POLICE COURT

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10610, 8 June 1920, Page 7

POLICE COURT

YESTERDAY’S MISCELLANEOUS CASES. '

Mr B. Page, S.M-, presided over yesterday’s sitting of the Magistrate’s Court. INBBRIACY.

John McDonald and Richard Jacob Rasmussen wore eacli lined Ids for drunkenness, while AVillinm McElwain, who had three previous convictions, was lined £2, with tho usual alternative. For g similar Jaboz AVooldridga was lined £1 10s, and was, at his own request, .prohibited for twelve months. ILLEGALLY ON PREMISES. A charge of having been found unlawfully on the promises of Dr R. A. Cameron, 148. AVillis street, on Sunday night, was preferred against Denis William Quill, who excused himself by stating that drink was the cause of his lapse. The Magistrate remarked that, his lire viokis record weighed against (he accused, who was convicted and sentenced to two months’ imprisonment, OTHER CASES. For having committed a nuisance in a side street Joseph Craig was Jined'£l. William George Thomas, who had allowed arrears iu respect lu a maintenance order to amount to £3 4s fid, was sentenced, to a month's .imprisonment, tho warrant to Ire suspended as long as (ho arrears were paid off at the rate of 7s 0.1 per week,

Frederick Blacklidgc. whoso arrears amounted to .£2O -Is, wps similarly dealt with, the warrant to. bo suspended as long as 12s Gd is paid off the arrears each week. William James Giilliam was .sentenced to a month's imprisonment upon a charge ~t disobeying a maintenance order, (ho warrant to he suspended so long a., i.ni' arrears, amounting to ,£l7 taa, are .paid olf at tho rate of 15s per week.

An order was made that Roger Robert Middleton should pay 30s weekly towards the Support of his wife.