MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21411, 1 March 1935, Page 7

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

THURSDAY (Befo re Mr E. D. Mosley. S.M., DISORDERLY BEHAVIOUR JiTol gui»y to behaving in a disJK manner m Chester street on t***" 3 - 17 were made by John ** John P. Drake, Norf<S and James Nichol Orr, 1530 were 'represented by Mr A.J. Om 11 n , ,hc cneekiest hood"B*?*! Cbristdiurch. without a «id Sub-Inspector D. A. Mac- ****• fr. ronducted the prosecution. y«»-^ hO , constabl« had found the He s ß ' o JVinkinc near the Edmonds iccused drinking ]h( njghf of Fobj . u . ba,d ,"aSunday. They had a gallon «' I'W When the constable to d & their' ronduft was annoying to i.W» »»*" , hev became abusive. P ~, L-l'off in response to the eonbut later they went the constable and asked him W ck , „:„. Then they went to the *,rt& and asked to see the i f» ijce - .Lnripnt At the station their that a good birching t»°fuL done them good. *«r CottreU said the case was more „# insolence than anything else. cSable told the accused A»sJfon he came up to Orr, drew ?« Side, and told him he was asso- *??■£ v. ith undesirables. The others back to the constable to find Shi he had classed them as un- ?**•-£'« They received no satisfrom him. and accordingly They were foolish ***. » and had they not gone there W t,hu: nothing more would have pro babij nothing JfJffiJy The accused had had a Lrere lesson, he said. *-nfe conduct of the constable was j-tirable and worthy of all praise, fflSd the magistrate He said the Sftiouble was that the accused had 22. charged with an offence for Sh he could not send them to *£ in the first instance Each would Kd £2 and ordered to pay costs. I, default of payment within seven " w the accused would be sentenced to 21 days" imprisonment. THEFT Allan Mangels, aged 32. pleaded euilty to the theft on February 19 of £i It the property of Alice Rowe. Cbief-Detective W. H. Dunlop said &e accused's lapse was due to drink. He had never been before the court

previously. Already the accused had begun to "make restitution. Mangels was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if called upon «o do so within 12 months. He was ordered to take out a prohibition order end to repay £3 lis by instalments. ON LICENSED PREMISES !>eslie R. Sisson was fined £1 and ordered to pay costs for being on licensed premise;, after hours. NO PERMITS FOR FIREARMS Hugh Lionel Ryan pleaded guilty to two charges of obtaining firearms without permits, and two charges of failing to register firearms in his possesion He was fined 10s on the first charge of obtaining a firearm without a permit, was ordered to pay costs on the first charge of failing to register a firearm, and on the other two he was convicted and discharged. FALSE STATEMENT Thomas Warnock McClelland pleaded guilty to making a false statement to obtain employment from the Unemplovment Board. He said that he had

made the statement under a misunderstanding. Defendant was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if called upon •«-;!hin 12 months. He was ordered to refund £6 to the board by instalments of 5s a week, the first payment hi be nfsdc on March 7. Charged with the same offence, Kobtr' CufhbTt Brien pleaded not fi:?*:. The chanje wa«= dismissed. HEHEARING GRANTED An application by Ernest Ackernian Smith, a farmer, of Leeston. for the rehearing of two charges under the Unemployment Amendment Act was jrantfd. At the previous hearing, when Smith did not appear, he was fined -25 and ordered to pay costs on the charge?. The certifying ofiiccr, Mr M. nho prosecuted, said that since the \*&. hearing Smith had paid the balance of tax due bv him- amounting 'o £l4 85 (id. He' believed Smith's memory was not so sood as it might fee. Smith was ordered to pay costs on each charge, a total of £l. CHARGE DISMISSED Walter Campbell White, of St. Asaph etreet, a salesman, aged 33, was charged with obtaining £4 from John fleginald Woodley by means of a false pretence. He pleaded not guilty. The magistrate dismissed the charge wi the ground that the evidence was wt entirely satisfactory. REMANDED P«er .Sharp Russell, a labourer, *ged 40, of no fixed abode, was remanded until March 5 on three charges: '1» The theft of a bicycle valued at £1 th<? property of George Duncan McDonald; (2) (charged under the same of Andrew Reid), obtaining from Cisaicey Brothers, at Wanganui, a mcj'cle valued at £l4 8s 6d by a ttise pretence; <3) (charged under *w name of Andrew Reid), assaulting «iuiam Langslow, at Wanganui. Ujjef-Detective W. H. Dunlop said irat there were other charges pendCIVIL CASES 'Before Mr H. A. Young, S.M.) JUDGMENTS BY DEFAULT Judgment for plaintiff by default «u given in each of the following Bristol Piano Company. Ltd., v. A. Wbell. £4 15s; G. W. Smith v. •is>e* Mahoney, £4 14s 2d; Trade Company of New Zealand, &»«/• ?p* nrer f; - Smith - £l ° 8s ; «aw>. and Company. Ltd., v. Thomas McA «Shtrie. costs only; Mac"«*ne and Company, Ltd.. v. Mrs L'd £ y ' £l ° 16s 6d : Benjamins, Bubh»r r °- Hay ' costs onl - v: Para r» /* Company, Ltd., v. F. Tur«iß™ ' 6d; R Billingham. trading and Keaton. v. John FowHemZ, L f 9d: Ca »terbury Hotel and

S U nf n u, Employees' Industrial AI p or £ crs v - Iris Ho °p er - £1 £1 n*" h R - Pltma » v - H. F. Wright, *wS»n g f? if d Z 2 xley v - Jack te «ipson, £7 15s 6d; Beath and ComA. i'lw' v - Du Sgan, £3 18s 6d; *« tnf m j j Carter - £1: Ackr °y d «"TwEi Meadowcroft. Ltd., v. Bright *? Z (Jl 16s 3d: J " Mawson Stew- «* 2nS?«J d ? t .°r of Gr aham. Wilson, «*■ oni' L(d " v - HJ - Chirnside, Samuel k WAR P CASES •*«3i h? en " r ' d - v - a « inspector of fcvfej »(%?*? £l ° from Joseph , *4wi»7'i" prare road - Pain*?'-. te ««pISL r? a - to pa - v award rates **Effi, flve , lm Ploycos. C. Clav«K, JS \°l k \ J - Vautier. W. Cohk ,' for allegedly ff*»waii« award rates of Pay--9*«5 tL? re f nted fa y Mr W j. **«r. e en, Ployees by Mr K. G. fiS «nrS H s P lient * d not ad- * he aw *rd ( and the 2* **» coneorn l eratlve astern, all ■£» and the division fing was adjourned to next j. for in. *«*B*tfa Voean I u Was S ivt 'n against ° Ban - a butcher, of Kil-

more street, in favour of the inspector of awards, on a claim for £lO for failure to close his shop at the required time on the trade picnic day.