POLICE COURT NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 September 1926, Page 2

POLICE COURT NEWS.

NEW PLYMOUTH CASES. BREACHES OF THE BY-LAWS. HOLDING ON TO ELECTRIC BUS. A variety of minor eases was dealt with in the Police Court at New Plymouth yesterday. Mr. R. W. Tate, S.M., was on the bench. A charge of resting bis hand on the electric bus and being towed along Tukapa Street on his bicycle was preferred against a boy named Charles Minhinniek. Inspector Day said that the prosecution was brought under the by-laws for the reason that eueh an action was considered dangerous. Only recently a boy had been killed in a North Island town through performing a similar act. Foi this reason the offence was regarded as a serious one. The prosecution wiw> brought in the hope that it would be a warning to other hoys. The hoy was convicted and ordered to' pay 7s costs. YOUNG BULL AT LARGE. A fine of £1 (costs 7s) was imposed on George Tippens for allowing a bull to wander at large in Smith Street, Vogeltown, on September 11. Defendant, wrote a letter to the court stating that someone must have opened the gate of the paddock in which the bull was kept after he had left it, as it was quite secure when he went away. Inspector Day said that the bull was ar large just outside the Vogeltown School, and though a fairly young one was “quite cheeky” for its age. Several children were so frightened of it that they could not leave the school grounds. “The straying of a bull is a much more serious thing than the straying of other animals,” remarked the magistrate in imposing the fine. ILLEGALLY ON PREMISES. For being on the licensed premises of the Breakwater Hotel after the hour of closing on September 13, Herbert Standring was fined £1 (costs 7s). On a similar charge with regard to the Royal Hotel, Charles Kingsley Forrester was fined £2 (costs Ils). MILITARY DEFAULTERS. Douglas Lobb, who had, since first being charged with failure to return uniform and equipment to the Defence Department, returned the full issue to the authorities, was discharged on payment of 7s costs. Failure to register for military training until this year cost Francis Stella, who is now 20 years of age, a fine of £1 and costs 7s. REMAND ON SERIOUS CHARGE. On four eeperate charges of carnally knowing a girl at Waitara under the age of 16 years, a Native named Fisher Kapa appeared on remand, and was further remanded until October 27, on the application of his counsel.