MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 230, 30 September 1941, Page 7

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

PAINTER SENTENCED TO BORSTAL .MOTORING BREACHES. INSPECTORS’ ROUND-UP OF ’ STRAY DOGS. Found guilty on nine charges of theft ot tools, to the total value of £69 16s 9d, Harold Edwin Morgan, a painter, was committed in the Magistrate's Court, at Wanganui yesterday, to the Borstal Institute for a period not exceeding 12 months. William Harrison, for operating a motor vehicle without a current warrant of fitness was convicted and lined £1 (costs 3s). A fine of £5 was imposed upon Charles Cecil Sutton, for stealing 48 cabbages, valued at 12s, from the garden of Kwong Chung Fore, Aramoho. For beng found in a state of intoxicaion while in charge of a motortruck in Victoria Avenue, on September 21, Geoffrey Leslie Holly was lined £l5 (costs 3s, doctor’s fee £1 ls>. Charged with driving a motor vehicle without due care and attention, Sydney Frank Duffy was convicted and lined £3 (costs 16s, witnesses’ expenses 14s). For driving without a current warrant of fitness Duffy was lined 10s (costs 12s). Harry Cann was charged that, when operating a motor-vehicle in Plymouth Street, he failed to give way to traffic approaching from the right. The magistrate was of the opinion that a proper look-out had not been kept, and imposed a fine of £3 (costs 13s> Fines of 10s (costs 10s) were imposed on William Hopper and Ronald Francis Hoskins for riding bicycles at night without lights. For operating a motor-truck in Taupo Quay without a current warrant of fitness, Lorraine Turner was convicted and fined 10s ,costs 10s). For not registering his dog, Victor Horace Townsend was convicted and fined 10s (costs 10s). Isabel Duncan was convicted and fined 10s (costs 10s) for parking a motor-car too close to a corner, thereby obstructing traffic. A fine of 10s (costs 10s) was imposed on Ada M. Fowler for operating a motor-ear without a current warrant of fitness. Breaches of By-law. Complaints received by the Wanganui City Council regarding dogs being allowed to stray in the business area of the city, led to inspectors, under Inspector H. E. Tipper, conducting a round-up of these animals. The following persons were each fined 5s (costs 10s)Joseph Christopher Croswell, Ida B. Crothers, Alfred Henry Featherston, Margaret Glentworth, Robert Granville, Melva Gullery, I Keith Hodson, Louis Koorey, Ruby Maud Larsen, Jack Mead, Paul Minchin, George Francis McGrath, Marion Nelson. David Harold Roff, Eileen A. Sparrow, George Rushton, Claud Fisher and Elsie Wright.