MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2523, 31 July 1915, Page 12

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

MILK VENDOR FINED £5 A charge of selling milk not obtained from a registered dairy was preferred against Donald Cook in the Magistrate's Court yesterday. Defendant did not appear. ' Mr. Alexander Cook, Inspector for the Agricultural Department, said that defendant was deliberately trying .to evade the law. None of tho suppliers from whom defendant got his milk had their, premises in a fit state to comply with' the Dairy Industry Act in respect to registration.. In fact, ono of tho suppliers to defendant did not even have a floor to his milk-shed, which was in a very bad state., Defendant should have known better, as lie had carried on business in a registered dairy previous to his coming to Wellington. Tho Magistrate imposed a fine of £5 with costs £1 Is.

POLICE CASES. Sentences of 20 days? imprisonment were imposed on Edward Patrick Tudor on each of two charges of disobeying maintenance orders in respect to his wife and children. The warrant for arrest is to be suspended as long as lis. per. week is paid 'on ono order and 19s. on tho other.. Charged with nsing obscene language, Henry Edwards was fiued £3, with witnesses' expenses 45., 'in default ono month's imprisonment. For drunkenness, Alfred Setlier was fined 405,, in default seven days' imprisonment, Robert Kinnaird was fined 40s. with an option of -fourteen days' imprisonment, and Alfred John Hearle, I'rank Flynn, John Carolan, and Richard Page were each fined 10s., or fortyeight hours' detention. Four first-of-fending inebriates were dealt with. FAILUBE TO -ATTEND DRILL. A number of defaulting Territorials were penalised on charges of failing to attend drill. Harold Ashford and Vernon Claude Gaid were each fined £2, with costs 75., Charles William Cliristensen fined £1 with cost-s'7s., and William Gordon Barry and George Sievers each fined 10s. with costs 7s.

, BY-LAW BREACHES. " Fines of 55., witli costs 75., were imposed on the following for breaches of tho vehicular by-laws:—Samuel Austin, Sydney Johnston and Cyril Preston. Edwin' John Butters was fined 10s., with costs 75,, on a charge of driving an unlightod express after dark. Hugh Montgomeri Speed, George O'Farrell, and Jack Cutts were each convicted and discharged in respect, to breaches of tho vehicular by-laws. _ Penalties were imposed as .mentioned oil tho following for allowing live stock to wander Mrs. •R. A. Bethell, fined £1, with costs 75.; John Hamilton and George Smith, each fined 10s., with costs 75.; John F.yfe and Robert Hare each fined 55., with costs 7s,