MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 263, 5 October 1936, Page 4

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

BREACHES OF BY-LAWS. Mr J. L. Stout, S.M., presided over the sitting of the Magistrate’s Court at Palmerston North to-day. Fines of 10s, with 3s costs,- were imposed on J. Brice, D. W. Bush, S. H. Cummings (Kairanga) and C. A. Grundy for riding unlighted cycles at night. For a similar offence J. L. Liggins was fined 10s, with 10s costs. For crossing the railway line in the Square when an engine was approaching, C. M. Gilray, of Massey College, was fined £2, with 3s costs. A penalty of £l, with 10s costs, was inflicted on R. Sinclair for cycling on the footpath. M. A. Bird was charged with failure to give way to traffic approaching from the right at the intersection of Albert and Ferguson Streets on September 10. Mr A. M. Ongley appeared for defendant and entered a plea of guilty, stating that defendant had been travelling slowly, but had been involved in a collision with a car driven by a mgn named Simpson. Defendant was fined £2, with 10s costs. A CASE REMANDED. Keith Ambrose Carroll, a labourer, aged 34, of Hunterville, appeared on a charge that on September 27, at Palmerston North, he did forge a cheque drawn on the Union Bank of Australia, Ltd., at Feilding, for £lB 12s. On the application of Detective Compton, who stated that there were further inquiries to be made, accused was remanded to appear again on October 12. MISCELLANEOUS CASES. P. MeAvinue, for a breach of a prohibition order, was lined £l, without costs. E. F. Stratton was fined £2, with 10s costs, on a charge of committing a nuisance. On the application of his wile, a prohibition order was made against R. S. Rainey. UN USUAL CIRCUMSTANCES. ■F. Clarke, of Rangiwahia, for whom Mr Ongley appeared, was charged with driving a motor vehicle in tne Square at a speed which, having regard to all the circumstances, might nave been dangerous to the public. Senior-Sergeant Moriarty stated that defendant had backed out too fast from the kerb and narrowly escaped a collision. Counsel said that twice when defendant backed his car it inexplicably shot across the road. Later, he found that a rubber mat had been jainbing the accelerator. Defendant was fined £l, with 10s costs, on this charge, also 10s, with 10s costs, on another charge ot failing to possess a driver’s license. SEQUEL TO COLLISION. F. T. Simpson, of Bulls, for whom Air Mackay appeared, was fined £2, with 10s costs, on a charge of driving a car in Albert Street.’ on September 10 at a speed which, haying regard to all the circumstances, might have been dangerous to the public. It was stated that a collision had occurred with another car at the intersection with Ferguson Street. The Magistrate held that though it was not a had case, defendant had been travelling too fast. MAINTENANCE CASE.

Stated to be £6 7s 6d in- arrears on a maintenance order, R. A. Tudor, of Blenheim, was sentenced to one month’s imprisonment, the warrant to be suspended as long as ho complied with the current order and , pays 10s weeklv off tho arrears.