TAIHAPE NEWS After-Hour Trading

Wanganui Chronicle, 23 September 1950, Page 3

TAIHAPE NEWS After-Hour Trading

A line of £7 and costs 10s v, as imposed on Guy Archibald Nicholls, licensee of the Gretna Hotel, Taihape, who pleaded guilty in the Taihape Magistrate’s Court, before Mr. A. Coleman, S.M., to a charge of selling liquor after hours on September. He was represented by Mr. R. C. Ongley. Outlining the circumstances connected with, the charges Senior-Ser-geant R. Griffith said that Constable Cross had seen th two Maoris coming from the Gretna Hotel on Sunday, September 3, carrying a carton of beer each. This was placed in a taxi. An inspection of the car revealed the presence of two more cartons of liquor. When the constable questioned the licensee he said the men had ordered the liquor the day before and had collected it o n the Sunday. No payment was made for the liquor.

Mr. R. C. Ongley told the Court that the liquor had been charged to one of the Maori defendants. The two Maoris were worried as to how they were going to get the liquor to the hydro camp. It was not allowed to be taken on the hydro trucks. Eventually they went to the hotel and took delivery" of the liquor and put it in a taxi.

The magistrate said that the licensee should have known that arrangements for the sale of the liquor made on Saturday, September 2, could not be completed the following d<*. Both defendants were convicted and fined £2 each and cost 10s for being on licensed premises after hours. Selling Liquor Without Licence. John Allan McVicar, hotel porter at the Gretna, faced a charge of selling liquor without a licence. Defendant’s counsel stated that the offence occurred during McVicar’s second night on duty. A dance was in progress at the Town Hall and defendant was pestered by dancers for liquor. He refused on several occasions but one man was more persistent than the ethers and McVicar had eventually supplied him. McVicar was fined £4 and costs 10s. LET OFF FIREWORKS. Two young soldiers from Waiouru camp, George Gray and Kenneth Enoka were charged with setting off fireworks in Kuku Street, Taihape, so as to endanger, annoy or frighten passersby on August 23. SeniorSergeant Griffith said the two defendants had let off fireworks outside the Town Hall and had alarmed people in the street. Several complaints had bee n received regarding this class of offence and the case had been brought as a warning, said the senior sergeant, who added that crackers had been thrown against the walls of the Town Hall and women had been frightened. A fine of 30s and costs 11s was imposed in each case. CARELESS DRIVING. Colin Royle Davies pleaded guilty to a charge of driving without due care and attention in Robin Street on July 6. Senior-Sergeant Griffith said that Davies had knocked down a sign i n the middle of the street indicating that repair work was being carried out. The sign was resting against a drum and there was a lamp nearby. Defendant had admitted running into the sign and did not go back to see what damage he had done. Davies was fined £2 and costs 10s. WANDERING STOCK. H. L. Bosher, farmer, Mataroa, was fined £2 and costs 10s for allowing 10 dairy cows to wander at large on the Tiriraukawa Road on July 28. The prosecution was conducted by John Robinson, noxious weeds inspector. TRAFFIC OFFENCE. Clarence Stanley Capill, driver, of Taihape, faced a charge of carrying cn a goods service in a district not covered by his licence. Mr. W. C. Shaw prosecuted on behalf of the Transport Department. The evidence showed that Capill had been asked by stock agents to cart hurdles to Marton and had acceded to their request. Mr. Ongley said that Capill was unaware that he had committed an offence. Mr. Shaw said he was nn* asking for a heavy penalty. Capill was fined 10s and costs 10s. FAILED TO GIVE WAY.

For failing to give way at the Mataroa Road-Hautapu Street intersection to traffic on his right, Edward Alfred Finn, taxi driver, was fined £2 10s and costs 10s. Mr. W. C. Shaw said defendant had failed to give way to traffic and had caused three cars ..o “brake.” Mr. Ongley said Finn did not see the cars in question.

J. McCullough was fined 30s and costs for speeding. Mr. R. Peters said defendant had driven a truck at 45 m.p.h. The limit was 30 rn.p.h.

DISPUTE OXTER BOUNDARY FENCE. A dispute over a boundary fence between Mrs. Annie Bruce (Mr. R. C. Ongley) and Bernard Francis Gray, cabinetmaker, Taihape, was referred to the Court, for a decision. Mrs. Bruce made an application under the Fencing Act, 1948, for a sft. closeboarded wall to be erected on the boundary between her property ano Gray’? Mr. Ongley said the parties were neighbours and there were differences regarding the type of fence to bo erected. Mrs. Bruce wanted a closeboarded fence five feet high. Gray wanted a fence 3ft. 9in. high with four inches of space between the boards. Annie Bruce, married, of Moa Street, said she had lived in her house in Moa Street. Taihape for 31 years. Mr. Gray had been a neighbour of hers for four or five years. When she went there originally there was a sff. boarded fence between her house and that now occupied by Gray. Half o' the western fence was then sft. and the back fence was 6ft. She lived near the saleyards and wanted a closeboarded fence to keep the dogs out. A 3ft. 9in. fence would he too low to keep the dogs out and would allow an uninterrupted view of her property. She did not like this. Mr. Gray submitted that a 3ft. 9in. fence was sufficient. The magistrate: Why 3ft. 9in.? Defendant: Timber is scarce and expensive. I have given in to Mrs. Bruce in agreeing Io a board fencn. I had intended lo erect a cyclone netting fence. Mrs. Bruce can have her half of the fence sft. high and T could have mine 3ft. 9in. Tam a carpenter and would like to do the work mv.-elf. The magistrate inspected the properties and later gave his decision in favour of Mrs. Bruce. COUNCIL HOUSES. In a statement to the last meolim: I of the Borough Council the town ' < lerk reported that some months ag'' the council had offnred ihroo tonanJs j of council hotisos in Mo,a Slrenf flm right to purchase the dwellings, but