MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume V, Issue 1276, 15 March 1918, Page 4

MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

TO-DAY’S CASES. Mr T. A. B. Bailey, S.M.. preside*! at the Magistrate’s Court to-day. Drunkenness. —A first offender for drunkenness was fined 5/-, in default 24 hours’ imprisonment. Bobert Balloon, charged with helpless drunkenness, was convicted and ordered to pay expenses amounting to £2. Second-hand Dealer’s Act.—John Snell, a second hand dealer, and Bobeit Graham, his employee, were charged ■with purchasing artiefes from a person under 16. Mr M. Donnelly appeared for both, and admitted the offences. Mr Donnelly said that Mr Snell had been in business for about 25 years in this city, and had never given any trouble | to the police in regard to his business, iln this particular case he did not think ' that the articles, old scrap iron, came I within the section. Each defendant was 1 fined 20/- and costs. By-law Cases.—For various breaches jof the motoring and cycling by-laws, the i following were dealt with:—Arthur B, | Ellis. 10/- and costs; Geoffrey Boyds (Mr B. B. Ward), dismissed; James i Stewart (Mr O. T. J. Alpers), 20/- and | costs; E. Baker. 10/- and costs; Bobert Hales, 10/-: Bobert Hay, 10/- and costs; Isabella Bain, convicted and dischargjed; John Telford, 10/- and costs; Colin I Craig, 10/- and costs; George Banks, 10/- and costs: John Brown, 5/- without costs; Harold Wigett. 10/- and costs; John Cawood, 5/- without costs; Edward Yeoman. 10/- and costs; Maurice Warren, 40/- ami costs; Ernest Archiboid, 40/- and costs; Leonard Fisher, 40/- and costs; Neil Brodie McCallum, 20/- and costs; David Hutton Edgar, 20/- and costs; Thomas Albert Baillie, 20/- and costs; Charles Seaton Kellaway, 20/- and costs; Edward Hammond, 20/- and costs; Campbell Grey, 10/- and costs; John Caskie McDonald, 20/- and costs; Jack Warman (two charges), 40/- and 10/- with costs; Walter J. Scott. 10/- and costs. James Watts, charged with allowing four horses to wander at large at New Brighton, was fined 20/- and costs.