MAGISTRATE'S COURT AT WAIPIRO

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13373, 6 May 1914, Page 5

MAGISTRATE'S COURT AT WAIPIRO

A HEAVY CALENDAR

A sitting of the x Magistrate's Court was held at Waipiro Bay on the Ist and 2nd inst., before Mr - W. A. Barton, S.M., when a heavy calendar of 65 civil | cases and 27 criminal charges was presented. His Worship sat from 10 a.m. Friday till 12.30 a.m. Saturday, and again on Saturday from 10 a.m. ' till 5.30- p.m. The Court work comprised the following matters:— Ten natives were convicted and n'ned the usual amount for drunkenness. Keka Rehua was convicted and fined , for using obscene language at Tokomaru [ Bay. ( ' "'.■ * A Tuparoai affiliation case was adjourned till July 31 on payment of £l/ls . solicitor/af©e. ' Threej natives were convicted of assault, and were each - lined £1, and costs r (over £2 m each instance), m default . seven days' imprisonnient. . """•'* For assaulting Constable Mbrris m the execution of his' duty at the Takapau sports, .Matekairoa Tukiteahi was convicted, and fined £1 and costs 14s 6d, m default four days' imprisonment, at I Port Awanui police gaol. Piripi Hautake, for drunkenness when m charge of a horse at the Mangahanea sports, was fined £1, and costs 1% 6d, m default four days' imprisonment. Upon a further- charge-, of- using indecent language . iii a public place, defendant was fined £3, and costs 9s 6d, iv default 14 days' imprisonment (cumulative). " For threatening behavior on December 20th last, . Turei. Grace was • fined 10a, and costs 14s 6d, or foiu- days' imprisonment, and Sam Grace, on a similar charge, was fined £1. and 14s 6d costs, or seven days' imprisonment Murdock M'cKeime, licensee' of the Tuparoa hotel, was charged with having, m a. district proclaimed under section 46 the Licensing Amendment- Act, 1910, to wit, the Horouta Maori district,,supplied liquor to certain natives on February 17. Mr J. J. Mead, of Tokomaru Bay. appeared for defendant, who pleaded not guilty. After a. lengthy hearing, his Worship recorded a conviction, and fined defendant £20, and costs m default two months' imprisonment at Gisborne.

Edward AshwoTth, barman of the same hotel, Vas convicted of a aimilar offence, and fined a. like amount. — Notice of appeal was fliven m both cases> A young half-caste, upon a charge of attempting to unlawfully know a female under the age of 16'' years', was committed to the. Supreme Qourt at Gisborne for sentence. Bail was allowed m a sum of £50 and two sureties of £25 each. Tori -Mulligan, of Tokjomaru Bay, was charged with failing to send a child to school as .required by the Education Act. The case was adjourned by consent until July 31.— (Correspondent.)