TWO BICYCLES STOLEN

Taranaki Daily News, 20 July 1935, Page 10

TWO BICYCLES STOLEN

PROBATION FOR YOUTH ONE MACHINE AFTERWARDS SOLD. SITTING OF COURT AT HAWERA. Pleading guilty to two charges of theft | of bicycles and lamps, Ronald Douglas Richard Emmett, an Eltham farm labourer, aged 20, was admitted to probation for two years arid ordered to make restitution of damaged property and of moiley by Mr. W. H. Woodward, S.M., m the Hawera Magistrate’s Court yesterday. Sergeant J. Henry prosecuted. Emmett was charged with having stolen on February 18 a bicycle and electric lamp, valued at £4, the property of Jack Beamish, Hawera, and with having stolen a bicycle and lamp valued at £3, the property of Herbert Henry Pettett had left his cycle, about 7.15 p.m., between the Royal Hotel and the Grand Theatre,; said Sergeant Henry. Beamish left his bicycle near the band room in Albion Street. When both men returned the bicycles had gone. Early in July the police received' information that Emmett had tried to dispose of two cycles at Eltham.. The bicycles had had parts interchanged and the numbers on the frames had been filed off. Parts had been identified by the respective owners, but identification had been extremely difficult. Damage to the extent of £2 10s had been done to Pettett’s cycle and damage had also been done to Beamish’s machine to the extent of £1 17s. Emmett had been employed on a farm about two miles from Hawera, and it was while there that he had committed the thefts. The wheels of Beamish’s cycle had been placed in a cycle belonging to a woman who was unaware that the cycle had been stolen. As probation officer Sergeant Henry recommended that Emmett be placed on probation and be ordered to make good the damage. Mr. Woodward: You must understand, Emmett, that you are now a convicted thief and you must take what employment the probation officer finds for you. Sergeant Henry mentioned that one bicycle had been sold to an Eltham man who, in good faith, had paid £2 10s. The magistrate accordingly made orders for the return of the money to the purchaser, and of the return of the machines and parts of machines to Beamish and Pettett. An order prohibiting Emmett ( from entering billiards saloons was applied for by Sergeant Henry and granted by the magistrate. Conviction of Milk Vendor. Roye W. Stevens, Hawera milk vendor, charged with having milk of insufficient fat content available If or sale, was convicted and ordered to pay costs 10s. He was also ordered to pay the analyst s fee of 10s 6d and postage amounting to 2d. He pleaded guilty to the charge. On May 21, Mr. L. Hunt, borough inspector, took a sample of milk from Stevens’ supply, said the sergeant. The milk had been deficient in milk fat and Stevens, in dipping the milk from a twogallon can, apparently had omitted to stir the cream, with the result that, near the bottom of the can, there was not sufficient fat. The inspector said the lowest percentage of fat allowed under the regulations was 3.25, compared with 2.6 in Stevens’ sample. “You will have to see that the milk is properly agitated in future,” Mr. Woodward told Stevens. Failure to Report. For failing to report art accident on the Waihi Road, A. J. Sangster, Stratford, who pleaded guilty by letter, was fined £2, costs 10s. On May 15 Sangster was returning to Stratford from Manutahi and on the Waihi Road, after passing another car, lost control, the car going through a boxthorn hedge, said Sergeant Henry. One of the passengers was injured, but the matter was not reported, and by the time the police arrived on the scene the car had been driven off. It had taken the police some time to locate the car but Sangster, when interviewed, had admitted the charge. Miscellaneous Matters. G. Greig and E. H. Gulliver were both fined 30s, costs 10s, for failing to renew radio licenses. Douglas W. Davies was convicted and ordered to pay costs amounting to 5s for allowing his chimney to catch 'fire. A siiriilar charge against J. P. Evans was. dismissed as trivial after Evans had explained that he had recently arrived' at Hawera from Auckland and had lit a fire in the grate of an old house. For driving a van without a driver’s license, Albert Edward Nil was fined 10s, costs 10s. Charles Frederick Williams, on a charge of disobedience of a maintenance order, was sentenced to imprisonment for one month,’ 14 days being allowed for payment. Undefended Civil Cases. Judgment for plaintiffs by default was given in the following cases: George and Doughty Ltd. v. R. Rees, £6 19s lid (costs £1 14s 6d); T. W. Wall Ltd. v. A. W. Skevington, £1 8s (£1 7s 6d); G. Syme and Co. Ltd. v. Samuel Berg, £3 9s 6d (£1 3s 6d); E. R. Hardley v. D. Sales, 14s 3d (8s).