THE COURTS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18500, 22 February 1930, Page 20 (Supplement)

THE COURTS

SIX DRINKS COST £2O. By TeleAanh—Press Association. WELLINGTON, February 21. Andrew Anderson, a licensed carrier, who was found in an intoxicated state while at the wheel of his lorry, was fined £2O. He admitted having had six drinks.

FALSE RETURNS. By Telegraph—Press Association. DUNEDIN February 21. In the Police Court this afternoon, Leon Curtis, licensee of Mcßride’s Hotel, Queenstown, was found guilty on five counts of wilfully making false income tax returns. On the first charge he was fined £SO, and on each of the other four he was fined £3O, with costs 10/-, and solicitor’s fee £3/3/-. Five charges of negligently making false returns were withdrawn.

GIVING FALSE I IRE ALARMS. By Telegraph—Press Association. WAIHI, February 21. Four young men, charged at the Police Court with giving a false fire alarm, were convicted and fined £lO each, or one month’s imprisonment. The Bench emphasised the seriousness of the offence, and refused counsel’s application for suppression of their names and time in which to pay the fines.

PILFERING CARGO. By Telegraph—Press Association. WELLINGTON, February 21. At the Magistrate’s Court to-day a watersider named William George Reid was fined £lO for theft of two pairs of ladies’ knickers, valued at 6/-, the property of the Shaw Savill and Albion Co.