TAUPO S.M. COURT

Taupo Times, Volume I, Issue 39, 8 October 1952, Page 7

TAUPO S.M. COURT

Police Offences Convictions as follows were recorded at the sitting of the S.M. Court in Taupo on Friday and Satuday, September 26 and 27 last. Wallie, Patopa, sly-grog charge (Sept ember 5), was fined £25, costs i 12/-. Edward Jack Mera, disorderly conduct, fined 20/-, costs 10/-. A similar charge against Trevor George Capon was dismissed. Transport Regulations Leon Gerrard Sunnex, July 12, no heavy trafiic licence, fined £7/10/-, costs 10/-. Victor Clarence Adamson, July 12, no driving licence, fined 10/ -, costs 10/-. v Neil McDougol, July 19th, charge of overloading, fme 15/-, cost 10/-. James Samuel Burrows, June 14, operating goods service without cortificate of fitness, fined 20/-, costs 12/-; also June 21, no nuniber plates showing, fined £10, costs 10/-. Kori Rameka, June 14th, exceeding axle weight, fmed 20/-, costs 15/-. Peter Parson, August 2, no heavy trafiic licence, fmed £9, costs 10/-. Francis John Faricy, July 29, end of truck load projecting too far, fined | £5, costs 10/-. I Joseph Thomas Fitzpatrick, August 2, no heavy trafiic licence, fined £9, costs 10/-. James Cameron Anderson,, May 23, driving on wrong side of the road, fined £8, costs 10/-. Keith Garmonsway, July 12th, no driving licence, fined 10/-, costs 15/-. John Takeru Davies, July 16th, (1) no warrant of fitness, fine 5/-, costs 15/-; (2) end of load projecting too far, fme 5/-, costs 15/-; (3) ©perating goods service without authority, fined 5/-, costs 15/-. Victor Stafford Pearce, July 16, (1) operating goods service without authority, fined 10/-, costs 10/-; (2) iio warrant of fitness, fined 10/- costs 10/-. Leonard Hugh Robert, August 7 (1) dangerous loading, fined £5, costs 10/-; (2) no warrant of fitness, fined 10/-, costs 10/-; (3) operating goods service without eertificate of fitness. Wild Life Regulations David Moore, unauthorised fishing from unanchored boat, fined £2/10/-, costs 10/-. Maelve Andrews and Willlam Golpin, taking launch into prohibited area where a person was fishing, each fined 30/-, costs 27/-. Hector William Mear, July 12, shooting native pigeons, fined £10, costs 12/-; similarly charged, same date, Douglas Selwyn was fined £10, costs 12/-. Robert Kupa, charged with taking pigeons, was fined 10/-, costs 9/-. Roland Arthur Richards, July 12, taking pigeons, fined £2/10/-, costs 12/-. David K. Mear, July 12 (pigeons) fined £2/10/-, costs 12/-. Nita Bird, taking pigeons, fined £2/10/-, costs 17/-. Bernard W. Flight, taking in excess of spoonbill and grey duck, fined 30/-, costs 24/-. Herbert John Longstaff, fallng to produce shooting licence when requested to do so by r'anger, convicted and ordered to pay costs. George Hearst, junior, April 12, taking trout other than with fly, fmed £2/10/-, costs 10/-; same, fishing from boat not securely anchored in prohibited area, costs 10/-. Similarly Charged, George Hearst, senior, was similarly fined. Ross Gordon, April 14, fishing from boat not securely anchored, fined £2, costs 10/-.' Robert Marshall, June 15, taking pigeons, fined £8, costs 7/-; Jack Marshall, similarly charged, similarly fined with costs. Frank Manga (Utihu), taking pigeons, fined £8, costs 9/-. M'.chael Pitiroi (pigeons), fined £3, costs £2. Jim Taihau, July 6th, taking kaka and tui, fined £6, costs £2. Forest Laws For lighting fires at Acacia Bay on

April 13^ without a permit, Rauna Kahia, Fdward Cook, John Lesiie Jones and Alfred Cook, were each | fined 20/-, and costs 10/-. I Major Wall, hunting in Kaingaroa Forest without a permit, fined 20/-, costs 12/-. Price Control Regulations Bob Ying was charged with various breaches of the Price Control Regulations, as follows: (1) No price control sheet shown as required by law, to pay costs, 10/-; (2) failing to display placard showing in legible characters that certain fruit was Jamaican oranges and grape fruit, and the price per pound, fined £5, costs 10/-; (3) selling grape fruit at variance with that fixed by price order, fined £2/10/-, costs 10/-, solicitor's fee, £2/2/-; (4) selling Jamacian oranges at price at variance with fixed price order, fined £2/10/-, costs 10/-, solictor's fee £2/2/-. Justices' Court At a sitting earlier in the week of the Justices' Court (Messrs W. H. Kent and A. H. Reid on the bench), Robin Crohrwell Eustege, was convicted on a charge of being a vagabond, and sentenced to three months imprisonment. Warning to Drivers At a sitting of the Justices' Court on Saturday last, Messrs V. T. Fail and E. H. Ward presiding, Mervyn , Neilson, contractor, was convicted of I being in charge of a motor truck while in a state of intoxication. He was fined £25 and his licence cancelled for 12 months. The Bench issued a general warning that imprisonment would follow convictionik on similar charges in the future, unless special circumstances dictated otherwise.