POLICE COURT NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19762, 8 October 1927, Page 14

POLICE COURT NEWS.

VARIED PROSECUTIONS. FINES FOR SUNDAY TRADING. "Accused has a list of convicitions as long as Your Worship's arm," said Sergeant Caldwell m the Police Court yesterday, when referring to Elsie Neville, who was fined £>, with costs, for procuring liquor while i rohibited. For a similar offence J. S. Cock was fined 20s, and E. W. Jagger was ordered to pay costs. Charged with being found on licensed premises after hovrs, C- J. Crean and R. E. Smith were each fined 20s. A penalty of 20ti was imposed on (3. F. Bell for being in jossession of an unregistered shotgun. Ho was fined a further 10s for failing tq notify the arms authorities of the change of his address. "I did not know I «vas breaking the law," said C. Sumich when charged with failing to register a shotgun. Ignorance of the law . was no excuse,'the magistrate said, in ordering Sumich to pay costs. Four shopkeepers chared with Sunday trading did not appear. They were Kathleen Bell, Beatrice Billson, Ethel Dick and Leonard L. Lawrence, each being fined 40s, * Failure to renew his radio licence was admitted by J. K. Milne, who was fined £3 and directed to pay costs. "It should have been cheaper if you had paid your 30s licence fee,'' the magistrate remarked . Charged with not having a licence for the company under the Stamp Duties Act, R, J. Hipperd, Ltd., was fined £5, with costs. It was stated the company had previously been fined.