FINE OF £10

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 51, Issue 129, 13 March 1931, Page 6

FINE OF £lO

• intoxicated in car. MOTORIST BEFORE COURT. DELIOENSED FOR TWO YEARS. A number of criminal cases came before Mr H. P. Lawry, S.M., in the Ashburton Magistrate’s Court this morning. > Jame Matthew Nolan was charged with having been found in charge of a car when he was in n state of intoxication, and with having no driyer’s license. * Air R. Kennedy appeared for defendant and entered a. plea of guilty to both-'charges. Senior-Sergeant Martin stated that Nolan was particularly the worse for quoi*. A collision took place in East Street, the other car being badly damaged Nolan was addicted to drink. A{l* Kennedy said that the owner of the car had asked accused to. take charge of it.. Accused had been confused by the lights in the street. He was a cripple. Recused was fined £lO and 10s costs and was prohibited from obtaining a license for two years, on the first charge, and £1 and 10s costs on the second. He was allowed a month an which to find the larger sum. the other to he paid forthwith. Negligent Driving.

Bert Hooper was charged with haying negligently driven a motor-car in East Street. Mi' C. G. deC. Dritry appeared for defendant and entered a plea of guilty. Senior-Sergeant H. Atari in said that defendant had swerved into another car.', There was a suspicion that defendant had had liquor. Mr Drury said tha)fc defendant’s rear: tyre went down suddenly and swerved the car to the right, resulting in -a collision with a parked car. Defendant was fined 30s and 12s costs. ’•-A ■ . Car Wrongly Parked. Refess Joseph Fleet was charged with hsiying parked a car other than ne#. the left edge of a road. Defendant was fined 10s - and 12s costs. Dangerous Driving. Etio Parkes was charged with having driven a motor car at a speed dangerous to the public. Defendant did not appear. The poevidence (showed that defendant drdye a car in East Street at 40 miles an hour. v Defendant was fined £2 and 10s costs. £ Cruelty to an Animal. A charge of having cruelly ill-treat-ed a horsij was preferred against- Leslie Adams. . Accused pleaded guilty and elected to be dealt with summarily. Senior-Sergeant Martin said the horse had been worked with a sore shoulder. The sore was three inches long and two inches wide, and had no protection whatever. Accused said the shoulder had been all right when lie commenced ploughing in the morning. Accused was fined £1 and 12s costs. , Failed to Report Accident. Jane Cairns was charged with having no driver’,s license and with having failed to report an accident. Air R. Kennedy appeared for defendant and entered a plea of guilty. Senior-Sergeant Martin said that an accident had occurred and had not been reported. The first the police knew about it was a paragraph in the newspapers. ? Defendant was fined 10s and 12s costs on the first charge, and £2 and 12s costs on the, second charge. Arising out of the previous case Randolph Rule Bryant was charged with hating failed to give way to traffic on the right, and with having no driver’s license. Defendant did not appear. He was fined £2 and 10s Costs on the first charge, and 10s and 10s costs on the second charge.

No Light on Bicycle. Arthur Giles was charged with having cycled at night without having a lighted lamp:. He vtas lined 10s and 10s costs. Civil Business. Judgment for plaintiff, by default was given in each of the following cases:— National Mortgage and Agency Co., Ltd., v. W. G. Patterson 8s 4d,, with 10s costs.; E. M. Stills v. William Shaw, £29, with £2 Os 6d costs; J. R. Dixon v. H. White,-£2l 5s 5d ,with £4 Is 6d costs; Tucker’s 'Ltd., v. G. Spicer, £8 5s 6d, with £1 11s 6d costs; W. J. B. McDowell v. Don Bell £0 Gs Gd, with £1 12s Gd costs. The following judgment summons cases were dealt with: — H. Grubb was ordered to pay Maling and Co., Ltd., £l9 lGs Bd, with £1 Is costs, forthwith, in default 21 days in' gaol. W. Forsyth was ordered to pay the Ashburton Mail and Guardian Co., Ltd. £4 14s 9d, forthwith, in default five days in gaol. C‘. Patching was ordered to pay A. L. Jones £5 2s Gd forthwith, in default five day's in gaol. H. White was ordered to pay Kerr Bros, £7 10s 8d and 15s Gd costs, forthwith, in default seven days in iraol. In a defended action G. H. Clements, of/ Mayfield, proceeded against Clements Brothers, to recover £22 12s 4d, balance of account for goods supplied to two casual workers employed by defendants. Plaintiff claimed that the men s account had been guaranteed by defendants, who denied responsibility for the account. Judgment was given for plaintiff for the amount claimed, with £6 12s. costst-. Reserved Decision Given. In the case, in which Murdoch Bruce, of Ashburton, proceeded against Daniel Donnehy, of Okarito, and W illiam Wood and 0., Ltd., of Christchurch, to recover £SO, balance of account for goods supplied, the Magistrate gave his‘reserved decision. The case was heard last Court day, and to-day the Magistrate said that he iwas satisfied that Donnehy was the ■toper defendant, and jugdment voula against him for £4O 3s. question of costs was held in