MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 196, 21 July 1941, Page 6

MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

DIISCELLANEOUS CASES.

Dir 11. P. Lawry, S.M., presided at a sitting of the Magistrate's Court to-day. dairies Henry iiowarth pleaded guilty to a charge of being intoxicated wtiiic in charge of a motor-car in Racecourse Road on July 19. Sergeant Brown said defendant bud not been in trouble previously A line of £lO was imposed, defendant's driving license was cancelled anil he was loibuidon to laKo out another lor 12 months. The costs wero £1 Is. R. li. Bent, of Palmerston North, was charged with the theft, at Foxton, on Diay 7, ot £1 7s, the properly of tiie Foxton Amateur Athletic Club and another. The Magistrate commented that as accused had nine children there would Lie a big burden oi: the Stale if he were sent to gaol. Accused was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if called on within 12 months. G. 11. S. Long (Dir A. AY. Y'ortt) was fined 30s, with 12s costs, for failing to give way to traffic on the right at an in*, tefscol.ion I. E. Rowland, lor driving at over 30 miles an hour in tho city area, was lined £l. with 12s costs; and for driving without a license, £l, with 10s costs. Sergeant Brown said defendant stated ho had driven a ear for ten years and had not had a license at any time L. Sim was charged with driving over the railway lino in tho Square when it was not clear, and also with driving when not the. holder of ft driver’s license. Defendant said ho did not sco the train or the warning lights, nor did he hear tho hells, lie hint been refused a driver's license at the City Counoi' office and told to secure it at tho Manawatu County Council office, where ho had taken out his previous license. -the Magistrate imposed a fine of £ft only oil Uie First charge (as deletulatit crossed tho lino at only five miles an hour), and 10s on the second charge. The total costs were £1 2s. A lino of iZ, with 10s costs, was imposed on C. R. Carter, charged with unlawfully converting a cycle to Ins own use. N. K. Laverty was fined £l, with 10s costs, on a charge under the I ohec o(lienees Act, M. Lucinsky was fined £2, with 11s costs for trespassing oil the Awapun racecourse, when prohibited *ro m doiii" “o J L Wallace was fined £2, with 11s costs, for not displaying an “L 'sign plate on a motor-cycle when ho was required to do so, and £l, with 10s costa I lor exceeding 40 miles per hour when still , classified as a “learncr/V