MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24899, 12 June 1946, Page 3

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

(Before Mr H. P. Lawry, S.M.) FALSE PRETENCES Thomas McNeil (Mr P. H. T, Alpers) pleaded guilty to a charge of obtaining £2 from Clifford Lawrence Hulston under false pretences, and to another charge of attempting to steal a railway ticket valued at 14s. Sub-Inspector G. J. Payne said that the accused had accosted a man on the Dunedin railway station and borrowed £2 from him on the ground that he needed it to go to Christchurch, where, he said,, his mother had died. He promised to refund the money, but had failed to do so. On the other charge, accused had tried to get a refund on a rail ticket, which had previously been reported as lost. Mr Alpers for the accused said that drink was a factor in the offence. The accused was not one who constantly preyed on the community, and his offences showed little cunning. McNeil was sentenced to one month’s imprisonment on the first charge and seven days’ imprisonment on the second. VALUELESS CHEQUES Faithful Charles Meikle (Mr J. A. Kennedy) pleaded guilty to four charges of issuing four valueless cheques, and obtaining by them goods and cash to the total value of £52 10s. Detective-Sergeant A. A. Herron said that accused had been warned that his bank credit had gone down to £1 Is lOd, and had since gone on issuing these valueless cheques. . Mr Kennedy said that after the accused came out of prison after his last sentence he had become a bottle-dealer, but his business had suffered from lack of petrol. An elderly friend who had faith in Meikle was. prepared to make restitution if accused was given another chance and not sent to prison. Accused was a married man with eight children. The Magistrate said that he could not grant leniency. If restitution was made by someone else, there would be no punishment at all on Meikle. He was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment on each charge, the sentences to be cumula-

tive. REMANDED Norman Edgar -Stallard, charged under the National Service Emergency regulations with failing to render a return of income, as required by a special tribunal appointed under the regulations; was remanded to appear to-day. , INTOXICATED DRIVER Austin Edwin Westley, a master baker, was fined £2O for being intoxicated in charge of a car in Manchester street on June 10. Sub-Inspector Payne said that after, a collision at the intersection of Kilmore street, accused was found to be in a state of intoxication. He admitted having had seven beers. For. having no warrant of fitness, he was 10s and for having no driver’s licence he Was fined £l. Westley was also prohibited from obtaining a driver’s licence fcr the next 12 months. TRAFFIC OFFENCES Fines were imposed in cases b-ought by the Traffic Department of the Christchurch City Council:—No warrant of fitness: Ernest Adcock, 10s; Darcy Bunting, 20s; Raymond D. Comfort, 10s; Maxwell Morgan Doherty, 10s; Archibald G. Murray, 10s; P. Feron and Company, Ltd (E. J. New-

man, manager), 10s; William George Rowlands, 10s; Herbert Cecil Shaw, ss; Mitchell R. Shine, 10s; Frederick James Whitchurch, 10s; Vivian Arthur Williams, 20s. Cycling at night without a light: Kenneth Barr, 10s; Eric Baynton, 20s; Edward J. Betts, 20s; Alick Boyd, 20s; John Burrowes, 20s; George David Coull, 20s; Thomas Commons, 20s; Terence Cummins, 10s; Donald Farr, 20s; Noel Ford, 20s; William Gray, 20s; Arthur Hansen. 10s; John C. Hansmann, 20s; Walter Harris, 20s; Morris J. .Hogg, 20s; Walter Jeffs, 30s; John P. Lenihan, 30s; Edward Martin, 20s; Thomas Martin, 20s; Richard P. Mercer. 10s; Harold C. McCauley, 20s; Brian Palliser, 20s; Benjamin Plant, 20s; Jack Rosewarne, 20s; Eric Sykes, 10s. No heavy traffic licence, Fowler and Sons (Cecil B. Fowler and Roy H. Timperley), conviction without penalty. No silencer on vehicle, Darcy Bunting, 20s. Driving in manner which might have been dangerous, Vincent Hanstock. £3. Failing to keep to left, Leslie George Macbeth, £2; Herbert Cecil Shaw, 10s. Exceeding 30 miles an hour: George Charles Mather, £2. Proceeding against automatic lights, Allan McDonald, 20s. No driver’s licence, Allan McDonald, 10s. Overloading taxi, Russell S. Poole, 10s. Double-banking in traffic, Herbert James Walton, 10s. Overloading heavy traffic licence, Butler Timber Company (Chas. E. Trippner, manager), 10s. Parking over time limit, Rayfnond Francis Goldsborough, 15s, ' CIVIL COURT (Bdfore Mr Raymond Ferner, S.M.) Judgment for plaintiff by default was given in the following civil case: Precision Radio and Electric Service v. Edward Roy Payne. £5 10s. INFORMArtON DISMISSED The Magistrate refused to make an order when Christian de Rink (Mr J. Flesher) proceeded against Chew Lee Young (Mr D. W. Russell) for possession of the downstairs portion of premises at 8 Ferry road. Plaintiff said he was prepared to allow Young to use the upstairs part of the building as a dwelling, but he required the ground floor for structural alterations. He had offered Young another shop as alternative accommodation. Mr Russell said the case came under the amendment to. the Fair Rents Act and submitted that alternative accommodation was necessary. In refusing the application, the Magistrate said that the act applied and that the plaintiff would have to show greater hardship to succeed in the Claim. "I cannot make an order, and must therefore dismiss the informations,” he said.