MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 August 1943, Page 4

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

SITTING IN MASTERTON TODAY TRAFFIC & OTHER CASES. NUMBER OF OFFENDERS FINED The fortnightly sitting of the Masterton Magistrate's Court was held today. Mr H. P. Lawry, S.M., was on the Bench. Hector Percival Wcnham. was fined £2 and 10s costs on a charge of having procured liquor during the currency of a prohibition order. Stanley Edward Gibbs was fined £1 and 10s costs for having cast offensive matter in Queen Street. Frank Glen Simmonds was fined 5s and 10s costs and Thomas Percival Whittaker (Mr R. McKenzie) was fined 10s and 10s costs on a charge of having failed to notify to the Registrar the change of ownership of a motor car. Ross McKenzie Jackson was fined £1 10s and 10s costs on a charge of having failed to give way to a vehicle on his right. Keith Ross was charged with having failed to report an accident to the police, operating a motor cycle without a warrant of fitness and without a headlamp. He was fined £2 and 12s costs on the first charge, and 10s and 10s costs and £2 and 10s costs respectively on the other two charges. Gordon M. Cannon was fined 10s and ,12s costs for having driven a truck without having a licence. The Borough Traffic Inspector. Mr J. McGregor, prosecuted in the following traffic cases: —

William R. McDougall, Mrs Eliza Jepson and John William McKay were fined 15s and 12s costs, 5s and 10s costs and £1 and 12s costs respectively for having driven motor cars without having a current driver’s licence. The State Forest Service (Mr R. R. Burridge) proceeded against Albert Edward Tuxford (Mr S. R. Gawith) for having failed to notify the nearest Forest Officer of an outbreak of fire which threatened a State forest.

Mr Lawry said he would adjourn the case sine die to enable it to be referred back to the Crown Law Department. He added that not one farmer in a dozen knew the regulations regarding the lighting of fires near State forests. The Transport Department proceeded against Bruce Douglas Cameron for having permitted a motor cycle to be operated without the cycle being registered. The information was dismissed.

CHILDREN’S COURT

THEFT OF PATRIOTIC PARCELS

A number of cases relating to juvenile crime were heard by Mr H. P. Lawry, S.M., at a sitting of the Children’s Court in Masterton this morning. Five children were before the Court as a sequel to the theft of soldiers’ parcels from the Masterton Patriotic Committee’s building in Queen Street, and the breaking and entering into a blacksmith's shop. Mr Lawry admonished the children and pointed out to the parents how essental it was that'the children should be made to find the cost of restitution for the damage they had done. Boys, said Mr Lawry, thought they were clever when they broke insulators, but it was another matter when they had to pay for them. The children were committed to the supervision of the Child Welfare Department for two years, with curfew conditions for one year. On a charge of breaking and entering, a youth was committed to the supervision of the Child Welfare Department’for twelve months.