NOT CROWDED

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 805, 28 October 1929, Page 16

NOT CROWDED

Only Two Men in Police Court Cells FOUR MINUTES’ SITTING With, quit© the usual flourish, the police van drew up in the Magistrate’s Court yard this morning. Court officials and newspaper reporters listened apprehensively to its approach, speculating on the amount of work that would come their way on what was—to some—a public holiday. There was a clump of heavy boots on the gravel yard, and two prisoners were marched to the cells. Inside the court room were two justices of the peace, a court orderly and clerk, a sub-inspector of police, a sergeant, ten constables, and four reporters, with pencils at the ready. Inside the sat the two prisoners, seemingly not at all impressed by the majesty of the law, on view for their particular benefit. One man was fined 5s for drunkenness, and the other was remanded that the magistrate might deal with him tomorrow. The sitting of the court lasted about four minutes.