PENSIONER FINED

Southland Times, Issue 17658, 16 February 1916, Page 6

PENSIONER FINED

INVALID BY-LAW. (Per United Press Association.) TIAIARU, February 15. At the Magistrate's Court at Tomuka to-day, an old ago pensioner, named Stokes, was fined and ordered to refund tho amount of pension overpaid in consequence of the mis-stating of tho amount of money he possessed. He had admitted a bank account of £SO, but was found by tho accident of notes getting wet and being hung on a line in his hut to dry, that lie had casli in hand, and when taxed by the clerk of the court with tiiis admitted that ho had £lO. At the same court, after four men had been fined £1 each for a breach of the Borough By-law limiting tho speed of cats over crossings in main streets to six miles an hour, a similar charge against a fifth man was dismissed. The solicitor who appeared for tho defence argued that tho by-law was invalid, as it was made under tho ALunicipal Corporations Act instead of the Alotor Regulations Act, and the Alagistrate concurred.