PETONE MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 203, 22 May 1919, Page 6

PETONE MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Mr. ~F. V- i'razer, S.M., "presided over the sitting of the Petono- Magistrate's Court yesterday. Patrick M'Gill, brought up on remand to answer a charge ' 1 f tlieit, was still further remanded .until May' 29, bail beiiig alloived as before. Mary Johnson pleaded guilty to a charge of .procuring liquor during the currency of a prohibition order, and was fined il and costs. . . Charles Cate was charged With having committed a breach of the Gaming Act in that ho did publicly a "double chart." The accused pleaded guilty, and stated that lie was unaware that he had committed any .breach of the Gaining Act. His Worship inflicted a fine of .Co with costs. \ B. 11. CluttH'buck failed to appear on a charge of having tailed to attend parades. , \ . Seifreant-Major Boivker gave evidence as til having warned the accused for parade on the date in question. . Clutterbuck had been lived twice previously, and had on both occasions failed to appear. The Magistrate fined ■ the accused with ,7s. costs, in default Iweuty-eiglit days'' military detention. ■ Frederick Wilson, Inspector of lactones, proceeded 'against .T. Symomls and Son for employing a boy named \V llliain Calvert, aged eleven years, -without having h certificate of the boy s fitness as required by section 28 of the Factories Act. J Svnionds and Son were further charged with allowing the hoy to commence woik before 7.45 a.m., which constituted a breach of the Factories Act. Georgo ?.! Calvert, the father of tho boy, was charged with allowing his son to comiiiciicc work before 7.15 an* lho llirce charges were taken together. It was contended for the defence that while the bov received some sligh' remunera- • lion for his services in a. bakehouse, ha went of his own freo will to work early, And that there had been no compulsion 011 the part of the employer. His Wor-, 6hip, in summing up, said that there * ceitainly had been some loose arrangement in connection with the work. There-was'no doubt: that the boy had been doing 'vorfc early in the morning. On the first ohargo the.acossed would be fined XI and costs, and on the second charge lie would merely record a conviction. The father, Calvert, was con j vicicd and discharged. On a charge of having driven his motor-car at a greater speed than that allowed by the regulation, Charles Binwiii was fined ,E1 10s. with costs 17s. Gd. lor allowing stock to wander Fete# Sharp was fined .E5 with costs '.55.; Joseph W. Bradley. 10s., with costs < s.; and Albert C. Wright, 10s„ with costs 17s. Gd. ■ " , „ . John Burn was fined Is. f°'" allowing a drain to become blocked, lie having al* ready juid for (be costs of repairs and cleaiiiiig the drain (19s. od.)

JUVBNTTjK 'COURT. Funr lads, aged about ten year?, w.ere >charged with having on Aprii 215 broken mUi the residence of Norris Dlaxall, and stealing therefrom four packets of jelly, 4lb. of cocoa, lib. of sugar, and aiso cniisiii«r various other damage to llio , extent of M. After hearing evidence, His Worship admitted the eldest- lxiy to probation for' three years, and the othei threofor one year. The-parent* •of the boys were order id to us nice goal the dai»»ge.