MAGISTRATE’S COURT
POLICE AND BY-LAW CASES. •Yesterday’s sitting of the Magistrate's Court was, presided over by Mr D. .G. A. Cooper, S.M. Louisa Tierney was convicted and discharged for drunkenness, and . fined £2, or seven days' imprisonment, for the use of obscene language. John-Ward and Martin Grogan, who had a fight in Cuba street, were each lined £l, dr three days’ imprisonment. Angus Me in nos was convicted and discharged for drunkenness, and for indecency was fined £2, or seven days’' detention. ■ .
James William Murdoch Ross, who appeared on a charge of disobeying a maintenance order, was remanded until Monday. ; Insobriety cost Alfred Charles Hale and James McGowan each 20s, or three days’ detention; James Lcckie 10s,or forty-eight hours. Marion Coombor was ordered to come up'for sentence when called upon on a charge of using obsceno ■ language. A prohibition order was also issued against her. James Flock ton, for suspending a bath .tub so as to encroach on the footway in Manners street, was fined Os, and costs ,7s.
For breaches of various by-laws small monetary penalties were imposed upon the following i —Leonard Barber, Edward Barnes, W. G. Boulton, Thomas Connolly, Claude Gornforth, D. Jameson, Francis Featherston Newman, Charles Nunn, Thomas Parnell, Arthur Tuttle, Frederick Welsher, George 11. Bradley, Florence Hendrickson, George Brad nock, Mrs Alice Vvickman, Hugh Lawrence Greer.
Thomas McKelvie, who* travelled upon a tramcar. without paying his faro, was ordered to pay' costs 13s.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XL, Issue 9044, 15 May 1915, Page 10
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238MAGISTRATE’S COURT New Zealand Times, Volume XL, Issue 9044, 15 May 1915, Page 10
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