MAGISTRATE'S COURT

New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11873, 5 July 1924, Page 8

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

YESTERDAY’S SITTING. POLICE AND SUMMONS GASES. A lengthy list of police and summons cases were dealt with by Mr E. Page, S.M., at the Magistrate’s Court yesterday. Wilhelmina Ann Chambers, aged 47, was remanded to Christchurch on a charge of being an habitual inebriate. For drunkenness John Blackball was fined £2, in default three days’ in custody. Daniel McFariahe was fined £l, with the option of spending _ a similar period in custody for a like offence. ANOTHER CHANCE. . Despite a lengthy list of previous convictions William Gordon, who pleaded guilty to the theft of a quantity of brass wire, belonging to the Government, and valued at £1 2s Bd, was given a chance by the bench. Accused’s brother declared the defendant bad never had a previous chance. “See what yon can do with him,” said the magistrate. Gordon was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if called upon within 12 months. ALLEGED THEFT. ■ 7 A remand to the Bth instant was granted in the case of Frederick Charles Cudby, aged 39 (Mr J. F. B. Stevenson), who was charged with stealing £2 10s in money from Margaret Hanahan. Bail was allowed at £25. SUMMONS CASES. A fine of £1 and costs was imposed on Henry MoGinity, who was charged with a breach of a prohibition order. Esther Grihhle and Mary Taylor, who were each summoned on a charge of drinking liquor in a restaurant after the hotel had closed, were each fined the amount of the costs 7s in each case. Gilbert Bruce, for selling milk below the standard required, was fined £2 and costs. William Telford was fined £3 and ' costs for selling milk containing water. Bristol Laboratories were ordered to pay the costs on a charge of selling drugs in a package not properly labelled. Fines of £3 and costs were imposed on F. House, the Nonpareil Manufacturing Co., and the Pacific Manufacturing Co. for a breach of the Sale of Food and Drags Act, in relation to labels on packages. Mr J. Mettser, on behalf of the firms, undertook to have the labels withdrawn. Thomas Fearon, who was found on a racecourse while prohibited' from entering such an enclosure, was even a week in which to pay a fine of £3. The Osborne Manufacturing 00., for a technical breach of the provisions regulating labels on packages, was fined Vora Nelson and Violet Black were each fined £3 for assaulting Agnet Montecino. 111-treating a horse, David Leslie Burns, was fined £2 and costs, and for overloading the animal he was fined £lO and costs. A (barge of failing to aeoonnt for £l9 to Die Colonial Mutual Life Assurance Go., preferred against a young man named Sydney Shirley Che&wynd (Mr W. E. Leicester), was dismissed. Mark Davin, John Kean, and Angus McCauley, who were found on licensed nremieea after hours, were each fined £2. Thomas J. Leighton, who was charged on four counts with a breach of the Sale of Food and Drugs Act, was fined £5 on one charge and £2 on another. Two alternative counts were dismissed.