POLICE COURT NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20519, 21 March 1930, Page 16

POLICE COURT NEWS.

ROGUES AND VAGABONDS.

GAOL FOR OLD OFFENDERS. Two old offenders, Alexander Mollis, aged 67, labourer, and John Collie, aged 61, labourer, were charged in the Police Court yesterday with being rogues and vagabonds in that they possessed insufficient lawful means of support and had been previously convicted for. boing idle and disorderly. "He is one of our problems," said SubInspector McCarthy, after Mellis had pleaded guilty. "He will insist on, cadging from people in the street and has been chinking very frequently lately." Mr. McCarthy suggested the imposition of a long term of imprisonment.

"This is his 55th appearance," remarked the magistrate, Mr. F. K. Hunt, in sending Mollis to prison for six months. "I earn a little every day," said Collie, who also pleaded guilty. Police evidence was that accused had been found sleeping in the Domain, while accused stated that he had gone there about 10 o'clock in tho evening and had intended to return home again. A similar term of six months' imprisonment was imposed on Collie.

An assault on an apprentice on tho steamer Matakana was admitted by a fireman on the ship, Richard Clark, who was fined £l, in default three days' imprisonment.

At the conclusion of the case brought in the Magistrate's Court on Wednesday against A. W. Collins, who was charged with speeding on Orewa Beach and who was stated to have been practising with the Takapuna Life-saving Club, the magistrate dismissed the charge against defendant, against whom no conviction was entered.