MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Southland Times, Issue 17938, 18 May 1917, Page 2

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

WEDNESDAY, MAY 16 (Before Mr G. Cruickshank, S.M.). BY-LAW CASES. There were extenuating private circumstances in regard to -Murray Sharp’s cycling on a North Invercargill footpath and he was convicted and discharged. Charged with having driven an unlighted motor car through Dee street at 3.15 a.m., D. Michael was fined £2 with 7s costs. , , Martin O’Shea’s tall light had gone out unknown to him. —Fined 10s and 7s. jno. Gullick, for exhibiting no tail light on the North road at Waikiwi was eased of 10s and 7s. Alexander McKay s case and fate was similar. Dazzling headlights cost three motorists fines of £1 and 7s costs James Duncan, for riding a motor cycle bearing no registration mark, was fined £1 plus 7s. “To save life you mustn t endanger life.” That was the attitude the police took up in the case against Frank Burrows, taxi-driver, charged with driving on the East road at a speed dangerous to the public. Burrows was under commission from a doctor to bring an injured man in for an operation. The doctor wanted to operate befoie dark and ordered Burrows to make all haste on the outward journey, as he would require to drive easily with the patient. The police estimated the speed at 22 miles per hour and defendant remarked on the Inconsistency of by-laws, since there were places In London where a speed of 20 miles per hour was permitted as against a limit of eight throughout Invercargill. —Convicted and ordered to come up for sentence. Leslie Guthrie’s East road speed cost him £2 with 7s costs. John O’Brien, carter for the Bristol Piano Company, had left a piano case on the footpath after dark. He had lately been ill for a fortnight.-—Convict-ed and discharged. A MILITARY SERVICE CASE. Ernest Jno. Bridgman was charged with having failed to notify his change of address from Otautau to Invercargill as required under the Military Service Act. He had,left his new address with the postmaster in the inland township and thought that his certificate of enrolment would be forwarded with the rest of his letters. Fined 10s and 7s. SANCTUARY SHOOTING. A defendant was charged by the Acclimatisation Society (Mr Eustace Russell) with having shot a grey duck and two pukako on the Oporo sanctuary on the morning of May i. Mr Russell said that the shootist had had the shooting of the spot for many years and had not known of its declaration as a sanctuary in January last. It was dark when he got on to the ground that morning, so he had not seen the notice The first news of the sanctuary he received, was when the ranger accosted him at 7.30 a.m. He had known that part of Mrs Bevan’s property had been declared a sanctuary but did not know that it was his little corner. Mr Russell suggested that the case might be met by the minimum fine of £l, which was accordingly Imposed with 7s costs.