Milton Sydney Love

Milton Sydney Love (1852–1924) was an Australian Stipendiary Magistrate in New South Wales and the founding Warden of the Southern Mining District of NSW.

Love was the son of the politician William Love and Ellinor Robinson, both immigrants from Ireland, and brother of merchant James Robinson Love.

He was appointed to be the Police Magistrate, Clerk of Petty Sessions and Registrar of the District Court at Cooma by the Governor of New South Wales on 1 June 1887, when he also assumed the duties of Warden at Cooma. Love was also appointed to be a Warden of the Southern Mining District by the Governor of New South Wales on 18 June 1887 (1). He was later appointed to the position of Stipendary Magistrate, a position which he held for 18 1/2 years.

Love received acclaim in 1924 after imposing a fine, for which its smallness, was probably a world record. A young girl came before the Newtown Magistrates Court charged with a breach of railway regulations. Despite suggesting the case should be withdrawn, which was deemed not possible, Mr Love then imposed a fine of "one penny, in default one minute imprisonment, and I will allow the accused twelve months in which to pay".(2)

References

(1) NSW Government Gazette No.412, 22 July 1887, p. 4774. (2) RECORD FINE, Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 134, 3 December 1924, Page 9

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Name	Love, Milton Sydney
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Date of birth	1852
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Date of death	1924
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