MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 311, 25 September 1920, Page 9

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

A BABOTONGAN CONVICTED. Mr. r. K. Hunt, 8.M., dealt -with tile cases at the Magistrate's Court yesterday. Job Hikau, a native of Miue Island, and lately a member of the crew of the Brig Aratapu, was convicted of stealing canvas valued at £2, which he sold to a secondhand dealer for 10s. 6d. Chief Detective Ward said that nothing was known of the acoused, who appeared not to be a bad man. He was cmvicted, and ordered to ccme up for sentence when called upon, and to refund 10b. 6d. to the second-hand dealer, Foi" being discovered in the Britannia Hotel at 10.5 p.m. John "Walsh was fined 10s.. and 7s. costs. ' Mary Burgoyne r'eaded guilty to committing a breach of iier prohibition order, and was fined 203.; on a charge of being on licensed premises she was convicted and discharged. For a similar offence Mary Taylor was fined 10s„ and 7s. costs; William Robert Williams, on two ch&rses. waß fined 10s. on each. Cederholm and Co., for failing to register their premises (due to an oversight) were convicted and ordered to pay 7a. cost). Doris Huntingdon,: a small shopkeeper, ■was fined 10s. and costs for failing to close her shop at 1 p.m. on a Saturday. For failing to attend drill H. J. Maney was fined 10s., and 7s. coats. Fred. Anceii. was lined £3 for assaulting an elderly man ■r.amed Thomas Williams, and the Magistrate ordered half the amount of the fine to be given to the latter.