MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16319, 7 January 1921, Page 8

MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

TO-DAY’S GASES. CHRISTCHURCH. (Before Mr V. G. Day, S.M.) A FALSE IMPRESSION. * 1 was muddled up, your Worship," said Donald Ma the son, a statutory second offender, who was charged with drunkenness and having broken Ills prohibition order. “ I had had no sleep for two or three days, and I had a glass or two of l>eer, it being New Year time. I am going back to a prohibition district. I was under the impression that my prohibition order had run out/* Matheson w-us fined 20s, in default forty-eight hours’ imprisonment, for breaking hri order. lie Mas convicted iTnd discharged on the other charge. DAMAGED HELMUT. C ! arl August Kdinginberg was fined bn Sor a* first offence of drunkenness, and ordered to pay 20s damage which no had don© to a policeman’s helmet, FIRST OFFENDERS. Two first offenders were each fined 5a ior drunkenness. Another first offender who had been drunk nu a railway platform was find 1 Os. A MOTHER’S COMPLAINT. Rachel JhLopa, a girl, appeared on a charge of being iale and disorderly. The complainant, the girl's mother, said tnab her daughter was out at all hours of the night and carrying on m an undesirable manner. The Magistrate read a letter from defendant’s employer, in which it was ptated that defendant was earning 37s a week, and that she had been found quiet, unassuming and truthful. The girl was over sixteen years of age, and a free agent, said the Magistrate. As she was earning 37s a week, She could not be charged with being without means of support. The mother: I want her put away where she - The Magistrate: Well, I can’t put her away on this charge.

LYTTELTON, Before Captain R. Hatch well. J.P., F. G. Norton, J.R., James Wallace a/as charged with using obscene language, and was fined £5 or one month’s imprisonment.