POLICE COURT NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16309, 16 August 1916, Page 5

POLICE COURT NEWS.

♦ —i— SHORT-WEIGHT BREAD. ! MOUNT EDEN BAKER FINED. A baker named R. Cowan, who sold a loaf of bread weighing three-quarters of an ounce less than 21b, was fined £5 and costs 9s in the Police Court by Mr. F. V. Frazer, S.M., yesterday. Sub-Inspector Mcllveney stated that when the inspector called at the defendant's shop in Mount Eden Road he bought a loaf purporting to weigh 21b,' which was found to weigh threequarters of an ounce less. Six other loaves were also short in weight. Mr. Rogerson, for defendant, said that the oven had been over-heated, with the result that the bread had lost weight. He said that this was the first occasion that the inspector had cause to complain of defendant's bread, although regular inspections had been made. Mr. Frazer said that if a person asked for a 21b loaf he was entitled to get it, and that the Act provided for the sale of a '; short-weight loaf so long as the baker told the buyer that it did not weigh the proper amount. In this case he would not advertise the conviction, but would fine defendant £5 and costs. If cases of this sort continued to come before him, however, he would have to consider advertising convictions again. YOUNG MAN'S LAPSE. _ A young man named Nathaaiel Cameron Gow admitted stealing five guns and a clock, of the total value of £6, the property of A. J. Entrican and Go., also a plane, a chisel, and a painter's knife, valued at 10s, the property of Alfred Warner. Chief-Detective McMahon stated that the accused had been employed by Entrican and Co., and while there he stole the goods mentioned and sold them. The other articles had evidently been stolen from other places. It was hard to understand, said Mr. McMahon, why accused had stolen the goods. He was a married man with one or two children, and belonged to a most respectable familv. Defendant said that he had been out of work and was hard up. The magistrate said that he understood from the probation officer that this vas a proper case for probation, and accordingly he would grant probation for two years. In addition to the usual conditions accused would also be required to refund the value of the stolen goods; to pay over his earnings to the probation officer, and also to provide the probation officer with a detailed account of his liabilities. MISCELLANEOUS. Gustive Anderson was ordered to pay 5s per week towards the support of his adopted child at the Weraroa Training Farm. Owing to his failure to comply with an order of maintenance Michael Conga was sentenced to 14 days' imprisonment, the warrant to be held in abeyance so long as the payments are kept up and 5s a week paid off the arrears. William Albert Johnson was sentenced to seven days' imprisonment for fsttmg to comply with a maintenance order, the i warrant to be suspended if £3 arrears are j paid off within one month. I Charles Fisher Gardiner was convicted j and ordered to pay costs for failing to have his motor properly lighted.