COURT NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 15 November 1930, Page 5

COURT NEWS.

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% •' C:. \ n»• •- ■• ' • ■ W- 1 •■' V. : . i : 'y- --mH- : K '• -as ff (i?y ,) ij| ; : : ' ‘ : r wjEIiLIiJGTOiir, Novamber 14. jp 1 Henry Laidlow Turnbull,. ; a£ » present h, a resident of, Au(^|^||y^s‘.tcpay Viire to p.rovjiiejre'turnp foftHncbote; (for l&i The' Bu^eewtf jj|s who did not W T as a shrewd •■ business man, who knew what he was i •doing.' '3i fc .' /' J ‘ ■■.*'»■ 35 ICE ‘‘CREAM" 1 TE AROHA, November 14. For selling ice cream containing |f| less than }0 per cent, of butter-fat, &•.••'. John Lancelot Barlow was fined £5. £$ ; '* ; • ‘ jjfc | r ju I'l '.!■ ;ACOHiyAND, Member 13. 1. Three persons, William Alfred Phil- ■ ? lips, aged 46, labourer,, and || Belle Field, (45) Ir . and;, Muriel Hojjnes j 1 , (81V •. jvere- ( cha r gecj' jwitbVijbe'tjieft of jj, three cheques of a total value of £B2l, fe the property of William George Har- p rihgtbn,' Mr . Kblly asked 1 .’for tGbsCan- If II tial'tbafr,). stating' I HaiViilgt v ?an‘ \ bid ?;j!: man, had the eheqties 1 in his "it. sion on Saturday. He met Phillips, t# and after drinking about-town, they sir went to a house where the 1 women || were, and were all drinking there. Later Phillips cashed one cheque In a city hotel, purchasing some liquor. |§ The other cheques had not- been recovered. The-ywmen ,-saidf Hnrringtou'gaye #®4-tbey || hacT'been lost, - || Accused were -remanded > to,.,Novell* M her 20,' ori bail of £2OO for’Phillips, and || •£IOO- : >the % women. <;!;£■

• -m ■: CRUELTY Td A COWi i 1 m- -. 4i| NELSON, November 14. r - For thrashing a cow with a manuka stick, Edmund;; Fp|t Vi :^Mt.neyj; i | ,:.j previously tvas convicted 'for a similar offence, was fined £ls, and wsb warned that a repetition of. the offence would Bend him to gaol. .

GISBORNE, November 14. ag The following prisoners were sen- |j| fenced at the Supreme Court to-day before Mr Justice Blair. ij| Rihara Mauheui, for forging a Post Office Saving Bank withdrawal slip, || three years’, probation. .. .. .. §•* Arthur Earnest Donald, ,on three charges involving the illegal."use of an instrument and of unlawfully supplying pills and medicines to a girl under the age of fifteen, and also of unlawful || carnal knowledge in respect of the same girl, three hard labour., >;| Pam Huaki,' a young Maori, who $ had been nominated for the Ministry, A on a charge of unlawful carnal know- :,j ledge, was given three years’ probntion. The Judge,, commenting, sajd

that, notwithstanding what the Proba-

tion Officer says, he was making an ex-

ception in the case of Huaki, and he hoped the prisoner proved worthy ol