CITY POLICE COURT

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24481, 14 December 1940, Page 2

CITY POLICE COURT

Friday, December 13 (Before Mr H. W. Bundle, S.M.) Theft Stated by the prosecution to have forced a drawer in a house in Invercargill and stolen a £5 note and two £ 1 notes, a youth, publication of whose name was prohibited in the meantime, pleaded guilty to the theft of £7.—He was ordered to be remanded in custody until Monday, the child welfare officer to submit a report in the meantime. . Price Fixation “ I am instructed to say that the increased price was not such as to justify any suggestion that the firm has been profiteering,” said the Crown Prosecutor, Mr F. B. Adams, when Allen, Son and McLure, Ltd., for whom Mr J. C. Mowat appeared, were charged with having sold goods at a price higher than that ruling in September, 1939. without the consent of the Price Fixing Tribunal.—Agreeing that there was no suggestion of profiteering, his Worship entered a conviction and ordered payment of costs (10s) and solicitor’s fee (£2 2s).—Messrs Arthur Barnett, Ltd., and A. and T. Inglis, Ltd., were similarly charged. Mr Adams stressed the fact that the department was not concerned with the reasonableness of the prices in these cases, but simply with the fact that the goods had been sold without permission from the tribunal. —The magistrate agreed with the submission of Mr J. S. Sinclair, who represented both firms, that there had been no suggestion of profiteering, and in each case entered a conviction, with costs (10s) and solicitor’s fee (£2 2s).—Three charges of a similar nature were preferred against the Otago Farmers Co-operative Association, Ltd. (Mr N. Thompson).—On one charge the defendant firm was fined £2 and solicitor’s fee (£2 2s), and on the other two convictions were entered, with cos .a (10s) and solicitor’s fee. Motorists Charged

Motorists charged with breaches of the traffic regulations were dealt with as follows, costs, unless otherwise stated, being fixed at 10s:—Thomas Joseph Heafey. faffing to report a motel accident, fined £5 and_ costs, John Michael O’Sullivan, no drivers licence fined 10s and costs: Hugh Albert Brockie, inefficient brakes, fined £2 and costs; and no warrant of fitness (two charges), convicted and discharged: Alan Parkinson speeding. fined 8 £1 10s and costs; Neville McLaren Briscoe, speeding, £1 and rosts- Graham Coal Company, overloading heavy traffic vehicle, fined £2 11s and costs; Walter James Henderson, no warrant of fitness, fined 10s and costs; Raymond Hellyer, overloading lieavy traffic vehicle, fined £1 8s and C9sts (12s); Hugh Henry Lyall, speeding, fined £1 5s and costs; John Hallifield Spencer, speeding, fined £2 and costs; David and William Dunford, no vehicle authority, convicted and ordered to pay costs; Gordon Robert Cameron, unlicensed driver, fined 5s and costs, and no warrant of fitness, fined 10s; Patrick Edmond Collins, obstructing traffic. fined 5s and costs; William John Keen, speeding, £1 5s and costs; James Robert McKibbin. no warrant of fitness, fined 10s and costs. Other Charges For failing to furnish a return bf income to the Commissioner of Taxes, Ascot. Ltd., was fined £2 and costs. (10s), with solicitor’s fee (£2 2s). Charged with procuring a firearm without a permit, Robert Frederick Whyman was fined 10s and costs (10s), and for delivering the firearm, also without a permit, William Kilgour was convicted and discharged. For riding an unlighted bicycle Robert Maitland was convicted and discharged. For procuring liquor during the currency of a prohibition order, William Ernest Garden was fined £ 1 10s and costs (10s).