POLICE COURT

Evening Star, Issue 22465, 9 October 1936, Page 11

POLICE COURT

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9. (Before Mr H. W. Bundle, S.M.) MOTORIST REMANDED, Allan Leslie Steven (47) was charged with being intoxicated while in charge of a motor car on the Anderson’s Bay road. On the application of Mr J. B. Thomson, defendant was remanded ■ for a week,, bail being allowed in the defendant’s own recognisance of £25. BREACHES OF AWARD. Reserved’ decision was given in the case in which the Inspector of Awards proceeded against George Alfred Brooke (Mr W. H. Carson) for a breach of the Snop and Offices Act, 1921-22, in that he failed to pay the minimum rate of wages. The defendant was further proceeded against for employing a boy under 16 years of age before 7 a.m. When the case was partly heard last week Mr Carson raised the legal question as to whether defendant was an occupier of a shop or not within the meaning of the Act. The Magistrate held that the business of a milkman with premises came under the heading of a shop occupier. Prosecutions of a similar nature had been before the court previously and convictions entered. Brookes would be convicted. The question of a penalty was adjourned sine die. UNLAWFULLY ON PREMISES. William Whiston admitted being unlawfully on licensed premises, and was fined 10s and costs. UNLICENSED WIRELESS SETS. The following offenders were dealt with for not possessing wireless licenses :—Walter Wiliam Pauley, convicted only; James Dawson, fined £1 and costs; William Miller, fined 12s 6d and costs; Edward Henry Milne, fined 15s and costs; Robert William Reid, fined 15s and costs; Gabried Wood Watson, convicted only. UNLIGHTED BICYCLES. William Deuchrass was fined 5s and costs for riding an unlighted bicycle. For a similar offence Alfred Wilson was fined ss. MOTORISTS’ LAPSES, An unlicensed motor car driver, Allan Shaw, was fined 10s and costs. For not having his motor car sufficiently lighted, Brian Thomas was fined 5s and costs. Fines of £5 and costs were imposed on each of the following motorists for exceeding speeds of 30 miles per hour in city _ streets:—John H. Allan, Philip Barling, jun., Richard A. Legg, William A. Richardson, Charles J. W. Stevens, and Francis Morris Hancock. Arthur Ronald Helm was fined 20s and costs for overloading a motor truck, and 5s and costs for being an unlicensed driver. For operating an unlighted motor vehicle, Henry Thomas Pleace was fined 5s and costs. UNLICENSED MOTOR CYCLIST. Philip G. Hellyer, jun., was convicted only for being an unlicensed motor cycle driver. James Frederick Nesbit was convicted without penalty on a charge that, being a motor cycle rider, he attached himself to a motor car.—The Magistrate remarked that a warning from the traffic inspector should have been sufficient to meet the case. Decision was reserved in the case in which. James Joseph Brogan pleaded not guiltv to failing to notify the change of ownership of a motor truck. Mr J. G. Warrington submitted that the word “ sale ” or “ other disposal ” in the section of the Act could mean only the transfer of the property in the vehicle, and that it was accepted law that property did not pass under a hire purchase agreement until the final payment was made. PRIVATE ASSAULT CHARGE. Campbell Coutts (Mr B. S. Irwin), a resident of Waikouaiti, proceeded on a private complaint against Henry Kirk-

wood on a charge of assault. The defendant did not appear. The complainant, an attendant at the Seacliff Mental Hospital, gave evidence, and said that on the night of the alleged assault he escorted his wife home from a dance at Waikouaiti. Witness was standing near the kerbing talking to her when Kirkwood came acrbfes to him and struck him on the face. This was not the first occasion on which complainant had been attacked by Kirkwood, the previous assault taking place two years ago. Constable Hayward, Waikouaiti, gave evidence of complainant’s injuries, describing Kirkwood when in drink as a “ pugnacious bully.” The defendant was fined £3, and ordered to pay witness’s expenses (£1 Is lOd) and solicitor’s fee (£1 Is). Half the fine was ordered to be paid to the complainant. CHARGE DISMISSED, A charge against William Henry Stewart of procuring liquor while prohibited was dismissed, the Magistrate remarking that the Act was defective in the respect that it did not provide against the consumption of homebrewed liquor.