POLICE COURT NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16489, 15 March 1917, Page 7

POLICE COURT NEWS.

, BREACH OF STAMP ACT. ' At the Police Court yesterday, before Mr F V. Frazer, S.M., an old man, Frederick Shearer, admitted giving a receipt for £8 10s to Arthur Shepherd without affixing the necessary stamps, thereby committing a breach of the Stamp Act. Chief-Detective McMahon said accused sold a boat to some young men who paid a deposit of £8, receiving a stamped receipt. When the final payment was 1 made, accused erased the words on » account" on the old receipt and altered , the figures from £8 to £16 10s, without ! affixing new stamps. • 1 The defendant said he had no stamps 1 in the house, and being late at night he 1 was unable to obtain any. i The magistrate said probably the accused > had infringed the law unintentionally. ' He would deal leniently with him by in- ' flicting a fine of 10s and costs. SALE OF AMMUNITION. ; A young man, Walter S. Armiger, was i charged with having on December 28, i 1916, sold ammunition for a firearm to a , bov under 16 years of age. [ The bov said he had bought a l pound of BB shot from the defendant at a shop. Defendant had not asked his age ' or what the ammunition was for. . The defendant pleaded not' guilty, and i said he had n,o recollection of the occur- ' rence. It was customary for business men ! to send their boys for the shot for other . purposes than shooting ' Mr. Frazer said when a boy asked Tor ' shot it was necessary to ascertain what it was for. The defendant was convicted and ordered to pay costs. , DEFENCE CASES. A senior cadet, Archibald McGee, was 1 fined £3 and 12s costs for failing to render ' personal service bv wilfully obstructing 1 parades. Wm. J. V. Maher, for failing ' to attend drill from June, 1916, to Peb- » ruary, 1817, was fined £2 and costs. i > MISCELLANEOUS. 1 For driving a motor-car • after sunset 1 without lights, Stanley Fulljames was con--1 victcd and ordered to pay costs. A fine " of £3, with 76 costs, was inflicted on Fred " Watergtran for a third breach of his pro- ' hibition order. James A. Newman was 1 fined ss, with 7s costs, for allowing a f horse to wander on a public road, and » Frederick Collins, for allowing a cow to J wander, was fined Is and ordered to pay > costs. 1 -