POLICE COURT NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16971, 3 October 1918, Page 7

POLICE COURT NEWS.

—— ♦ _ ENTERING WHARF WITHOUT PASS A charge of entering the Queen's Wharf and disregarding the military guard's warning, was admitted by Bert Stokes in the Police Court, before Mr. F. K. Hunt, yesterday. Senior-Sergeant McNamara said defendant was a carter. He lost his pass and drove through the wharf sate, saying that the fen would "fix it up. When brought back ue admitted having lost the pas 3. Defendant was fined 10a and lis costs. For committing a nuisance, Horace C. James and Alfred 6. Walker were fined £1 each. Three first offending inebriates were dealt with. Frances S. Hewitt was fined £1 and 9s costs for a breach of her prohibition order. Breaches of by-laws resulted in the following penalties being imposed :— Wandering horses, Percy 0. Chapman, fined ss, costs 9s; Harold L. Howard, fined 10s. costs 9s; disobeying traffic constable, Herbert Burnie, ordered to pay 9s costs; attempted to board moving train, Alfred Burrows and George Williams, fined 10s and costs 7s leaving moving train, Evelyn Clarke, ordered to pay lis costs; motor unattended, Stenson H. Whitmarsh, fined 5s and costs lis; unlighted bicycle, A. B. Menzies, fined 5s and costs 9s; driving on wrong side, Arthur C.Grfbble. fined £1 and costs 21s. William J. J. Pringle, a reservist, was fined £2 and 9s costs for failing to notify his change of address. Neglect to attend drill resulted in James H. McFarlane, Harry M. Moore, and William H. Finey being each fined 10s and 7s costs. Martin A. Joyce was fined 10s and 35s costs for ill-treating a horse by beating it unmercifully.