POLICE COURT NEWS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11505, 29 September 1915, Page 5

POLICE COURT NEWS.

. « TO-DAY'S CASES. (Before Mr T. X B. Bailey, S.M.) I)RU,NKE.XXKSS. George Newman, a, second offender, was fhucl 10s. in default foi'ty-eip.iit hours' imprisonment, on a charge of drunkenness. Jdm Campbell, charged with drunkenness for the third time in. s'x months, denied the charge, lie was remanded for a week for medical treatment. A first offender was fined 03, with the usual alternative. BY-LAW BREACHES. On a charge, of cycling on a footpath. Frederick Fielding was lined 7s and i costs. | Leonard George "Whithicr, charged ' with cycling at night without a liefht, | was fined 10s and costs. George Thomas, charged, with riding ' a motor-cycle without a side-car lioht. I and without a registration number, was fined os and costj on each charge. John Hall, charged with driving a motor-cycle without a side-car lkdit, was fined os and costs. Walter Brook Tavior, charged with driving a motor-cyefo over the Bank of Saw Zealand crossing at more than a walking pace, was fined 10s and costs. George Moody, charged with allowing a horse to wander at large in St A!» bans, was fined os and costs. Leonard 11./ Wilson was charged with driving a vehicle weigh l ' up; over li ton | :n Heathc;:te County without a license. : Defendant, an asph'altsr, said he con- | sidered the County Council's wheel tax j an unjust ee.e. as he used the county roads so seldom. He admitted the offence, but protected that the tax was not enforced justly. A fine of £I- and costs was passed, the fine to be reduced to 10s if the license fee, (£3 10s) iymo fi^^^^jjirteei^^^^^^^^^