

For carrying a passenger on the rear of his motor-cycle, Sidney Charles Chapman was fined 10/-, with costs 7/-. Mervyn Needham, for exceeding the speed limit in tho inner area, was mulcted in tho sum of £2 with costs 7/-. The same delenda.nt, on a vuither charge that lie nad failed to observe the rules of tlio road at the intersection of Broad ' street and ihe Square, was 10/-, with costs 7, -. A. de Batho Brandon, charged with leaving a motor car stationary for longer than ten minutes otluer than on an appointed stand, was fined 10/- with costs 7/-, and for failing to leave the vehicle with proper lights. was mulcted in the further sum of £l, with costs 7/-. On tho information of the borough traffic manager (Mr P. 0. Patton) Jack Stevenson, for carrying a passenger on the rear of his motor-cycle, was fined £l, with costs 7/-. Appearing voluntarily on a charge of cycling without a light, Moiston Henderson was fined 10/- with costs 2/-. BREACHES OF DEFENCE ACT.

A charge that, on February 8, being a member o fa cadit unit, namely, No. 28 Company Senior Cadets, he did fail to perform military exercises with due diligence, and also subordination were prefered against Leo Maurice Dennan, who pleaded guilty and was fined £2, with costs 9/-. On a further charge of failing to attend drib, Dennan was fined £2 with costs < /-. Sergeant Major Harvey, of the Defence Department, stated that defendant had repeatedly failed to attend drill in liis uniform and one night had been tho ringleader of a number ql boys who had thrown stones at a privatc car in Cuba street. AVith legald to the second information, defendant had missed seven night drills and several lialf-day parades. SPEEDING IN GORGE.

For exceeding the speed limit of 15 miles per hour in the Manawatu Gorge on February 24 the following motorists wero each fined £5, with costs £1 8/-: James Muir (Dannevirke), A. John Burchell (Wanganui), James Burr (Palmerston North), C. G. Finn (Palmerston North), Albert Allen (Gisborne), Ernest A. Twjgg (Feilding), Bert Galloway. (Shannon), Ray Bailey (Feilding) . and Ivor Watkins 1 (Levin). Paul Hansen, of Palmerston North, contested an information against him. Evidence was given by four employees of Die Manawatu Gorge Road Board of Control that motorists had been timed over a measured quarter of a mile on February 24 and had been given tlio benefit ■ of an extra chain. Defendant had covered the distance in 41secs or 41 l-ssecs, equivalent to 22 miles per hour. 11l evidence, defendant stated that he had been driving very carefully because of prosecutions by the board the day before. He did not think that he had exceeded 15 miles per hour, and it ivas possible that a mistake might have been made by the board’s employees in not noticing him soon enough. , The magistrate told defendant that the weight of the evidence was against him and imposed a fine of £5, with costs £3 8/-. Mr Cooke appeared for tho Gorge Board. MAINTENANCE BREACH. James Henry Pooley, who was £42 15/- in arrears in connection with a maintenance order, was sentenced to two months’ imprisonment wutli hard labour, tho warrant to bo suspended so long as he complies with the order and pays 2/6 per week off the arrears.