CITY POLICE COURT

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24327, 18 June 1940, Page 5

CITY POLICE COURT

Monday, June 17 (Before Mr H. W. Bundle. S.M.) Drunkenness Two first offenders, charged with drunkenness, were each fined £l. “This man requires a short term of imprisonment, or perhaps the court might see its way clear to sending him to Roto Roa Island,” said Sergeant Johnsen when Stephen Francis Llewellyn Neary, whose record disclosed three previous convictions within the past six months, pleaded guilty) to a charge of , drunkenness. Sergeant Johnsen added that the defendant had made himself a nuisance at the Public Hospital.—A sentence of 14 days’ imprisonment was imposed. Motorist Charged Arising from a motor fatality which occurred on the Duned in-Port Chalmers road on June 8, Miles Middleditch, for whom Mr C. J. L. White appeared, was charged with being intoxicated while in charge of a motor vehicle.— On the application of Detective Sergeant Hall, who stated that there was a possibility of a more serious charge being preferred, a remand until June 26 was granted, bail being allowed in the accused’s own recognisance of £SO. and one surety of a like amount. Maintenance William Cook Woodward vvas charged with disobedience of a maintenance order, the arrears amounting to £67 10s.—He was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment, the warrant to be suspended conditional on his paying £5 on or before June 20 and £1 10s per week thereafter until the arrears are discharged. In a reserved decision his Worship granted affiliation and maintenance orders against Basil Knox, fixing maintenance at 12s 6d per week and past maintenance at £5 ss. An application for affiliation and maintenance orders against John Alexander William Forrester was granted, maintenance being fixed at 12s 6d per week and past maintenance at £ a ss,