COURT NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 2 September 1931, Page 6

COURT NEWS.

TWO YOUTHFUL THIEVES. (By Telegraph—Per Press Association) GISBORNE, September 2. Two youths, Terence Anthony Walters, aged. 21, and Adoipli Conrad Jansson, aged 17, were charged with converting a car and burglary at Tola- j ga Bay. They were remanded at the Police Court this morning, the police stating that goods valued at £3OO had been recovered. DENTIST PROSECUTED. AN UNQUALIFIED ASSISTANT.

DARGAVILLE, September 1. I 1 Prosecutions against Alfred John , 3 Finch, a dentist, and Eric Rudolph j® Jessen, his assistant, were, heard in , 11 the Magistrate’s Court, at Dargaville I £ yesterday. Finch was charged with permitting * Jessen to carry on the practice of <len- n tistry on July 15 and 28 on his behalf. ® Finch was fined £lO, and costs on one charge and was convicted and ordered to pay costs on the other. Jessen was charged that being an k unqualified dentist, lie did practice dentistry. He was fined £5 and costs one one charge and was ordered to c pay costs oil the other. - THEFT OF A HAT. 1 cl • 4TWO WOMEN CONVICTED. J AUCKLAND, September 1. j Two young women who were told by ! Mr F. K. Hunt, S.M., that they appeared to have been leading disreputable lives while -in Auckland, were convicted at the Police Court this morning of the theft of a woman’s hat, , worth £2/9/6, from a Queen Street milliner, and were ordered to come up for sentence when called upon. They were Mavis Baker, 20, waitress, | j and Phyllis McCall urn, 21. a JUDGE VARIES WILL. ' ‘ AUCKLAND, Sept. 1. * A Tauranga resident, Mrs Mary Ellen Freetli, who died recently left £2077 to one of her daughters and £247 to the other. Giving judgment to-day on an originating summons to vary the will, Mr Justice Herdman f said lie was unable to discover why f/ one daughter, with eight children, -j .should be left so much less than, the ( other with four children. He varied the will by giving the plaintiff an additional £6OO. On the question of costs, His Honour said he saw nothing to justify the deceased leaving £IOO to S'.tP.O.A. He therefore reduced the legacy from j. £IOO to £2O, remarking that £BO would q almost cover the costs of the action. <l, } CLERK,, SENTENCED. • li CHRISTCHURCH, August 31. Arthur Roger,son Perry, clerk, aged 31 years, was sentenced to four v months’ imprisonment on changes of theft of £BS from his employers, John Brigbtltng and Co., Ltd. . j ASSAULT. I TIMARU, August 31. t For 'assaulting a'- married white woman who went into his shop to f purchase fruit, Ah Lun, a Chinese aged thirty-seven; was fined £2 a,ml costs by Mr M. M’Lennnn, J.P., in the Timaru Magistrate’s Court today. According to the police, the Chinese inquired why the woman was wearing a street collection badge on her coat, and leaned across the counter and j grabbed at her. j] The accused’s story was that he f bad merely handled the ticket on the woman’s coat. n