COLLECTED BOOKS.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 911, 4 November 1933, Page 11

COLLECTED BOOKS.

Three Months’ Imprisonment for Labourer. Collecting books from suburban homes for a .circulating library, Charles Hamilton Romer, a labourer, 45 years of age, allegedly iold them and ’spent the money on drink. Complaints were received by the police and as a result Romer appeared in the Magistrate’s Court before Mr H. A. Young, S.M., this morning, charged with being an id: and disorderly person with insufficient means of support. Accused pleaded not guilty, but the Magistrate said that he had twenty previous convictions for offences of the same kind, and sentenced him to three months’ imprisonment, with hard labour. Senior-Sergeant Fox said that complaints had been received that accused had been visiting houses near Bealey Avenue,, begging for books, which he sasd were for a circulating library. He had also stated that tin* books were •for the Ashley camp. The books had been sold, and it was alleged that the money had been spent on drink. Accused said that the books he had sold were given to him by neighbours. The others he had collected were ad his home: Convicted and Discharged. George Thomas Watts, a labourer, 30 years of age, of Lonsdale Street, was convicted and discharged on a charge of stealing £3 10s, the property of Geoffrey Colville Bashford, ori September 18. Chief-Detective Dunlop stated that the case had been adjourned sine die to enable accused to be dealt with m the Supreme Court on a series of housebreaking charges. He had been sent to the Borstal Institute for three years. Remanded. °rr. a labourer, or Hanmer, aaed 5?. charged with a breach of a maintenance order in respect to his four Infant children, was remanded to appear on November 8. Senior-Sergeant Fox, in asking for substantial bail, said that defendant was £3OO In arrears, and the police had been looking for him for three vears. Bail was allowed, self £2OO and one surety of £2OO. Street Fight. Charges of fighting and using obscene language, in Cambridge Terrace were made against Joseph M'Ewan and Frederick Charles Olsen. M’Ewan, a labourer, aged 26. of Peterborough Street, was fined £2, in default seven days’ imprisonment, on the. charge of using obscene language, and lf>s and' costs on the charge of fighting Olsen. For fighting with M’Ewan. Olsen. a plumber, aged 24. of Keswick Street, was convicted and ordered to pay costs. He was convicted and discharged pn the charge of using obscene language.