POLICE COURT MATTERS.

NZ Truth, Issue 265, 23 July 1910, Page 7

POLICE COURT MATTERS.

The daily parade of "found drunk" charges, of indecency, etc., begins at the S.JVL's Couri with never-f^aling regularity at 10.30 aan. Mr Uutten receives his visitors with the blandest of smites, and' also wears a very cheery look when imposing penalties of from 5s on first offenders to £2 on habituals — usual alternative 24 hours to 14 days. The procession is reminiscent of Royalty holding a levee, the culprits representing the recipients of honor as they pass under review. If a portal were constructed \mder Mr Cutten's seat, t o enable the accused tp come m on the left, pass under tfafi magisterial chair, and out o n the right, a great deal ot time would be saved. Thus : while entering on the left the charge could bo read over and the plea entered, and while passing under and out on the right, the penalty announced by the one above.