MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3014, 27 February 1917, Page 9

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

POLICE CASES.. Mr.:L. 6.'Seid, S;M., presidod'over a sitting of the : 'Magistrate's Court yesterday. ... . Eric Blonquist was fined 10a., and Charles Coyle 55., for insobriety. Wβ. Aehworth, who had been found help, lessly drunk, was ordered to pay medical expenses, amounting to lfls. Frederick O'Day, who had numerous convictions against him for drunkenness, was committed to Koto Eon, for 12 months. Wm.. Ciimmings, convicted ..of possessing insufficient lawful means of support, was sentenced to 14 days' imprisonment.. Oliver Chicle, similarly charged, was remanded for'a week for medical observation. ■■'■'■, Thomas' Bristol, a, waterside worker, was charged with the theft of a lady's oostumo from .the steamer Wairatf.. Mr. H. P. O'Loary appeared for the ac-' cused. who was committed for'trial in the Supremo Court ••■•••• i MAINTENANCE CASES. . - Maintenance cases were dealt with as under:—- . . ■. John Millanta was ordered tu before March 20, arrears totalling JX 95., and, in default, to serve a month's imprisonment. : William George Entwistlo ,was ordered to pay M 3s. 4d. by weekly instalments of 2s. 6d. ; '• Henry Herbert Andrews was ordered to pay 10s. per week towards the support of his illegitimate child. He was also ordered .to pay expenses totalling £W 10s. .... ; • .' . Willianr Clisby and Thomas. Weaver respectively admitted arrears totalling' d£2 10s. and .£5, and were each ordered to pay ss. per week or go to gaol for seven days. William Zander was ordered to pay arrears amounting to £&, l>y instalments of <£1 per week. The penalty for default of payment was fixed at 11 days' imprisonment. '■■■.'. J. J. Buckley was ordered to pay 2s. Gd. per week towards the support of each of four children in public institutions. .