MAGISTRATE’S COURT.
NEW PLYMOUTH CASES, YESTERDAY’S SITTING. A sitting of the New Plymouth Magistrate’s Court was held yesterday, Mr. A. M. Mowlem, S.M., presiding. Judgment for plaintiff by default was given in the following undefended civil actions: P. B. Fitzherbert v. Roka Tikipu, £lO 10s (costs £3 Is 6d) ; Cook and Lister v. G. C. Sinclair £2 2s (£1 5s 6d). In the case of the Whiteley Trustees v. Thomas Duffin, a claim for possession and £4O Os 4d, judgment was given for plaintiff on proof, for an order that possession of the premises be given to plaintiff on or before January 15. LICENSING CASE. His Worship gave reserved judgment in the cases in which A. E. Horne, licensee of the White Hart Hotel, was charged with keeping open after hours, allowing liquor to be consumed, and selling liquor; and Charles Thomas Mills and Alexander Reggie Peddie, with being unlawfully on the premises. The magistrate came to the conclusion that the inference on which the case for the prosecution rested was not strong enough to cause him to disregard the sworn evidence given for the defence, and the charges against him were therefore dismissed. Different consideration? prevailed in the other cases. He considered it perfectly clear that the men went to the hotel to get a drink, for nothing if possible, and they were successful. The question of cashing a cheque was made the excuse to get them on licensed premises. The mere fact that after entering they became the guests of the licensee for the time being did not make their original entry of the premises lawful. Each defendant was convicted and fined £1 and costs 7s. PRISONERS REMANDED. On the application of the police, Ernest Edward Clarke, who appeared on remand on a charge of committing an unnatural offence, was further remanded until December 23. Henry Mackay was remanded to appear at Stratford on December 16 on a charge of carnally knowing a girl under 16 years on October 26 and 27, and December 1 and 3 at Stratford. CHARGES DISMISSED. The police proceeded against Francis Alexander Reade on charges of (1) using insulting language to the guard on a train, and (2) refusing to deliver on demand by the guard an expired sectional annual ticket. After hearing the evidence of the guard and a passenger the magistrate dismissed both charges. POSSESSION OF RIFLE. Patrick Feilding Hawkins was fined £2 and costs (9s) for being unlawfull/ possessed of a rifle belonging to the New Zealand Government Defence Forces. The defendant said he had received the rifle from his cousin and did not know there was anything wrong. BY-LAW OFFENCES. For failing to clear noxious weeds Bernard C. Hoffmann was fined £1 and costs (7s). Fines were inflicted as follows for breaches of the borough by-laws, the informant being Inspector E. C. King: Clifford Gilbert, riding cycle on footpath, 10s and costs (7s); John Smith, exceeding speed limit on motor cycle, £2 and costs (7s); Harry Meyenberg, same offence, fined similarly.
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Taranaki Daily News, 16 December 1921, Page 7
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502MAGISTRATE’S COURT. Taranaki Daily News, 16 December 1921, Page 7
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