CAMBRIDGE COURT

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21246, 17 October 1940, Page 2

CAMBRIDGE COURT

LIQUOR NEAR DANCES SEVERAL CONVICTIONS (Special to Times.) CAMBRIDGE, Wednesday The monthly sitting of the Magistrate’s Court was held today before Mr W. H. Freeman, S.M., the feature of the charge sheet being several charges against persons having liquor in their possession in the vicinity of dance halls. Oliver Edward Wright, of Karapiro, pleaded guilty of supplying liquor to a Maori, Alfred Wilson, knowing the latter to be prohibited. Defendant was fined £2 10s and costs. Alfred Wilson was convicted and lined £2 10s for a breach of his prohibition order at Cambridge on September 21. Failure To Give Way George Ireland, of Karapiro, was lined £2 and costs for failing to give way when coming out of Dominion Avenue and approaching the Rotorua main highway on September 6. The result was a collision in which William Machin was injured. William Machin, of Putaruru, was convicted and fined 5s and costs for having no warrant of fitness for his vehicle. Liquor Near Dances

Robert Archibald Brougham and Arthur Eric Neame were convicted and fined £3 each and costs for having liquor in their possession in the vicinity of the Leamington Hall on the occasion of a dance on September 7. Ross Keith Beange, Thomas Lloyd Baird and George Harold Warms were convicted of having liquor in their possession in the vicinity of a dance at Karapiro on September 28. The first two were fined £3 each and costs and the last-named £2 and costs. Denis Johnson was convicted and fined £2 and costs for having liquor in his possession in the vicinity of the Town Hall on October 5. He was convicted and fined a further £2 for supplying liquor to a Maori on the same occasion. The Maori was convicted and fined £1 and costs. On similar charges of having liquor near a dance hall R. W. Wihipeihana was fined £1 and costs. A similar charge against a juvenile was adjourned to the Children’s Court. Unregistered Radio Sets A. Broderson was fined 10s and costs for failing to register his radio. The defendant said he had overlooked the matter. H. G. Kelly was similarly charged and fined 10s and costs. For exceeding the speed limit on the Cambridge-Tirau road on August 2, Emmitt Benjamin Lardner, of Onehunga, was fined £2 10s and costs. He was driving a lorry. James Edwin Nickle, of Pukekura, was convicted and fined 10s and costs for not having a drivers’ license.

On his own application a prohibition order was made against William John McKearney.

Navy League hi Schools The decision of the Wellington Education Board not to allow representatives of the Navy League to address school children during school hours was reversed at a meeting of the board yesterday, a condition being there should be no canvassing for subscriptions or membership fees on school premises at any time.