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MAGISTRATE’S COURT

SITTING AT GORE. At a sitting of the Gore Magistrate’s Court yesterday Mr H. J. Dixon, S.M., presided. No Driver’s License. James Croad, who claimed to have had experience of driving all makes of cars except one, drove the make he had not driven before when he was not the holder of a motor drivers’ licence and as a consequence was called upon to appear before the Magistrate. At the same time the owner of the car, George Reeves, was charged with employing Croad, not being the holder of a licence, to drive his car. Croad said that on Easter Saturday he with Mr Reeves and some friends decided to go for a drive to Mandeville. Reeve was not feeling well and asked him to drive. He had driven all makes of cars since 1911, but had not driven a particular new model. Since 1911 he had always held a driver’s licence, but had not taken one out this year. He told Reeves that he did not have a licence.

In reply to a question from SeniorSergeant Packer, Croad said that Reeves had not paid him anything for driving the car.

Mr A. H. W. Aitken, who appeared for Reeves, submitted that on the facts outlined there was no case disclosed against his client.

The Magistrate remarked that Reeves sat alongside of Croad and if there had been an accident Reeves would have been liable. • The information against Reeves was dismissed under section 92 of the Justices of the Peace Act and Croad was convicted and ordered to pay costs 10/-. John Alexander Forbes, charged with driving a motor car without being the holder of a motor driver’s licence, was convicted and fined £3 and ordered to pay costs 12/-. False Pretences. A youth named Henry John Dean was charged with forging a cheque for the sum of £6, the charge subsequently being reduced, on the application of SeniorSergeant Packer, to one of false pretences. The accused pleaded guilty and elected to be dealt with summarily.

Senior-Sergeant Packer said that the young lad was a native of Christchurch. His father had died when the lad was quite young. His mother had to go out to work and the remaining children were in an orphanage. The accused had set out to learn the bootmaking trade, but got out of work and could not find other employment. He did what any other lad with any go in him would do and set out on foot to seek work. He walked from Christchurch to Mataura and there got a job on a dairy farm. Unfortunately he came across a cheque book belonging to his employer. He took out one cheque form and made it out for the sum of £6. Fortunately the cheque was noticed not to be in order and no payment was made on it. Under the circumstances he thought that a term of probation would meet the case. Questioned by the Magistrate, Dean said that, when he took the cheque he was badly in need of clothes. Such a thing would not happen again. The Magistrate said the offence was a most serious one and it was only because the charge had been reduced that he could treat the accused so leniently as he intended. Dean was convicted and admitted to probation for a term of two years and was ordered to pay witness’ expenses, 24/-. Maintenance. Proceeded against for a breach of a maintenance order in respect of his illegitimate child, Robert Stewart was sentenced to 21 days’ imprisonment at Auckland, to be released on payment of the amount due, £l7 10/- up to April 29, and solicitor’s fee £1 1/-. Patrick Joseph Martin was proceeded against for arrears of maintenance in respect of his wife and two children. The clerk of the court, in evidence, stated that the arrears in respect of the order for maintenance of Martin’s wife amounted to £l6l 10/- up to May 5. Of that amount he had already been imprisoned in respect of £136 10/-. The arrears in respect of the orders for each of the children amounted to £39 7/6 and he had been imprisoned in respect of £33 for each order. Martin was convicted and sentenced to six weeks’ imprisonment at Invercargill, to be released on the payment of £25, the balance due in regard to the order for the maintenance of his wife. He was also convicted and sentenced to 14 days’ imprisonment to be released on the payment of £6 7/6 and solicitor’s fee £1 1/-, in respect of the arrears due on the first child’s maintenance, the sentences to be concurrent. In regard to the order for the second child's maintenance Martin was also convicted and sentenced to 14 days’ imprisonment at Invercargill, to be released upon payment of the arrears, £6 7/6, the sentences to be concurrent.

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Southland Times, Issue 21088, 21 May 1930, Page 8

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MAGISTRATE’S COURT Southland Times, Issue 21088, 21 May 1930, Page 8

MAGISTRATE’S COURT Southland Times, Issue 21088, 21 May 1930, Page 8

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