MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 September 1939, Page 9

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

SITTING AT MASTERTON FALSE PRETENCES CHARGE. ACCUSED SENT TO GAOL. The fortnightly sitting of the Masterton Magistrate’s Court was held today. Mr H. P. Lawry, S.M., presided. Charged with having obtained groceries to the sum of £1 10s 7d by means of a false pretence, Frederick Flood, who pleaded guilty was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment. Senior-Sergeant G. A. Doggett, who conducted the case for the police, stated that Flood telephoned an order to James Watson, grocer, Masterton,_ representing himself as Mr Williams, manager of Glendonald Station, and requested that Messrs Falknor and Farrell, employees there, should be supplied with thirty shillings worth of goods. Flood called at the shop on the same day, stating that he was Falkner,” said Senior-Sergeant Doggett. “He then collected 21b. of tea and 41b. of sugar, and asked that the remainder of the goods be sent out. This man is married with two children, and he has several previous convictions,” said the Senior-Sergeant. On a charge of having failed to give way to traffic from the right of an intersection, Charles Gordon Mackessick was fined £3 and 12s costs.

Charged with having exceeded the 30 miles per hour speed limit in Queen Street, Masterton, Douglas David Wishart was fined £3 and 10s costs.

Constable R. Berry stated in evidence that Wishart passed over three intersections without sounding his horn and was travelling at about 40 miles per hour. When interviewed, Wishart denied travelling at 40 miles per hour. Henry Piper, charged with having negligently driven a motor-van on the Waingawa Bridge was fined £3 and 10s costs.