MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 147, 28 July 1914, Page 10

MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

(Before Mr H. W. Bishop, S.M.)

DRUNKENNESS.

Nelson Harvey was convicted and fined 5/- for drunkenness and 40/- for obscenity. The alternatives were 24 hours and one month respectively. Norman .Leslie Brown, for drunkenness, was given fourteen days' hard labour. "I know the man," said the Magistrate, '' he's becoming a perfect nuisance." MAINTENANCE. William John Lilly was ordered to pay 5/- per week towards the support of his child in an industrial school. Mary Jane Knife applied for the cancellation of a maintenance order. This was granted, and the arrears were also cancelled, as the" applicant had been iu receipt of charitable aid for some weeks past and had also been ill. John William Morris, who was £164 in arrears on a maintenance order, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment and ordered to pay off the arrears at the rate of £1 per week. The sulyTnspector stated that Morris was in a good position and simply would not pay.

James Hayes was sentenced to three months' imprisonment, the warrant to be suspended as long as he paid 2/6 per week off his maintenance order.

William O'Donnell, for disobeying a maintenance order made against him for the support of his wife, and on which he was £24 in arrears, was sentenced to three months' imprisonment or payment forthwith. Mr Hunt appeared for the wife.

Ellen Jane Thompson was asked to support her father. She said decidedly that she would not contribute, as her father used the money in the wrong way —drinking it. She said she had five brothers who could support, the old man and she herself was only earning 17/6 per week at domestic work. The Magistrate refused an order and dismissed the information, saying that the Court was very careful in making orders against women.