POLICE COURT.—Thursday.
(Before A. Betham, Esq., and R. F. Porter,
Esq., J.P's.
DRUNKENNESS.
Margaret Conway, John Fitzsymonds, and John Martin were each fined 55., frith costs, or to be imprisoned for twenty-four hours with hard labour. DBITNK AND DISOEDERLY. Joseph Symonds pleaded guilty to having been drunk, and having, on the evidence of Constable Wadman, been shown to have been also disorderly, was fined 20s. and costs, or to be imprisoned forty-eight hours with hard labor. MUNICIPAL POLICE ACT, 1866. W. J. Messenger was charged with a breach of this Act in having exposed meat for sale on shelves projecting over the footpath, contrary to the 15th sub-section of section 5. One of his men appeared, and pleaded guilty, and defendant was fined 20s. and costs. IMPOUNDING- ACT, 1869. James Linsey pleaded guilty to a breach of the above Act, in having tethered s horso on the green on Barrack Hill, and was fined 20s. and costs. DANGEEOTTS GOODS ACT, 1869. Samuel Brown was charged with a breach of the above Act, in having stored, on the 13th June, in certain premises in Chancerylane, and not included in his Dangerous Goods Act License, twenty-four tins of kerosene oil, liable to give off inflammable gas at a temperature under 110 degrees, Fahrenheit.
Defendant pleadc ' uilty, aud stated that, having a liceuse, he was not aware that he had been transgressing the Act. Mr. Wynn appeared for the City Board, and said that he had no desire to press for a heavy penalty. It was the first case of the kind, and he believed defendant was not aware of the offence, as it had been stored in a portion of his premises to which his license did not apply. But it was desired that it should be publicly known that in every future case the stringent provisions of the 4ct would be enforced. The Bench stated that it was compulsory to forfeit the goods, and as they appeared to have power, they inflicted the mitigated penalty of 20s. and costs.
The Court then rose.
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Auckland Star, Volume I, Issue 136, 16 June 1870, Page 2
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342POLICE COURT.—Thursday. Auckland Star, Volume I, Issue 136, 16 June 1870, Page 2
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