TRANSFER OF REVOLVER

Taranaki Daily News, 27 August 1931, Page 4

TRANSFER OF REVOLVER

PICKED UP ON BATTLEFIELD BREACH OF ARMS ACT ALLEGED. (POLICE COURT IN NE'W PLYMOUTH “It war, an old Bulgarian revolver and I don’t think anyone could fire it,” said . Gilbert. Edward Jago when charged in the New. Plymouth 'Police Corjrt yes- ’. terday with delivering a weapon to another person on April 24 without complying with the term!? of the Arms Act. In 1921 Jago had registered the revolver at Stratford, said Senior-Ser-geant McCrorie. He had given it away to a ship's officer who collected curios. • He had picked it up on a battlefield, 1 sai-i Jago. It /as about- 200 years old and had a pin-fire. No one. could ’ fire it.. He had registered it.under pro- » test. He had, given it to Captain Bur- . ton Davies, of the s.». Hertford, whp was looking f° r curios. The captain -could substantiate that on hm return to New Plymouth. Jago considered the ~pro?ecutioi> was rather trivial. The magistrate pointed ccit the necessity for . complying with, the terms of the Arms Act so that trace could be kept of firearms. He asked if it would not be possible properly to transfer the weapon to Davies. ■ ' -Senior-Sergeant McCrorie: But he is away from the Dominion.and han prob-ably-left it; at Home. / Jago: He will be back here within the next, six months. . Mr. Tate-said lie would adjourn the mitter for a month to see whether there was a way out. UNREGISTERED RADIO SET. HELD MORE''THAN SEVEN DAY'S. : - “I will treat this matter leniently by imposing a fine of 10s with 10s coots, . said Mr. Tate after hearing G. M. Webster explain how he came to -be in possession of a rac. set without a license on August 1. “It was a new set,” said Webster. 1 “We had had it just over a month and •were waiting .for its permanent installation.” , . ’ The magistrate: These people ..with sets will have to see that they have licenses as soon as the sets are put an ? The companies concerned will have to gee that i* ere are licenses. Senior-Sergeant McCrorie said purchasers could have sets’ on approval for . seven days, but it was usually 14 days ‘ before action was taken.

Webster said, he had not been aware of the need to register a set on approval after seven days. He had registered as.soon as he. knew.

PASSENGERS TO A DANCE.

MORE THAN LICENSED FOR,

Because he carried in his motor-car more than the maximum load permissible without a license James Oliver Harland was fined £2 and 10s costs.; “And if this sort.of thing goes on I iShall. have to make the fines heavier still,” observed Mr. Tate. Harland drove ’ten passengers to - a dance on July 30,. said Chief Inspector Day. The greatest number of passengers allowed without a license was seven. "Somebody was clever enough to •telephone the man's employer 60 that subsequent lots of passengers that night ■were transferred to buses to comply with the law,” said Mr. Day. "Although the joke was against us We appreciate the cleverness of the driver in being able to warn the owner, T. •N. Blackball.” Harland explained that he had been engaged to pick up passengers but when he arrived at the house he found-.the extra passengers there, aiid could not turn .them down. Mr. Day said that only a taxi license was required to carry up to seven passengers, but over ‘that the vehicle was required to pay a.’ heavy traffic license, which.: in this would have amounted to £l5.

DID not pay their levies.

