FINES IMPOSED

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVIII, Issue 21644, 3 May 1940, Page 4

FINES IMPOSED

Maintenance Order

Payments

Prompt Compliance

Essential

“The defendants should meet their obligations in these cases without being forced to do so,” remarked the Magistrate, Mr H. Morgan at the Timaru Magistrate’s Court yesterday, when the Maintenance Officer, Mr R. G. Sampson, mentioned that two defendants had made no attempt to make maintenance payments until summonses had been issued. “In one case £lO/15/- arrears of maintenance was paid into Court this morning,” said Mr Sampson. “These cases cause a bit of trouble as the defendants will make no payments until a summons is issued.”

The Magistrate: The imposition of a fine will be a lesson to these people to make maintenance payments at the proper time.

Douglas James Eddington and Leo Hosey were each fined £1 for disobedience of maintenance orders. James Alexander Mcßride, who was similarly charged, was sentenced to one month’s imprisonment with hard labour at Paparua Prison, the warrant to be suspended so long as he pays 2/6 weekly off arrears amounting to £ll/18/-, and keeps up the current payments. Drink at Dance Hall John Angus Barry pleaded guilty to a charge that he had had intoxicating liquor in his possession in the vicinity of the Gleniti School dance hall while a dance was being held on April 16. 1940. Senior-sergeant D. J. Hewitt said that Constable W. V. Ward had found the defendant with four bottlss of beer in his possession in the vicinity of the hall. Defendant told the Court that he had not originally intended to go to the dance, but had returned to his lodgings to change his shoes, and while there had collected the beer and taken it with him to Gleniti. A fine of £2/10/- and costs 10/- was imposed. Traffic Offences Frederick David Martin was fined 10/- and costs 10/- on a charge of failing to carry a warrant of fitness in his motor-car. A young man, whose name was ordered to be suppressed in the meantime, pleaded guilty and was remanded for one week on a charge of having unlawfully converted a motor-cycle, valued at £9O, to his own use. Senior-sergeant Hewitt said that defendant had taken the motor-cycle which belonged to a fellow employee. He had fallen from the machine which had been damaged to the extent of £7 or £B. As a result of the incident he had lost his employment. The Magistrate, who granted defendant’s application for suppression of his name, requested the Probation Officer and the Child Welfare Department to supply him with reports.