POLICE PRACTICE

New Zealand Herald, Volume 81, Issue 24869, 15 April 1944, Page 6

POLICE PRACTICE

OBJECTION BY 'JUSTICES CASES AGAINST MOTORISTS (0.C.) DUXKD-TN, Friday The police procedure in asking that justices of the peace, when dealing with charges of intoxication while in charge of motor vehicles, should remand the accused persons to appear before a magistrate was sharply challenged in the City Police Court when a milk vendor pleaded guilty to being intoxicated while in charge of a motortruck. Messrs. A. J. Haub and H. E. Barth. justices of the peace, were on the Bench.

Senior-Sergeant 1). W. Black asked for a remand. Mr. Haub: On what grounds do vou ask for that? Senior-Sergeant Black: It is a rule that persons charged with this offence are remanded to appear before a magistrate.

Mr. Haub: That rule does not apply in this Court. Similar offences have previously been dealt with by justices here.. ... Senior-Sergeant Black: Not in the three years that I have been representing the police in this Court. Senior-Sergeant Black then added that the report of the constable who made the arrest was not available. Mr. Haub: The first request, that a remand should be granted to have the defendant "brought before a magistrate, will not be considered. In view of the fact that the full evidence is not available. however, a remand will be granted. NELSON FRUIT CROP ALREADY OVER 500,000 OASES (0.C.) NELSON, Friday Good quantities of apples and pears are being received at assembly depots in the Nelson district and the 500,000 mark has been passed. Ihe total is below that of 1943, but well above the comparative 1942 figure. Up till Easter 512,500 cases had been sent forward by orchardists, the total consisting of 466,187 cases.of apples and 46,313 cases of pears. Up to March 31 this__vear receipts were 405,238 cases (363,5 11 of apples and 41,661 of pears), compared with 569,213 cases (517,309 of apples and 52,234 of pears) in 1943 and_263,552 cases (236.283 of apples and 57,269 of pears) in the same period of 1942 GTS BORNE RAILWAY FIRST YEAR'S REVENUE (0.C.1 GISBOKNK. Fridn> The Gisbornc section of the east coast railway lias completed the first lull financial year of operation since its coiiI neetion with the main sv>tem. and, in I spite of two periods of curtailed runining through coal shortages, the reI venue inward and outward exceeded i £140,000 for the 12 months at the Gisi borne and Matawhero stations. Mata- ! whero is five miles from Gisborne. Live- | stock and export produce were features iof the year's running. Nearly 300,000 | sheep and more than 22,000 cattle were 1 handled, while goods carried totalled i 47,000 tons, including 8500 tons of timi her. FATHERS IN ARMY release advocated (0.C.) CSIRI STCHURCH, Friday A suggestion that the Dominion headquarters of tlie Returned Services Association should be asked to make repI resentations to the Government that married men with children, now serving in the armed forces overseas, should be brought back to New Zealand ana replaced by category A single men, was made by Mr. J. K. Moloney at a meeting of the executive of the Christchurch Returned Services Association. .Mr. Moloney said he considered that married men with three children should be brought home first. They had no right to he away fighting while there were 10,000 A. grade single men in New Zealand. Archdeacon A. J. Petrie: It is not moral. Air. D. W. Russell said Parliament had recently had a secret session, and it was understood that manpower had been discussed. "I think we may safely leave it to our legislators," he added. "Our legislators may be doing something about it, so far as we know," said the president, Mr. O, Miln. Mr. Russell: The problem is one for Parliament rather than for the R.S.A. Mr. Molonev: 1 disagree with that. On the motion of Mr. Moloney it was res< lived that the Dominion executive should be requested to make representations to the Cabinet that consideration should be given to the return from overseas of married men with children, There were no dissentients. ACCI DENT A L PROWNIN G (0.C.) - HITNTLY, Friday A verdict that deceased were accidentally drowned in Rake Waikare at Oliinewai on March 19 was returned by the coroner, Mr. C. Hay-Chapman, at the inquest to-day concerning the deaths of Mr, Lawrence Humphries Hosking land Mr. James Wooller, both farmers, of Ohinewai. The coroner expressed the .minion that flat-bottomed boats with |jttL. )•>;im and freeboard, such as that u.-ed l,v i iic deceased, were suitable only for sheltered water*.