MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 294, 31 August 1918, Page 3

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

SUPPLYING A YOUTH WITH LIQUOR The proceedings at the Magistrate's Court yesterdnv were presided oyer by Mr. F. V. Fraier, S.M. Thomas Kingston, licensee of the Brunswick Hotel, and Thomas Walsh, a barman at the same hotel, wore charged with supplying Arthur .lamps Scott, a youth under 21, with intoxicating liquor. Walsh was, fined £1, and the licensee was. ordered to nay costs 12s. Harold George Edward Claydon was fined £1, with 12s. costs, for refusing to leave the Carlton Hotel when rerequested to do so. A man named Edward Polling, a barman at tho TVentham Hotel, plead.'d guilty to supplying a soldier with liquor for consumption off the promises, and was fined £2, in default seven days' imprisonment. His Worship said that as the defendant had been quite frank about the matter no order would be made disqualifying tho nan flora ifollowing his occupation. Gavin Millar, who was found tunelessly drunk on the Porirua Road u week ago, was ordered to pay 17s. fid. curative exponses and £1 Is. medical expenses. 4 John Russell was fined 10s., in default forty-oight hours' imprisonment, for insobriety. Blanch Wyatt was fined £5, nith costs £1 135., for assaulting a followwr.rkcr named Mary Ormerod, at the Windsor Hotel. The defendant was stated to have struck complainant in tin; faeo with her Jist, blackened luth lier eyes, and otherwise injured her that medical attention was i-ecss-Si.ry. ltoy Theodore Matson was fined £1, with 7s. costs, for having failed to attend drill. Harold Thwaites, a motor driver, was fined 10s. and costs 7s. for turning a corner on the wrong side of tho read. i Oswald Graham was fined £3, with 225. 6d. costs, for having driven a car over the Davis Street railway crossing at more than a walking pace. Arthur James Brulf, who has several times been prosecuted for hawking without a license, was again convicted for a like offence, and fined £o, and costs. His Worship remarked that if defendant was going to i egard fines in the light of a license, he would have to pay for that license. For having ridden a motor-cycle out of. Bowen. Street into Lambton Quay at more than six miles per hour, Cyril Upliam was fined £1. John Hempsecd M'Lean, a motorist, in answer to. a.'charge'of having turned a corner on the wrong side of the road, said, he did not understand tho by-law, having only come to Wellington recently. He was fined os., with 7s. costs.