THE COURTS.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16725, 7 January 1920, Page 5

THE COURTS.

. MAGISTERIAL

TUESDAY. (Eefbw Hr S. E. McCarthy, S.M.) DRUNKENNESB. A male statutory first offender woe convicted, &nd ordered to oome up for •entoooe when called upon, on tie cbarge of drunkenness, conditionally on his remaining' in the Salvation Army jlome for twelvo month®. A femkle statutory first offender wan fined £t, In default iS hoars' imprisonment. THEFTS. Hjertry liecmard Braddiotf, foreman at "B" Railway Shed, was chargod with etealing iron and timber to the value of £7 '2b, the proporty of some persona unknown. After considerable evidence bad been heard, accused, wlko persistently alleged that he had not stolen the goods, was sentenced to three months' imprisonment. Three sister*, May and Rose Tirxnelly, and • younger sister, a juvenile, all ol whom had been employed at the Chrwtchurch Hospital ae wardemaida» were charged with theft, the first-named with Laving stolen goods valued at £17 lSe, the property of the Hospital Board, tho eooond with having stolen goods to the value of £2 17a Gd, 1-h« property of the Board, and the third sister with Laving stolon good* v&lned it 8s 6d, tho property of another wardsmajd, Edith Fowler. Evidence na . given that for gome years thieving' at tho hospital had been a somewhat tenons matter. TTie *ocuscd had boen cugbt stealing, bnt it waa not suggested that they were tho only culprits. Tho two elder girls were ordered to ooroo up for eentcnoo wbon called upon, and to report to the Probation Officer weekly for twelve months, also to pay certain expenses, and tho juvenile offenaor'wsn ordered to report to tho Human Catholio print in her district oneo a week for tr/olv® months.

"Diggers'' who were in the Featherston camp at the time of the armistice would hardly recognise it now as the same place. All the flower plots, so carefully attended by fatigue parties axe overgrown -with weeds, and the white-waaliecf stones are scattered fibout in all directions by cattle. At the CI camp at Tanherinibau the buildings were eold last week. All the patient/; have lion- been removed from TYatherston, and the camp will in future bo used for storing equipment.