CITY POLICE COURT.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20708, 4 May 1929, Page 26

CITY POLICE COURT.

Friday, .May 3, ' {Before Mr H. ,W. Bundle, S.M.) ' CARELESS MOTORISTS. , Charged with , being in. charge ,o( an unlighted motor car, Robert Dick Bain was fined'ss and costs (10s). ■ Robert Paterson Pate was charged with driving a motor car in King Edward street in, a manner dangerous to the public.—The police evidence was to the effect that the defendant rushed across points at 30, miles per Hour,-—de-fendant was fined 20s and costs. . Robert James Rotting pleaded not guilty to a charge of failing to stop when signalled to do so by a traffic constable. — Constable Turgis, who was at point duty at the foot of High-street, stated that both he and Sergeant Gilligan ordered the defendant to stop. The defendant, however, went right on. —The defendant explained that he stopped at the constable’s signal, .but had understood that the sergeant, who was talking to the.constable at the time, had ordered him to go on and not block the traffic.—The magistrate dismissed the information, remarking that the case would probably act as a warning to the defendant to bo more careful in future. SHOPS AND OFFICES ACT. George U. Pagonis was charged with failing to close his shop at 10.30 p.m.— Mr A. T. Grandison, inspector of factories, said that on the evening of April 12 a customer purchased fish and chips from the defendant’s shop at 10.45 p.m. The defendant, who had a dining room attached to his shop, had received exemption from the ordinary . fishmongers’ hours on condition that he did not sell fish after those hours.—A fine of 20s and costs (10s) was imposed. Mrs M. Munro was proceeded against for employing a female in her restaurant after the prescribed' hours. : —There was no appearance of defendant, who was fined 20s and costs.