MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 7, 6 December 1926, Page 8

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

MISCELLANEOUS BUSINESS. BREACHES OF LICENSING ACT. Mr J. L. Stout, S.M., presided over the regular sitting of-the Magistrate’s Court this morning. Charged that, on July' '22, 1925, he did procure liquor during the currency of a prohibition, order issued against him, and that, being a prohibited person, he was found on licensed premises, Janies Maxwell was discharged on the first count and fined £2, in default 14 days’ imprisonment on tlio second. Charged with having permitted drunkenness on 4he premises, Arthur Steer, licensee of the Post Office Hotel, pleaded guilty and was fined £5, with costs 9s. FAILURE TO KEEP RECORD. A charge that, being licensed under the Second-hand Dealers’ Act, he did fail to keep a proper record of the sale, purchaso and excnange of second-hand goods, was preferred against Joseph Boucher, cycle dealer. A fine of £5 with costs was imposed. BY-LAW BREACHES. Charged with having ridden a bicycle on the footway, Walter Oliver was mulcted in the sum of 103, with costs 7s. No light on a bicycle after dark cost Bjarne Christensen 10s. with costs 7s. BOROUGH INFORMATIONS. On the information of the borough traffic department, Sydney Drake, charged with having carried a passenger on the rear of his motor cycle, was mulcted in the sum of £l, with costs 7s. * Walter Mitchell, on a charge of having left a motor car more than ten feetpfrom the kerb in the Square, was fined £l, with costs 7s. No lights on bicycles cost each of the following 10s, with costs 7s: Robert Mitchell, Ronald Remington Sefton Gore and Stanley Galliclxan. For having left a motor car facing the wrong way, James Burr was fined 10s, with costs 7s. BREACH OF RAILWAYS ACT. Charged that, on October 1 at Greatford, lie did fail to stop when approaching the railway line, William Campbell, of Marton, newspaper contractor, pleaded guilty by letter. For the Railway Department, Mr Cooke stated that defendant had narrowly escaped being hit by the southbound Limited express. ‘‘These people have to be fined for their own protection,” stated the magistrate, in imposing a penalty of £4, with costs £1 Bs.