MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23962, 1 June 1943, Page 7

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

MONDAY 3,2 (Before Mr E. C. Levvey, S.M.) , 8 , PETROL REGULATIONS D< Francis Neville Blandford Ryman, a Ls butcher, pleaded guilty to having pur- si: chased five gallons of petrol under licence sc and used it for a purpose other than ve that set out in the application. Fr Detective-Sergeant H. Nuttall said Ry- 4.1 man had .been granted a licence for petrol for his motor-cycle to take him to his 47, work at Belfast. He had used the petrol bj not for his motor-cycle but in a car, and pj, he did not use the car to go to work. w: The Magistrate imposed a fine of £lO. Ea REMANDED Oa William James Connor, a labourer, Mi aged 19 years, and Lewis James Egan, a hotel porter, aged 18 years, were remanded to appear at Dunedin on June 3 on a charga of converting to their own use, but not so as to be guilty of theft, a motor-car valued at £350, the property of Frederick Sidney Avent. Howard Graham Baldwin, aged 19 years, a flight mechanic, was remanded to June 3 on a charge of the theft of £5, the property of Alan Stuart Anderson. Bail was allowed accused in his own recognisance of £2OO and one surety of £2OO, accused to report to the police as directed. OBSCENE LANGUAGE Hugh Thompson, aged's 4 years, pleaded guilty to a charge of drunkenness and to a further charge of using obscene language in a public place. Sub-Inspector J. F. H. Macnamara said the accused, a pensioner, had met a man in Hereford street, and without any apparent reason, he had roundly abused him and had used filthy language. When asked if he had anything to say. accused said, "I was very drunk, your Worship.” , "You must have been,” said the Magistrate. "On the charge of drunkenness, convicted and discharged: on the other, fined £6." A CHARGE OF BIGAMY Leonard Douglas Brown (Dr. A. *L. Haslam), a tractor-driver, aged 26 years, was charged with bigamy in that at Dunedin on December 21, 1939, he married Margaret Annie Wilson, and at Kaiapol on April 24, 1943, he went through the form of marriage with Nancy Kathleen Diver. Accused pleaded guilty and was committed to the Supreme Court for sent6BaU was allowed accused in his own recognisance of £2OO, and one surety of £2OO, a condition being that he report to the police as directed. ADMITTED TO PROBATION A youth charged with obscene exposure in a public place, was admitted to probation for a period of three years. Tne Magistrate said such offences must be viewed with abhorrence, and in only exceptional cases could they be treated leniently. He had had reports from the Probation Officer and from a specialist on the one before the Court. This was a case In which something less than imprisonment could be imposed. The difficulty the Court found in such cases was that the offender would not help himself in attempting to control a certain tendency. A specialist had recommended probation, and in complying with this he Would be following a most unusual course The name of the accused was ordered