POLICE COURT NEWS.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20281, 16 April 1934, Page 8

POLICE COURT NEWS.

Two Years’ Detention for Woman. Mr E. D. Mosley, S.M., presided at this morning’s sitting of the Police Court. Vera Veronica Mullins, twenty-four years of age, of Madras Street, was committed to the Salvation Army Reformative Institute at Dunedin for a term of two 3*ears, on a charge of being idle and disorderly in that she had insufficient lawful visible means of support. William Westcott Price, of Bracken Street, a plumber, sixty-one years of age, was fined 10s and costs, in default twenty-four hours’ imprisonment with hard labour for drunkenness, and £5, in default a month’s imprisonment with hard labour, for using obscene language in Chester Street. He was allowed seven days in w r hich to pay, Thomas Bell, of Cambridge Terrace, a blacksmith, fifty-eight years (Mr Flesher) was fined 10s and costs, in default twenty-four hours’ imprisonment with hard labour for drunkenness, and convicted and discharged lor a breach of his probation order.