DANNEVIRKE COURT.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 14 March 1917, Page 5

DANNEVIRKE COURT.

HEAVY FINES IMPOSED. DANNEVIRKE, this day. Magistrate McCarthy fined Harold Welch, of the Royal Oak Hotel, Web, er, £SO and costs £5 13s 3d, in default, three months’ imprisonment with hard labour, for breaches of the anti-shouting regulations. He held the defendant endeavoured to escape punishment by indiscriminate perjury and subornation of perjury. He bad also been openly flaunting the regulations. In the case against George Henry Redwood, an official of the Woodville Jockey Club, charged with permitting investments to be received on the totalisator after the notified time of starting the races, a conviction was recorded, and a fine of £2O imposed, or two months’ hard labour, th e Magistrate holding that a serious breach of the law had been proved.