MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 164, 13 June 1939, Page 6

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

BREACHES OF BY-LAWS. Mr. It. P. Lawrv. S.AL. presided over tho sitting of tho Magistrate's Court at Palmerston North yesterday. A penalty of £o, with 10s costs, was imposed oil Andrew Buckley Keen on a charge of driving over the West •Street railway crossing when the line was not clear. For riding an unliglited cycle at night, Alfred Arthur Gandcrton was lined. £T, with Us costs. M AIN’T FINANCE CASES. Henry White, farmer of To Toko, was sentenced to three mouths’ imprison men t for Irt'ing £l4 12s in arrears with maintenance due for bis child, the warrant to be suspended on the ( payment of arrears. Stated to be L-l 1. 2s 3d in arrears on an order for tho maintenance of his wife, and :Ll!> lls 3d for bis child, Bernard Bardcbes, of AVelliiigton. was sentenced to three months' imprisonment, the warrant lo be suspended as ' long ns 7s lid weekly is paid off the arrears on each order. Cecil A! on res Payne, a salesman, stated to be :L 112 in arrears for the I maintenance his wild and £34 10s for two children, was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment, the warrant to be suspended as long as lie pays os a week oil the arrears on each order. Stated to be £o os in arrears on a maintenance order. Douglas Francis Haig was sentenced to one month's imprisonment, the warrant to l?o suspended as long us lie pays os a week ufl the arrears. Reported to be £lO in arrears for the maintenance of his wife, and Lo 'ok for his children. Sidney .John Rice was sentenced to one month's imprisonment., the suspension of the warrant lo he conditional on the payment of 2s (id weekly off the arrears oil each order. John Silvan Beaumont, cook, aged 20. was fined £3 on a charge of assault. Senior-Sergeant Mclntyre said accused and another man, Angus Arnold Milne, visited an hotel after hours and thumped on the bar door. An employee answered the knock and, seeing the two men were somewhat under the infill onc-o of liquor, had tried to close it again only to get -a black eve. Guests at the hotel came to his aid and the men were turned away, but laler Beaumont tried to force an entrance by way. of the front door where there was further (rouble. On a charge of being on licensed promises after hours, Beaumont was fined £1 -with 13s costs, while! on a similar charge. M ilne, who ad-1 mitted a previous conviction of like nature, was fined £2 with 13s costs.