MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2953, 16 December 1916, Page 14

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

NUMEROUS BY-LAW CASES 3lr.' L. G. Kcicl, S.H., heard the police ouses brought' to tho Magistrate's Court, .yesterday.. Walter Brooks pleaded guilty to charges ol riding n bicycle on the wrong side of the Courtenay Place plantation, and of failing to comply with the regulations respecting the. registration of motor-cycles. A. line of 55., with costs 145., covered ~both offences. » , Thomas . Hill was nned os., ivith costs 75., becauso the number • oil his motor-cycle was not . easy to .distinguish. Kdward Hartidge was x-onvictcd of failing to stop cycling along Willis Street when a ocnstablo signalled him 1?) do so. hlo was ordered to pay costs 7s.

Herbert Hayward pleaded not guilty to a charge of leaving a motor-car unattended in' Manners Street. The matter was adjourned till Monday for judgment. L. S. Durey was finc-i 10s., with costs 75., for giving an unstamped receipt. Frederick Kemp was fined Sis. for leaving, a meat-van unattended in Adelaide lload.

Bertio Smith was ordered to pay costs respecting a charge of driving a motor-car which was not properly lighted.. $ Albert Claudo Thornton, convicted of leaving a number of bales of paper on the lootway, was ordered to pay costs 7s.

For riding or driving on tho wrong side of the Courtenay j'lace. plantation, Percy Cameron, Oscar Green, Arthur Jl'Clelland, Leonard Simpson, Horaco AV. Allen, Archibald West, and George Waddle were each ordered to pay Vs. costs. As the persons lesponsible for stock found wandering at large, Patrick Cavanagh'was fined 5a., with costs 75., and solicitor's fee 10s. Cd.; W. P. Matthews, 10s., and costs; AY. Martin was ordered to pay .costs "s.; Oswald' Dislcy, costs 75.; Harold Francis Walker, costs 75.; and Thomas Allwright, costs 7s. BREACHES OF AWARD., Before Mr. W. G. Riddell, S.M., S. Scarr was lined 10s. for employing a driver at less than the award rate of £2 12s. per week. , C. Austin, the employee, was. fined Ss. . ' Mr. M. F.. O'Lcary appeared for the defendants, and the defence was that there was a partnership between the two. ; \ Wm. Ileid proceeded against Norman Bennett on a charge of assault. Defendant was convicted and fined £1, m default seven' days' imprisonment. Also, -lleid charged Bennett with Ahfe use of provokifig and insulting language, and Bennett was ordered to en-, tor into sureties of the peace.

Ernest Hunter, an idle, disorderly man, whom tho police satisfied the Court was a companion of thieves, was sentenced to- one month's imprison-, meiit. • '