MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 102, 27 October 1933, Page 3

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Police and summons cases m the Magistrate's Court today were dealt with by Mr E. Page, S.M. Thomas Moran, aged 46, a. fireman, was fined 10s, in default seven days imprisonment, for a second statutory offence ot drunkenness. A similar penalty was imposed upon him for casting offensive mat6For the theft of a wireless sefr valued at £5, the property of Joe Guy, James William Kearney, aged 40, a labourer, was admitted to probation for twelve months. He is to make restitution of the 22s 6d lie obtained for the set, and is to take out a prohibition order against himself. • Charles Berkahn was fined- £2 for setting fire to gorse. . , Fines of £1 each were imposed upon William Henry Bayly and Joseph &. Jennings for selling butter not labelled with the name and description. Valentine Christopher Jones was fined 10s for delivering a firearm to a person without a permit. Albert Phillip Pengelly was fined 30s for operating an unlicensed radio transmitting For drinking liquor in the Mayfair Cabaret at a time when licensed premises were required to.be closed, Willard Martin was fined £1. Constable G. Allen gave evidence that at 12.5 a.m. one night he and a sergeant visited the Mayfair Cabaret and found the defendant, who was one of a party of four, drinking port wine. Richard Copping and Edward George Sayer were each fined £2 for having been found on licensed premises after hours. For failing to close their shops at the required hours, Wong She and Sons were fined £2, and Arthur Brown was fined £1. On two similar charges Mrs. Helena Grounsell was convicted and ordered to pay costs. ■Described by Detective-Sergeant L. Revell as an ex-Navy man, John Godfrey McArthur, aged 38, a seaman, pleaded guilty to four charges of obtaining credit by. fraud and to one charge of obtaining money by false pretences. "Drink has largely been the cause of this- man's trouble," said Mr. J. D. Willis,', for the defence. The defendant was sentenced to four months' imprisonment on the first charge, and on each of the others was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if called upon within twelve months.