TWO MEN BEFORE THE COURT.,

Claude Peter Gordon Hoskin and Barry, Williain Kerr were each -charged •with defaulting for more than one month in the payment of three quarterly unemployment levies. Representing the Unemployment Board, Mr, C. P. Smitji said that up to the time the proceedings were iustituted Hoskin was epiployed at £4 a week. He had explained to the constable making inquiries that he could not pay owin* to his financial circumstances. Since •the proceedings were instituted he had lost his position. Hoskin said he had a family- of six. He was now out of. work but had been .o-ettiim- £3 10s, ..which had latterly been ■increased to £4 a week. Altogethci four boys in the family were unemployed. One boy had a bad foot but he would not send him to the hospital to be operated on because he could not afford to pay for it. Replying to the magistrate. Mr. Smith said Hoskin would have to register as unemployed- but he could not be placed in work until he had paid his levies. However, the Hospital Board had met cases of this kind, those benefiting payin«- the board back afterwards. Even the men on relief had to pay their levies and they were as-hard upas oneThe magistrate said he did not want to make it hard for Hoskin, but he must pay. He would adjourn the case for two weeks to enable some arxinger-ient to be made. Kerr said 'he had registered and thought th it indicated his willingness to pay. He did not know he had to sit on the doorstep with the money. He bad paid on. -July 24. He was lined £1 and KV costs.

BURIED HORSE I T T BOROUGH.

BREACH OF BY-LAWS PUNISHED.

Th? interment of a horse on a section in Street, New Plymouth, on August 4 cost George Pippins Do and 10s costs because he had broken the boro > by-laws, while for driving- a motor-car without a heeiwe on tne Cai rin-ton Road on August 13 he was lined another 10s .vith UM costs. . . -1 saw a grave and found something buried not more than two feet from the surface," said Mr. Day when describing the result of. a. visit to ; t ; he From Tippins’, sop he father had buried,.* horse.,

he had cut the horse up before burying if. At the inspector’s- instigation he covereel more, soil Over the grave and made it- more satisfactory. _ In answer to the magistrate, Mi. Day said the section was at Vogeltown. The trouble was that Tippins had laud around the school. Neighbours had complained. "We want people to know that they can’t bury -cattle in the borough, he said. . , , , , , The magistrate,: It might haye had serious effects.

Mr. Day: Yes. Havimr allowed three cows to wander bn the Tate Road without proper guidance on July G, Thomas Ewens was fined- Ids and 10s ebsts.

RODE to look for work.

YOUTH WITHOUT A LICENSE.

"I had been out of work a good' while and I borrowed my brother’s motorcycle to ride to Rahotu to got a job for both of us,” said Robert Lamond Till after admitting that he had ridden without a license on the South Road, Omata, on August 7. “I missed it by about half an hour'” he added. “I had no money to get a license. He was fined 10s with 12s costs. He iad bi looking for work and it was just bad luck that he arrived home after sunset, .wrote Clarence Haskell when admitting that he had ridden a bicycle without a lam - on Devon Road at 7.40 p-ni. on July 13. Inspector Day questioned the accuracy of parts of the letter. His impression was < -at Haskell had been home but, beinn- too lazy to walk, he had jumped on ai cycle to' ride into town. He admitted the man was hard up and had dependents. - ~ The magistrate: If he had been run flown by a°motor-car 1 suppose he would have wanted heavy compensation 2 . Mr.'Day': Yes, sir,. He would have been - worth a- lot of money then. “Do you often see this man?” asked Mr. Tate, turning to Inspector Blyde. who -laid the information.

"Yes. sir.” “Well, tell hi. i 1 want to see him here next Wednesday to say why I should not fine him the same amount as others—£l and 10s costs. The matter is adjourned a' week.”

HAD 11-JEFFICIEITT BRAKES,

"IN BAD FINANCIAL POSITION.”

A plea of guilty was eirtered. by Herbert Bright to a charge of driving a motor-lorry on the South Road, Omata. without ellicient brakes. The offence occurred on August 7. said Inspector Aroa. Bright lived on the Pitone Road and was in a bad financial position. He had twelve children, ten of whom were at home. The eldest was 19. He had no work and he bought a lorry to cart firewood in order .to keep his wife and family. The repair bills were running up and that, was probably why he had not had the brakes attended to.’ .It would cost £l4 to put the brakes in order, and as the lorry was now in a garage he could not use it. ‘•I don’t know w.liat Your Worship can do,” added the inspector, “but I had to bring the case as it was one of the 'worst of its kind.” In view of the circumstances he would treat Bright leniently, said the magistrate He would enter a conviction and assers the penalty in three months’ time. Bright must not drive while the brakes were inefficient.