MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 60, 4 December 1926, Page 28

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

POLICE AND SUMMONS CASES Mr. E. Page, S.M., presided at Die sitting of the Magistrate’s Court yesterday. Charles Lamb, for failing to obsenre proper precautions when approaching Waikanae level crossing, was fined £3 and costs 28s , Barraclough and Avery, tailors, were fined £l, costs 75., on a charge of failing to keep a proper wages and overtime book. A. Murdoch, for using uncertificated machinery, was fined £lO and costs 7s. The machinery concerned was a lift, which the inspector said Murdoch had been warned on two occasions not to use. Accused had apparently taken no notice. Mrs. Grace Maybury, for failing to close her premises at the proper time on a holiday, was fined £l, costs 7s. J. A. Shears, baker, pleaded not guilty to a charge of failing to have the interior of his bakehouse cleaned with limewash every six months. He was convicted and fined £2. costs 7s.

William John Hay, a labourer, aged 50, a second offender, for drunkenness, was fined 10s., in default 4S hours’ imprisonment. A fifth offender for drunkenness, Joseph Johnston, was fined £l, in default 48 hours’ imprisonment, by Mr. J. A.' McGrath, J.P., at the Mount Cook Police Station this morning.