POLICE COURT.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5276, 18 May 1928, Page 2

POLICE COURT.

TO-DAY’S SIFTING AT PAEROA.'

(Before Mr F. W. Fl.atts, S.M.) FAILING TO DRILL.

A young ma.n named Clement James Murphy, of Hikutaia, was charged with having failed to render personal service under, the Defence Act by not attending drill during the' last six months. A second chargq of fa.iling to notify his change of. address was, also preferred. Defendant pleaded guilty.

The Defence Department’s representative present produced a copy of a letter forwarded; to defendant in December 1927. Notices had been sent to attend drill, but defendant had not attended parades dur, Ing the last six months.

The area, sergt.-major, Waihi, s;ajd that li» December last the dtefendant, who was t'hen resident at Waihi, left, and could! not bo. traced until the police took the matter up. Defendant w.as now in a non-effective, ar,ea, but as kq was inefficient with reference to the number of parades he was required to carry out he wasi still liab*e for, training.

said that as lie had lost a finger he was unablq to use a rifle, and for that reason he had not considered 'it necessary to notify his change of address. He produced a medical certificate from a Paeroa doctor certifying^to his unfitness. The magistrate said that obviously defendant was. unfit, and the charge of failing to render service would be dismissed. On the charge of failing to notify his change of address, he would be convicted and fined 10s, with £1 costs. PROCURING /LIQUOjR. A Native named Kere.moneta, otherwise known as Kelly, a local 'J/ibouTpr, was charged with procuring liquor on .May 5 during the currency of a prohibition order. Mr A- T. Jones appeared for defendant and entered a plea of guilty. A conviction was recorded, a;iid a fine of £2, wifh 15s costs. RIDING WITHOUT A LIGHT. A Maori named Mane Tomo, alias Wiremu Tomo, alias Monday, was digged with riding a bicycle in WhErf Street at night without it being equipped, with a rear, reflector, as required under the Act. A second charge o£ riding without carrying a front light was also preferred. He pleaded; guilty. Se.rgea,nt D. A. Calwell said that perhaps it was not generally known that a red reflector had to be carriedThe magistrate sa.id he hoped l that the necessity of carrying a reflector would be bornq in mind by cyclists. In this instance a conviction only would be entered. For. riding without a light defendant would be convicted and ordered to pay 10s costs. Richard Claude, Te Arolia,, was also convicted and' fined 10s for riding an, unlighted motor-cycle in Normanby Road, Paeroa, on. May 8. TRESPASS ON RACECOURSE'. Being a convicted person, Herman Aids, carpenter, Patetonga., was charged with being illegally on the Paeroa racecourse during the holding of a meeting bn. March 17. In a letter defendant pleaded guilty, but explained that he did not know he had done wrong. He asked that’ the penalty be made as, light as possible, as he had been unemployed for a considerable time and ha.d no money to travel, to Paeroa. Constable Devereaux gave evidence of having spoken to defendant on. the racecourse and advising ;him that he had not right to be Defendant was. convicted and fined £2, with costs amounting to> £2 3s 4d.