THE COURTS.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19544, 14 February 1929, Page 6

THE COURTS.

MAGISTERIAL. , WEDNESDAY. ■Beiora Mr E. P. S.M.i ( » TRAFFIC OFFENCES. > Fcr overloading motcr-cyclaa, lit follow tag finad, with «oMi:— «a* Saldhrii »•, PeUr Fiaher Ma, Richard Hobba 10t 3 Jack Shanlu 10a, Roye* Soanea 90a, Willi aa a Waeon 30*. For fatlicg to produce a dnrar** Uoacso j r the following war* fined: —TMbai Fas 30 and casta, Leonard Booth 30a and «MU Hector Barnard 3C* end coat*. Frad Twam e low 20a and caaU. „ Albert Tom Hoare wa* ftnad %?£ oaat for crel:Bf on tha footpath. HEATHCUTE CASES. For driving el danrerwoa rpmdt, tha Id [i lowin* were Scad, with eoata:—C. M. Do4§ £ 00a, NaT-ilia Farr 90s, G«arg* T. Heath W* S Thomas Jama*. Hoater 98». Zruit Rndfcr r 30a, John Bcrrcll tt, Huia Clarence TV"O >. "ia.sna £Z. maixtexakce cases. e Charles Edward Bound was oraeatd to pa B £* Sa a khlc toward maintenance for hi wife and children, and at pa ration, mjuttaa l * a nee, and orders war# mad n against. him. >1 David Taylor, who appeared _ca a cote plaint of faiitne to maintain hia wife, «i remanded to »;-pear on Feiraary 25th.. Bu waa allowed in self £25 and one «nfetj < fas. DRUKKKXXESS. i Christina l**-ao=, a*ad n, «*» fiaao A j in dafatdl 48 Lours" ssapriaocmec'. fo j dronkennaaa. I VOLO'TABT .VPPF.ARAKCE Athol Sherton Brown nt fined SS wilho® coats for driv:t 0 - hia car at a dangers s|seedi„ h " CIVIL COURT. I- 'Before Mr H. A- Yonns, E-*- 1 e DECISION RESERVED. S Jf. S. Anderaon, carrying on bnainaaa a the Buildera* Timber Company, tun bar toe: * ciian'.a, claimed from C. E. HtnafcaU tl earn o: xTi Ska Sd, th* balaacw of tha tsmu e alleged to be da« b? defesdast to plaint) II for Umber daliTcrvd. Mr H S J. Goodruan appealed lor plaii tiff aad Mr K. M. Graaaon tor dalcadan For the- defence. Mr Graaaon aaid that h 3 client had ordered good* and had paid J d G. McDonald for the foods reo»i*acL : I the money <lid c«) rea:h plainltS thai wi '• not defendant'* tm esaa he pa d traa the man aect to deferiact to ootjai I- the rroner. Deciaioa iraa itarrree. f g Is tha c*aa in tha Mafiactu'i Coert c ,# Tueaday, mh. CaeaU and Miliiltea v. Anbi Owen, in which jodemant waa |tns * pliimlifc. tha it firli-f sMi.Omm Qanam m liftii Sakati

I KAIAPOL (Bofota Mr E. D. Mmlay, B.MJ J ad«JD*ei far ftmnlit bjr detselt waa fine itt ihm lallcpvx&f E. GilMt t. J. B. Bodmes, ebui J* 7a M; F. Tata v. S. G. BeOseay. cl*ia» £l> Ifii; C. BHifgs t W. IWlain, jma., data 4t Is M. THe . seagull* along the Devonjwrt waterfront at Auckland make ooaatdar- - able oh of th* concrete promenade * when opening tbeir iMUtah. Vba lb* » ltd* gom down, the big black-backed 1 gulls pick tip pipia and cockle* am the , madflat ana, lying **hore drop tbem , from * height of loft or 20ft. So «x- --->, pert are thqr that they rarely have to - drop a cbell a aaoand tiai to break it. Amongst the titter of aptiatared ahai! the tittle grey mackerel gnlla look for aeraps that haw* been disregarded by their larger oovama. They are often " "on the apot" when a abtllfKh dropa * from above, in wfcieh caw U» original I finder doaa not gel. a taate of it. City dweller* who bear a band one* a week or ofteoer ahould be interacted to baar of tba eettiera in una of the r way-beck rallnra in the Mvrchiaon dia- * trict, deembed in the Nelson 'Kail" aa ; having recently beard a band for tba 6m tune for over 09 yean, ftw Mwrcfeiaon Band bad bona invited to apand ■ a day in one of thaaa remote region*, ] thoee who gathered on « the occasion to baar the mane was tba old settler referred to. He became in tensely wetted when tb* band oom- ■■ menoed ita performance the band*T men were greatly amosad with hia aobaequent action*, and before Warinjt for home gare him hearty rbeer*. Tb* * last occasion on which be heard a band waa on a maa-o'-war ia England, wrer 60 year* ago.