PETONE POLICE COURT
YESTERDAY’S SITTING. At the monthly sitting of th© Petone Court, presided over by Mr F. K. Hunt, S.M., Richard John Smith, a young man, was ordered to pay costs for absenting himself from his employment without leave. It was pointed out that the defendant was an apprentice employed at the Petone railway workshops, and he was charged under the Master and Apprentices Act with absenting himself from his employ n ent. The defendant, it was stated, did not like the work lie was engaged in, and took no interest in it. The magistrate made an order for the indentures to be cancelled. William James, 19 years of age, who was found in a billiard room without lawful excuse, was fined 10s with 7s costs. Ernest Albert Jessop, driving a tnctor-car in a public thoroughfare at n "-feed dangerous to the safety of the public, was mulcted to tho extent of X2 7e.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 10851, 17 March 1921, Page 3
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155PETONE POLICE COURT New Zealand Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 10851, 17 March 1921, Page 3
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