THE USUAL BUDGET

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12527, 17 August 1926, Page 6

THE USUAL BUDGET

WEEK-END CELEBRANTS SOME LIVELY SCRIMMAGES. The usual budgot of week-end celebrants and law-breakers was arraigned before Mr E. Page, S.M.. at the Magistrate’s Court yesterday, and punishment was meted out as follows: Frederick Taylor was fined 10s. in default 24 hours’ imprisonment, for drunkenness, and £1 in default seven days Us the compelled guest of tbe Government, for a breach of his prohibition order. Similar offences cost Louis Gestro like amounts, the defaults in his case, however, being fixed at three days and seven days in gaol respectively. James A Shaw bent his elbow a little too frequently on Saturday, and at 0.5 o’clock became obstreperous on Cambridge terrnce, and wanted to fight a man who wa- perfectly sober. A bolt from the blue descended irpon him, and he was accordingly charged with disorderly behariotlt while drunk. He admitted the offence, and wfta convicted and discharged, having been in custody since Saturday night. Herbert George William Wheeler and Eden .Tesse Morris came to blows at the corner of Dixon and Taranaki streets at 7.30 o’clock on Saturday evening. Unfortunately they committed this indiscretion in the view of a constable On a charge of fighting with another person they were each ronvirted and ntulrted in tbe sum of £l. in default three days’ imprisonment.