CITY POLICE COURT

Southland Times, Issue 21895, 22 December 1932, Page 11

CITY POLICE COURT

miscellaneous cases. FINAL SITTING FOR YEAR. The final sitting for the year of the City Police Court was held before Mr E. C. Lewey, S.M., yesterday morning, when a miscellaneous list of cases was heard. . John Plunket, who was convicted oi driving a motor car at a speed dangerous to the public, was convicted ana ordered to come up for sentence if called upon within 12 months. He was declared unfit to hold a driver’s license for 12 months. George David Jury, who did not appear, for riding a motor cycle without a license, was convicted and fined 10/and costs 10/-. . . Tapper’s Ltd. were charged with hiring a motor cycle to Jury without entering in a register the name of the local authority by whom the license was issued. A plea of guilty was entered. The defendants were convicted and fined £1 and costs 10/-. Sydney Hill, a farm labourer, was proceeded against by the Collector of Customs (Mr H. S. Cordery) on a charge of taking under-sized flounders. The defendant wrote in pleading guilty, but stated that he understood the minimum size was seven inches. A fine of £2, together with costs 12/- was imposed. The adjourned case in which Henry Reginald Bartlett (Mr J. C. Prain), a photographer, was charged with the theft of a bicycle was heard, the evidence of the accused and his wife being taken. The Magistrate said he could not accept Bartlett’s story that he had bought the bicycle off a man named Brash. , The accused was convicted and admitted to probation for two years. Witnesses expenses were fixed at £1 7/and an order for the return of the bicycle to its owner was made.