MAGISTRATES COURT

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 62, 7 December 1926, Page 6

MAGISTRATES COURT

.4 POLICE AND BY-LAW CASES Palmerston North, December 6. A sitting of the Magistrate’s Court was held this morning before Mr. J. L. Stout, S.M.. when police and by-law cases were dealt with. A fine of 10s. with costs 75., was imposed on Walter Oliver for cycling on >ic tootpath. James Burr left a motor-car on the wrong side of the street, and in consequence paid 10s. and costs 7s. Charged with carrying a passenger on the rear of a motor-cycle, Sidney Drake was ordered to pay £1 and costs 7s. Walter Mitchell was mulcted in the sum of £1 with costs 7s. for leaving a motor-car standing more than ten feet from the kerb. Tlie following were each fined 10s. and costs 7e. for cycling at night without a light: Hjarne Christensen, Robert Mitchell. R. Remington, C. Gore and Stanley Gallichan. The Inspector of Factories took action against tho Palmerston North Borough Council on two charges of failing to register an apprentice under the electrical workers’ award. It was stated tliat the breach was but a technical one, and a Gne of £l, with costs, was imposed in each case. William Campbell pleaded guilty to a charge of failing to stop at the railway crossing on Cliff Road, Greatford, when '■e lino was not clear. He was ordered to pay £4 and costs £1 Bs. James Maxwell was fined £2, in default U days’ imprisonment, for being found on the licensed premises of the Railway Hotel during the currency o. his prohibition order. On a further count of procuring linuor while pro hibited. he was convicted and discharged. A fine of £5. with costs, was imposed on Arthur Steere, licensee of the Tost Office Hotel, for permitting drunkenness on his premises. “There is too nuu-h of this after hours trading going on if all reports are true.” said the Magistrate in inflicting a fine of ClO with costs on Herbert D. Norris, licensee of the Central nci'-l. for open ing his premises tor the sale of liquor nficr hours. REMANDS GFAKTFD IN THEFT CHARGES. Gordon Scambary (aged 17'. a laboure. of Wellington was charged with •to--ing on or about November IS, af Palmerston North, a suit case and contents of the value ot £l5. the property of fames McLinden. On the- application of Senior Detective Otiirke a remand was L-nnted until Friday Michael Joseph O’Grady (aged 19), was ch-trued that on or about December 1. at Bulls, he did steal £2O the property nf T B Gaisford A remand until Monday was granted, bail being allowed in the sum of £2OO, with two sureties of £lOO.