PRACTICE MUST CEASE

Timaru Herald, Volume CLIII, Issue 22486, 22 January 1943, Page 6

PRACTICE MUST CEASE

Casting Of Offensive Matter OFFENDER FINED £2/10/“Therc have been a number of these cases and the practice will have to stop,” said Mr H. Morgan, S.M., when Frederick James Harris appeared before him in the Timaru Magistrate’s Court yesterday on a charge of casting offensive matter in Stafford Street on December 28. Harris, who pleaded guilty, was fined £2/10/-, with costs 10/-. Unlicensed Trailer Sydney Thomas Webster appeared on two charges of breaches of the traffic regulations. The first was that on October 13, 1942, at Fairlie. he operated an unlicensed trailer on the main street, and on the same date and at the same place he operated a motor lorry which had no warrant of fitness. Traffic Inspector D. Mackay, who prosecuted, said that the defendant had hired the trailer which he thought was registered, but which was not. He had later registered it. The truck had been overhauled and the defendant thought it was in order, but the firm which did the overhaul had stated it was only fit for wSrk in the bush and not on a thoroughfare. Webster explained that he was engaged on an urgent timber delivery at the time and he had to get all available vehicles at the shortest notice. It had cost him £l4 to register vehicles which he had borrowed for two days’ work. On the first charge the defendant was ordered to pay costs 12/-, and on the second he was fined 10/-, with costs 10/-. Youths In Trouble Two youths, who were represented by Mr G. J. Walker, were charged with being found without lawful excuse on enclosed premises. Senior-Sergeant S. King explained that the two youths had attended a dance at Caroline Bay on the night of January 2. When the dance finished at midnight they went into town to obtain a meal, but were unable to do so. Later they went into a glasshouse, in which there were grapes, on the property of Mr Stuart in Evans Street. When Mr Stuart’s son arrived home at 1.30 a.m., he found the youths in the glasshouse and locked them in. He then summoned the Police. On the application of Mr Walker, the Magistrate agreed to deal with the offenders in the Children’s Court next week. For cycling in North Street on the night of January 6 without a light, Duncan Fisher Hunter was fined 10/-, costs 10/-. Wallace Findlay made a voluntary appearance on a charge of cycling in Church Street on the night of January 15 without a light and was fined 10/-, costs 3/-.