POLICE COURT NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18461, 26 July 1923, Page 5

POLICE COURT NEWS.

THEFT OF CIGARETTES, ** , ' '-—r • t . FINE OF £5 IMPOSED. : The theft -.four packets of r cigarettes,. i valued; at 3s, from a Victoria Street shop,,lV . was the charge £ against "William ; Knox, aged 51 : (Mr. Anderson), ; who - appeared . /• : at the : Police Courts yesterday before Mi 1 . J. W. Poynton, S.M. : For the defence it ;■ was stated that accused; had been drinking and went into a.' shop and : : took . the v/l cigarettes, although ho had plenty 01 money to pay for them. -Accused, who - had a:,long- list; of prwiouiii convictions, ' ■'.< I was fined £5, in defaultJ'4 - days' v imprisonment. STOVE POLISH STOLEN. A plea of. guilty, was entered by Thomas ' v George . Ward, , aged 23, . tola charge of. having stolen stove polish, valued •£$ Bs,. at Palmerston North, In a -statement, accused said .he was commissioned to soil ; stove polish "ft at . the Palmeratori ■ North • ?*■ Show. ! A quantity was not sold, ; however, and; this ha disposed of at Wood- ' : ville. He : kept-"the money, which lie had :!' site© spent. . Accused was remanded for. a, week for sentence.

' CASES ARISING FROM DRINK. i : Charges; of drunkenness and of having i resisted Constable Moore, wer« made ! v;, against < George Keenan,' aged 30, who said. >T~ : he had had a few drinks too many. He' was , fined £3," in default , seven days' im- • prisonment for . "resistance, and convicted • i and discharged for drunkenness. - - James Hedley, aged 52, r who was ; found in a state of helpless drunkenness, was ordered 'to pay 16s costs, in default 48' hours' imprisonment. • „ . :: • •' . DRUNK IN CHARGE OF CAR. A fine of £5 and 13s costs, was imposed '- on A. ■' M. Boundell, . a taxi-driver, ' for • r ? having been drunk in charge of a motorcar ia Symonds Street. A constable spoke to accused, 'who was then driven home by another taxi-driver. The masit;- /' trate said it v,is ; a '!serious matter. r, One- ' month's imprisonment was ordered "in/default of payment. , .i 1 ; LABOUR DEPARTMENT CASES. A dairyman, s George f1 Rumble/- was. I ; charged at ;the's Police : Court ' vesterday '- before Mr. J. W. S.M., with ! having failed to -the necessary notification to thd Labour Department of : overtime worked by two,female employees. tS' It was ,ri stated that defendant had ;j[nofe^S? replied to letters sent to him by tha department. A fiae of 40s and 7s cogiß was imposed. _... For having failed to keep i/ wages and •. •' time book, J. Littler was* lined £2 an£ i ' > :