MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 117, 18 April 1939, Page 12

MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

BY-LAW CASES.

Mr H. I*. Lawry, S.DI., presided over the sitting of the Magistrate's Court at Palmerston North yesterday.

William Cunningham Gibson, labourer, iigcd 83, was lined £2, with 10s costs, on a charge of being found drunk and committing a breach of his prohibition order. A tine of lUs, with 2s costs, was imposed on Roy Leslie on a charge under the Police Offences Act.

Charged with driving a car from Main Street into Botanical Hoad without due care and attention, M. J. Thomas was fined £3, with 16s costs.

B. Williams and E. M. Youngson were each fined 10s, with 10s costs, for not possessing warrants of fitness for their motor vehicles. Stated to have travelled at 70 miles an hour in a high cross-wind, which was blowing his car from side to side of the road, and to have overtaken other traffic, A. E. ltutledge, farmer, of Kairanga, was fined £5. with 12s costs. l<’or not having a warrant of fitness for his car, defendant was fined £l, with 10s costs. Katherine Williams, of Hastings, was fiued £2, with 10s costs, on a charge of driving a ear at Whakarongo, on February 17, in a manner which might have been dangerous to the public. Defendant was stated to have cut out of a. line of race traffic and travelled abreast of another ear past an intersection at 40 miles an hour. Stated to have ridden a motor-cycle round the Square at night on March 23 without lights, and with three persons on the machine, which caused it to wobble, B. G. Seeley was fined 10s. with 12s costs, on the first charge of having no light, and £2, with 10s costs, for carrying .more than two persons on the machine. Mrs D. H. Jensen was charged with failing to give way to traffic approaching from the right at the intersection of Princess and Church Streets on March 11. Mr M. H. Oram appeared for defendant, who was fined £l, with 13s costs. T. R. Kelly, labourer, of Tokomaru, for whom Mr T. F. Belling appeared, was charged with driving a car in Cuba Street in a manner which might have been dangerous to the public. A fine of 30s, with 12s costs, was imposed- . . , , , Charged with driving without due care and attention in Ruahine Street on March 15, C. P. Perry, whose vehicle had been involved in a collision, was fined £l, with 26s costs. Defendant was represented by Mr G. E. Rowe. E. D. Tucker was charged with driving a motor-lorry without due care and attention in the Begent Arcade. After evidence had been heard the case was dismissed, the Magistrate commenting that a woman who had been knocked over by defendant s lorry while it was hacking out had not been looking where she was going. Pleas of guilty were entered by Frederick Moore, aged 46, to two charges of obtaining goods from stores in Palmerston North by falsely representing that he was employed by C. W. Tbevenard, of Kimbolton. Detective-Sergeant A. B. Meiklejohn (who prosecuted) stated that at the time of the alleged offences accused was not in the employ of Mr Tlievennrd. So far as the police knew, lie had not previously been in trouble. Fines of £3 were imposed on each charge, restitution of the amount involved within a month being ordered.