MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24907, 21 June 1946, Page 3

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

THURSDAY (Before Mr G. G. Chisholm, SAI.) REMANDED Harold McLean Bellman, aged 29, a woolclasser (Mr E. W. Reeves), was remanded to appear to-day on a charge of carrying a dangerous weapon, an Automatic Colt revolver. Bail was allowed in self £5O. with one surety of £5O. FINED FOR THEFT Myrtle Darrell, aged 21, a waitress, pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing a silver-plated teapot and a silver-plated water jug, of a total value of £5, the property of Stonehurst Private Hotel, and was fined £5. VALUELESS CHEQUE A plea of guilty was entered by Selwyn George Harris, aged 32, a labourer,

who was charged with obtaining £lO from Walter Wilson. Matawhero, by falsely representing that a cheque for that amount, and signed *'G. S. Harris,” was a good and Valid order. Detective-Sergeant A. A. Herron said that the accused was at present serving a sentence erf imprisonment. The Magistrate imposed a sentence of three months’ imprisonment with hard labour. DISORDERLY BEHAVIOUR “This is an unusual case of disorderly behaviour, and the accused is lucky that he was not charged with a more serious offence,” said Sub-Inspector G. J. Paine when William Davys was charged with disorderly behaviour at New Brighton on April 23. > The accused had been lying on the sandhills on the New Brighton beach, continued Sub-Inspector Paine, and he had been naked. Some girls had seen the accused and they had reported the matter to the police. A police sergeant had gone to the sandhills, and the accused was then wearing an overcoat but no other garments. He had said that he was sunbathing, but at the time there was hardly any sun. One of the girls had seen the accused naked on the beach on a previous occasion. A fine of £3 was imposed. CONVICTION ENTERED George William Scott, aged 46 (Mr J. K. Moloney), pleaded not guilty to a charge that, being a person against whom a maintenance order had been made at Wanganui, while money and arrears were unpaid, he . attempted to leave New Zealand without permission in writing from a magistrate. ) Evidence was given that the order provided for payment of £1 17s 6d a week, in respect of three children of the accused. Arrears on June 10 totalled £5 12s 6d. Detective-Sergeant J. J. Hhlcrow said that he had arrested the accused, who had signed on the steamer Hopepeak, which was loading at Lyttelton for overseas. The accused had told witness that he had arranged with the ship’s master to make an allotment for payment of the maintenance, and the witness had interviewed the master, who had confirmed the statement that the accused had asked him to make arrangements for an allotment of £4 every fortnight. Mr Moloney said the accused had pleaded not guilty so that the facts could be aired in Court. He had committed an offence, but he had not known that he required the permission of a magistrate before he could leave the Dominion, and he had made arrangements for the payment of maintenance. The accused was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if called upon within six months, on condition that he paid the total arrears within one month and made regular payments thereafter. NAME SUPPRESSED

A married woman, whose name was ordered to be suppressed, was admitted to probation for 12 months, when she was convicted of the theft of a woman’s overcoat valued at £lO, the property of Doris Johannis.

Detective-Sergeant Herron said that the overcoat had been stolen from the comSlainant’s house in May, 1945. Last March le complainant had seen the accused, and the coat which was wrapped about a baby was the one stolen from her house. The accused had said that she had bought the coat from a shop in Auckland, but later she had returned the coat and said it had been given to her by a woman named “Jean.” Police inquiries had failed to find the woman.

After evidence had been given, Mr' K. J. McMenamin, who appeared for the accused, submitted that the evidence had not proved the charge, and that it could not be presumed that the accused had stolen the coat, as it was found in her possession eight months after the theft. LICENSING ACT Edward Ernest Corkin and Charles Griffiths were each fined £1 and ordered to pay costs for being on the licensed premises of the Grosvenor Hotel after hours. Robert Black McKeown, licensee of the ’

3ower Hotel (Mr F. D. Sargent), pleaded guilty to selling liquor after hours, and was fined £lO. The following men were each fined £1 for being on the hotel premises after hours:—Alister James Atkinson, Colin Murray Atkinson, John Neville Davison, Trevor Charles Le Vavasour, William Henry Marriott, Thomas Ryan, Wesley George Smith, and Reginald Adams Walter. For removing liquor from licensed premises after hours, David Kappus was fined £2.

CHARGES. DISMISSED Charges of opening for sale and of supplying liquor after hours against John Green, licensee of the New Albion HoteV, for whom Mr R. L. Ronaldson appeared, were dismissed. Cyril Hooker. pleaded not guilty to a charge of being on the licensed premises of the hotel. The charge was dismissed. - LIQUOR NEAR DANCE For having liquor near a dance hall, Jack Ramsden was fined £2. CIVIL COURT (Before Mr Raymond Ferner, S.M.) Judgment for plaintiff by default was given in the following cases:—New Zealand Farmers’ Co-operative Association of Canterbury, Ltd., v. G. W. Smith, £5 4s 3d; William Eric Minty Xy. D. Bell, £2 3s 9d. JUDGMENT SUMMONS On a judgment summons, W. V. Smith was ordered to pay W. J. Bultitude £9 18s 6d forthwith, in default 11 days’ Imprisonment, the warrant to be suspended as long as 10s a week is paid.