Feilding Magistrate’s Court

Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 96, 26 April 1939, Page 3

Feilding Magistrate’s Court

miscellaneous cases Mr. K." M. Watson, S.M., presided over the sitting of the Feilding Magistrate’s Court ou Monday morning. Desmond Kelly, a slaughterman, of no fixed abode, who was found at 2.15 a.m. on April 24, 1939, in the Manchester Hotel stable* without lawful excuse under circumstances that did not disclose the commission or intention to commit an offence, was discharged on the condition that he took out a prohibition order. Kelly said ho had work to go to and the magistrate remarked that he would give him a chance. Valentine Thomas Hitching?, of Palmerston North, charged with placing glajs in Bowen Street on March 25, pleaded not guilty. The incident, said Constable Strawbridge, had occurred on the morning following the polo ball. Defendant had made no effort to pick up the broken glass after he bad kicked a bottle lying in the street and be and another constable had been compelled to clear it up so that it would not be a nuisance to cars. The Bench imposed a fine of £1 and costa 10s. A charge of driving without due care and attention was preferred against Hilda Penruddocke Kiehardson, married woman, of Cunninghams, and she was fined £1 ss, costs being fixed at 12s. Alfred Edwafd Prujean, transport operator, of Apiti, for overloading a passenger vehicle on March 3, was fined £2 and costs were fixed at 12s. David Edward Heap, of Palmerston North, was fined 3Us and 12s costs for exceeding the speed limit in Feilding on March 19.

By remitting all arrears up to date, a maintenance order in favour of Martha Chandler, of Feilding, was varied on the application of Herbert Frederic Chandler, of Taurangn. The amount of the order was not altered.