CITY POLICE COURT

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23731, 11 February 1939, Page 3

CITY POLICE COURT

-Friday, February 10 (Before Mr J. R. Bartholomew, S.M.) Drunkenness Charged with drunkenness, two first offenders were each fined £l, in default 48 hours' imprisonment. A Chimney Fire For allowing the chimney of his house to catch fire, Johnston McAra was fined 10s and costs (10s). Unlicensed Wireless A conviction was entered against John Henry Edward Carey, who was charged with failing to obtain a licence for his wireless set. Breach of Prohibition Order Alfred William Perry was fined 10s and costs (10s) for procuring liquor during the currency of a prohibition order. Cyclists Fined Edna Lilian Perry was convicted and ordered to pay court costs (10s) for failing to signal when turning on a bicycle. , . , For riding an unhghted bicycle, Lionel Harold Trainor was fined 5s and costs (10s). Wilful Damage Leslie Towns pleaded guilty to, a charge of drunkenness, and to having wilfully damaged two panes of glass and a sewing machine.—Sergeant Lean explained that the accused, who was in an advanced stage of intoxication, had broken two windows in a house in Marion street, a bottle which he threw also damaging a sewing machine.— Remarking that the public must be protected against people like the accused, who had a bad list, the magistrate imposed a sentence of one month's imprisonment with hard labour on the charge of wilful damage and fined the accused 10s, in default 24 hours' imprisonment, for drunkenness. Remand Granted Charged with being intoxicated while in charge of a motor car, Henry George Anson Barnes, who was represented by Mr O. G. Stevens, was remanded until Monday, bail being allowed in his own recognisance of £25. Motorists Charged Raymond Anderson was fined 20s and costs (10s) for driving past a stationary tramcar. For failing to give way at a street intersection to traffic approaching from his right, Thomas George Kellan was fined £l, with costs (16s) and witnesses' expenses (16s). For exceeding the speed limit of 30 miles per hour through a restricted area, George Richard Green was fined £1 10s, David McPherson £l, and Thomas Ruddiman £2. costs in each case being fixed at 10s. Dick Hade was fined 10s and costs (10s) for being an unlicensed motor driver.

For failing to have a warrant of fitness, George Alexander Munro was fined 5s and costs (3s).—Similarly charged, Neville Francis Armstrong, Ernest Charles Bartlett, Alexander Dick, Fritz Hesse, Samuel Higginson, Robert Inglis Laing. and Nan Henrietta Ritchie were each fined a like amount, with costs (10s). " Took a Chance "

Noel John Hagerty, an unlicensed motor driver, was also charged with having no warrant of fitness.—The defendant admitted that he had been prohibited from driving and "just took a chance."—On the charge of having no warrant, he wag fined 5s and costs (10s), and on the other Information a fine of £3 and costs (10s) was imposed, his Worship observing that he was doubtful whether he was not being too lenient, as it was a serious matter for a man be in charge of a car when he had been prohibited from driving.