Fines and Penalties

Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 173, 25 July 1939, Page 9

Fines and Penalties

MAGISTRATE’S COURT PROCEEDINGS Mr. H. P. Lawry, S.M., presided at the sitting of tho Magistrate’s Court in Palmerston North yesterday. Ivan W. T. Jewett admitted a charge of being iu a state of intoxication while driving a car. He knocked a girl off her bicycle in Foxton Lino but she did not suffer any serious injury. A line of £ls with £1 3s costs was imposed and Jewett’s license was cancelled, for 12 months. G. A. Brewster paid a penalty of SGs with 10s costs for riding a bicycle at night without a light. N. W. Bruco had no license to drive a motor-cycle, for which he paid a penalty of 10s with 10s costs. For not having a warrant of fitness for the machine he was fined £1 with 10s costs. T. G. V. HinckL»u, charged with driving without due care and attention, was fined £1 with 13s costs. For having no driver’s license he was fined 10s with 10s costs. Defendant collided with a lamp standard in the Square, smashing it off at the base. R. R. Smith was fined 10s with 12s costs for riding a bicycle at night without a light. For having no red reflector he was also fined 10s with 10s costs. R. W. Stevens, charged with exceeding the speed limit of 25 m.p.li. with a lorry, was fined £4 with 10s costs, and for travelling over the white lines he was fined £1 with 10s costs. According to Traffic Inspector Hartigan, defendant overtook a long line of cars during heavy rain at a speed of 50 m.p.h. T. W. Madgwick, who drove at 40 m.p.h. a truck limited to 25 m.p.h. was fined £3 with 10s costs. Traffic Inspec tor Hartigan said defendant had two previous convictions for speeding. For having no tail-light defendant was fined 5s with 10s costs. Charge of Assault Edward Iveeley, a carpenter, was* charged with assaulting Constable Han sen in tho course of his duty. The latter, in evidence, said he wa* called to tho house of accused’s motliei because of domestic trouble* Keeley was there and had taken up an aggres sive attitude which ended in accused striking witness on the ear and then rushing to the kitchen for a fire shovel to continue the attack. To Mr. Ongley, the constable said that when he saw Keeley coming at him he took his coat off ready for the fray, and there was a scuffle. Accused* in evidence, said the scuffle took place in his bedroom, into which the constable had no right to come without a warrant, and, further, when told to leave, should have gone. It was an attempt to put the constable out that had led to the scuffle. To Senior-Sergeant Mclntyre accused said that ”to all intents and purpose the house was his though legally it belonged to his mother. He denied that he had been absusive to his mother and often went home the worse for liquor. If the constablo had left the room he would, have been satisfied.

Mrs, Keeley declared there had be*, no domestic difference on the night in question as between her husband and his mother—it was all in the latter’s imagination. K&eley was in bed when Constable Hansen came into the room, and they saw no reason for tho constablo coming at all. His Worship held that the constable was clearly in the house in 1 the course of his duty and imposed a 4ue of £5. Early Morning Fight Albert Scott and John Edward James faced the Magistrate, charged With assaulting each other. The case was the sequel of, an early morning fight in the yard of the Royal Hotel, Palmerston North, following a “night out.” Evidence was given that muck blood had been spilled. Mr. Ongley and Mr. Rowe, who appeared for accused, submitted that the fight had been by invitation and as such could not be described as assaults. His Worship said there was no evidence to determine who had been the aggressor. The charges would be dismissed.