MAGISTRATE’S COURT

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11224, 1 June 1922, Page 10

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

YESTERDAY'S SITTING. POLICE PROSECUTIONS. Police and indictable case© in the Magistrate's Court yesterday received the attention of Mr F. K. Hunt, S.M. For insobriety, only one first offender was treated in the customary manner. ANOTHER TRIAL. "We have decided to give him another trial at the Ohiro Home, sir," said Senior-Sergeant Lander, when, an old man named William Wallace, seventyfour years of age, hobbled into the box on remand on. a charge of being idle and disorderly. Under the circumstances, he wae convicted and ordered to come up when called upon. "A TYPICAL WASTER." "This man never pays; he is a consistent dodger and a typical waster," remarked Mr J. Scott, when Walter Henry Flatt wa© charged with failing to comply with the terms of a maintenance order, the arrears of which were set down at £l7 6s. Mr Scott went on to say that the arrears were now about £2B, and the man had paid nothing of this sum. Defendant said he had been out of work and suffered ill health. When be secured a job he would give the matter his attention. Sin£e 1917 he had been in the hospital no fewer than seven times and believed he wae going into consumption. The magistrate: When were you. in hospital Jast?—Well, about two* years ago. (Laughter.) His Worship also discovered that the man had a previous conviction. "You will be sentenced to three months' imprisonment. Now you can make arrangements to get out." HAD A "BAD HEAD." Patrick Murphy, who was charged with wilfully disobeying a lawful command on the Canadian Constructor, wanted to know why he was "picked on." "Every blooming man on that ship has been off, anayet you pick on to me," he told the officer on th» ship. The magistrate: Why didn't you work then ? —I was bad. The magistrate: What was wrong with you?—l had a bad head. The magistrate: Had you been drinking the night before?—The defendant smiled and nodded assent. Ue was sentenced to fourteen days' imprisonment, to he placed aboard the vessel when the steamer sailed. . ANOTHER REMAND. A remand until Juno 7th was granted in the case of Albert Charles Thomas Lamb, who was charged with obtaining •od« to the value of £2B 6s fid by mean* of a valueless promissory note, and with

obtaining goods valued at £36 13s 6d from Tubranski, Ltd., on March 18th, and Rish Alexander, on December JCth. 1921, by means of a valueless cheque. It was stated that the man wag already undergoing sentence. THEFT OF FRUIT. For the theft of six lemons and five oranges, valued at 4s fid, the property of the Union Steamship Company, a man was fined £4 and costs. It was explained that the fruit had "come adrift," but it wna stated that if such were the case it was an offence to remove the fruit. There had been a good deal of sickness in the family, and the fruit was intended for an invalid. The magistrate decided to make use ot hsw powers under the J.P. Act 'and merely inflicted a fine.