TRESPASS.Robert Elliott (17) and Robert Jobes (19) were fined 5/- each and 3d damage for trespassing over a meadow at Pontop Pike.
DAMAGE TO GRASS.Joseph Suddick (25) and Thomas Lister (43) were charged with doing wilful damage to grass. P.C. Burgess stating that he saw Suddick cutting the grass with a scythe at the Grove Farm, the property of the Consett Urban District Council.Suddick was fine 10/- and 1/3 damages, and Lister, who did not appear, was fined 15/- for similar damages.HIGHWAY ACTMatthew Baker (18), Thomas Foy (20), Harvey Pollard (18), and Henry Steele (18) were fined 5/- each for playing football on the highway at Tantobie.Leslie Baker (17), Henry Hardy (18) , William Humble (18), Alex. Campbell (18), and Robert Wilkinson (18) were charged with obstructing the footpath at Burnopfield.Hardy, who was the only one that appeared, was fined 5/-, and the others 7/6.MISCELLANEOUSPatrick Grimes (32), Dipton, pleaded not guilty to a charge of having no licence for his dog, and was fined 7/6.James Kay (26) for riding a cycle on the footpath near Mountsett, was fined 5/-; Robert Locker (36), Dunston, for riding a bicycle on the footpath at Hare Law, was fined 5/-.