MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17351, 16 May 1924, Page 11

MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

CHRISTCHURCH. ([•Before Messrs W. J. Jenkin and S. C. Bingham, J.P.’s.) DRUNKENNESS. A first offender was fined ss, in default twenty-four hours’ imprisonment. BY-LAW BREACHES. William Muir wae lined os and coats ffor cycling on the footpath at Lower Sliccarton. Frederick G. Robbins was fined 5s (Bind costs for not having a rear light ion his -motor-car. William Gould was fined 20s and jposta lor driving a motor-car along the .North Road at a speed greater than "twelve miles per hour. Alister Y'arrall wa* fined 20s and koala for cycling at night without a light. Oscar Lundius was fined 10s and •costs for leaving a motor-car unattended m Lichfield Street. INFECTED SHEEP. Jeremiah Connolly. Arthur Graham, John Penny and Edwin Haines, who did not appear, were each fined 2&s and. costs for having exposed lieeinfected sheep for sale at the Addington saleyarda. Thomas Kennedy, similarly charged, said he had bought the sheep on the previous Friday and did not know that they were infected. Otherwise he would not have put them into the sale. He was fined 10s and costs George Seymour (Mr A. C. Frver) pleaded guilty to a similar charge. Counsel said Mr Seymour was manager of a large estate at the Chatham Islands and had shipoed a very hie So. rer , on ‘ wit), other sheep 5 Defendant had communicated with h,m since his return to the Chatham, and had said that after exam mine the remainder of his sheep on the island he £-as satisfied that the infection must hare taken place after tlier had left the islands. Defendant was fined 20s