POLICE COURT NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18233, 28 October 1922, Page 7

POLICE COURT NEWS.

ALLOWING GOR3E TO BPREAD FINE OF £5 IMPOSED. A breach of the Noxious Weeds Act was preferred against Benjamin E. Williams, who was charged at the Police Court yesterday, before Mr. J. W. Poynton, S.M., with having failed to prevent the spreading of gorte on • his property. The evidence showed that defendant had been warned about the position, but he had never carried out the instructions. For the prosecution, Mr. MoNab asked that a substantial penalty be imposed, as the Agricultural Department was anxious to prevent the spreading of gorse. Southern magistrates had imposed heavy fines On recent offenders. Defendant, who did not appear, was fined £5 and costs.

WORKING ON A SUNDAY. Two men, 3. Ellers and John Orr, were? charged -with having! worked at their, trade on a Sunday in trabli© view. Senior-Sergeant Bawle said the men were employed on ' Milne and Choyce's new building in Qwien Street; and wereseen working on the only entrance to the building, which had to be covered in. The magistrate said it was almost a ■work of necessity, and ordered the defendants to* pay costs. t ~ . AFFILIATION OASES. A young man, Henry Gilbert Richard Maney,' was charged with, having failed to maintain h.i« illegitimate child. The arrears of payment to June 30, 1922, amounted to £20 12s 6d. Accused said he had earned only £6 in the last six or seven months. A sentence of six months' imprisonment was imposed, the warrant to be suspended as long as current payment is maintained and 7s 6d a week paid oft arrears. Lionel Miller, whose real name Was stated to be Alfred James Clark, was charged with having nude inadequate provision for his unborn illegitimate child. Accused admitted paternity, but no order was made against him' as he is at present serving a term of imprisonment on another charge. -.-,:,., MISCELLANEOUS CASES: A fourth offender for drunkenness, John Henry Batemati, was sentenced to one month's imprisonment. ' ,For having trespassed on the Avondale racecourse, Charles Armstrong was fined £5. John Francis O'JKane {Dr. Fitchett); who was stated to he known to the police as a bookmaker, was fined a similar sum for having trespassed on the Ellerslie racecourse. For having cruelly ill-treated a horse by working it with a sore shoulder, Frederick McCaneaney was ordered to pay costs. An Indian, Dakya, was ordered to' pay costs for having cruelly ill-treated a horse by working It while it was 4ame. A .dispute between two neighbours resulted in an application by F. Kipke to have G. Kammell bound over to keep the peace.: The application was granted and defendant was bound over for 12 months in his own cognisance of £25.

SERIOUS CASE REMANDED. On a charge of having committed incest, Walter Williams, aged 57, was further remanded till Monday. '