MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Southland Times, Issue 17756, 6 September 1917, Page 5

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5. (Before Mr G. Cruickshank, S.M.) BY-LAW CASES. Colin Gerrard (Mr H. A. Macdonald), who had left his car standing unlighted in the street, was fined 10s with 7s costs. Oscar W. Owles (Mr G. P. Keddell) was charged with driving a car without lights. Counsel stated that his client had put the switch at dim and driven off under the belief that he was showing lights. Afterwards it transpired that there had been something wrong with the mechanism and the lamps had not lit.—-Convicted and discharged. Dazzling car headlights while in Invercargill cost James Ayson (Waikaka), and Thos. Crossland (Seaward Downs), £1 and 5s respectively, with 7s costs in each instance. Walter McDonough, .las. Watt, and Ritchie Crawford had the bicycle lighting compartments of their memories jogged to the extent of £1 and 7s each. Bert Sharpe (Mr Mervyn Mitchel), a lad of 17, had been riding next to a companion whose machine was lighted—Five shillings, no costs. Joseph Holloway, junr., aged 15, for a similar offence, was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence when called upon. For permitting two horses to be at large in Venus street, Alexander McLeaiy was fined 10s without costs. Two of Robert Murray’s cows had wandered on Morton road. He was fined 5s with 7s costs. A cow and a heifer wandering in Duke street cost Helen von Tunzleman 7s 6d, without costs. TRUANCY. On a charge of failing to enrol his boy on a school register, Alexander Geo. Clark (Invercargill) was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence when called upon. A fine will be imposed unless the boy commences school immediately. DEFAULTING CADET. Douglas Galbraith, a cadet who wrote from Central Otago to say that he was eight miles from a drill centre, was charged with failing to attend parade. Evidently be had not notified the Department of his change of address. —Fined 10s and 7s costs, in default, 7 days’ imprisonment.