MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 30 May 1930, Page 2

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

POLICE CASES ■! ' At the Magistrate’s Court this morning, Mr T. E. Maunsell, S.M., was on the bench. Keith Hickson (Mr S. Moynagh) licensee of the. Royal Hotel was fined £4, costs 10s, for selling liquor after the closing fio'ur. Thomas Atkins, Sydney McDonald and John Naylor were each fined £2, costs 10s, for being on the Royal Hotel premises after hours. George Rimms was fined 10s, costs 10s, for being found on licensed premises after the legal closing time. Thomas Skelsy was fined £1 and costs 10s for being found on licensed premises after closing hours. Efe sent a letter to Court expressing regret.

BREACHES OF MOTOR REGULA-

TIQNS

George Frost pleaded guilty to a change of driving a motor cycle at Richmond without a sufficient silencer. He was fined £2, costs 10s. John Thomas W. Hatton was charged with a similar offence and he also was fined £2, costs 10s. The defendant told the Magistrate that the cycle was not a. noisy one. The Magistrate then asked Constable O’Neill, who gave the information, if the cycle was a very noisy one. The constable’s reply “You could hear it three miles away, Sir,” caused much amusement in the Court.

T. A. Burton pleaded guilty to "cutting” the corner at the intersection of Bridge and Trafalgar streets. The re,sult was that the car he was driving knocked over a, cyclist.; He was fined £l, costs 13s. ' ' “POM” AS CATTLE DQG? Wilfred Pope . (Mr S. Moynagh) was charged with failing to register a dog. Mr Moynagh explained that defendant registered a pomeranian: dog as a sheep or cattle dog, claiming that any class of dog coTild work cattle.

Mr W. Owen (for the Richmond Borough Council) said that the dog in question was “a little ball- of fluff, about so long” (indicating the. length between his hands). The Borough Council considered it a hare-faced attempt to save 7s Cd in the registration of the dog.

A fine of 10s, costs 10s) was imposed.