MAGISTRATES COURT.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20730, 15 December 1932, Page 6

MAGISTRATES COURT.

WEDNESDAY. (Before Mr H. P. Lawry, S.M.) REMANDED. Charles Edwards, JU years of age, a cheesemaker, ivaa charged with sending a fictitious telegram with intent to defraud. He was remanded to December 'JOth, bail being fixed at, iSU, with two sureties of £3O. ATTEMPTED RESCUE OF IMPOUNDED lIORSE. Victor Jlotra, for attempting to rescue a liorso seized for the purpose of being impounded, was fined £1 and costs. HEATHCOTE CASES. For cycling on footpaths, Harold Ward and John Baughan were fined 5s and costs and 10s and costs respectively. For keeping unregistered dogs the following were ordered to pay costs: —David Bayne, Jean Finerty, Gilbert Mechen, Frederick Charles Scyb, Bertie Sutton, and Elizabeth Yelland. On a similar charge Frank Thornc was fined 3s and costs. NEW BRIGHTON CASES. For cutting corners the following were fined:— Harry Branthwaite. £1 and costs; ■Gordon Clark. 10s and costs; David McKinley, 10s and costs; Ivan R. Merrett, 15s and costs. . Watson Dingwall was fined 10s and costs for cutting a corner, and £1 and costs for driving without a license. George Harris was fined £2 and costs for driving an unlicensed motor-car, and £1 and costs for using wrong number-plates. For driving in a dangerous manner Albert Sehrader was fined "Os and costs. On n charge of driving without a license, Vernon Harold Smith was fined £1 and costs. Thomas Stanley, for driving in a dangerous manner, was fined £2 and costs. For driving without a licenso he ivas fined 15s and costs. For failure to dcpot.it buildins plans Walter Butcher was fined £3 and costs. UNEM PLOYM ENT CASES. Ernest Henry Albert Adims and Herbert Anthony were eacfi convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if called upon within twelve months on charges of making false statements under the Unemployment Act, and wore ordered to pay £8 and £3 respectively to the Unemployment Board. Francis William Menzies was fined £1 and costs on a charge of making a false statement. On charges of failing to pay instalments of the unemployment levy the following were dealt with:—William Bell, £2 and costs on one charge, 10s and costs on one, and convicted and discharged on each of five; Robert Hector Butcher, os and costs on one, and convicted and discharged on each of five; Stanley Thomas Frederick Grainger. 5s and costs on one, and convicted and discharged on each of five; Alexander Barton Kennedy, i'l and costs on one, 10s and costs on one, costs only on one, and convicted and discharged on one; Reginald King, £2 and costs on each of two, and convicted and discharged on each of six; Alfred Reginald Nowhtry, £1 and costs no one cliaree; Albert Partridge, 10s and costs on one, and convicted and discharged on one; Maurice John Sims, £2 and costs on one, and convicted and discharged on each of two. Aubrey Joseph Daley ivas fined £2 and costs for failing to register. £t and costs on each of two charges of failure to pay instalments of the levy, and "was convicted and discharged on five similar charges. (Before Mr H. A. Young, S.M.) CLAIM FOR £3OO. Alfred Horold Carter, trading as the Office Equipment Specialist Company, Christcliurth, claimed from the Wellington Cordage Co., Ltd., the sum of £3OO damages. The statement of claim set out that in February, 1932, the plaintiff, and the defendant, through its chairman of directors, J. W. Henderson, agreed that the plaintiff should act as its sole ugeut for the sale of all lines marketed by the defendant, including binder twine, in the Canterbury district, "with the exception of Timaru and Amberley, and that the defendant should appoint the plaintiff as such for the term of a year, and pay him for his services nt the rate of 71 per cent, commission on tlio first £SOO of all business done in any ono year, plus two and a half per cent, on all business done in excess of that amount, such business to include all orders received from the plaintiff's district either through the plaintiff or directly by the defendant. As the season for the sale of binder twine approached, pjaintiff devoted time and expense in this connexion, and to the knowledge of the defendant made tentative arrangements with certain prospective buyers of binder twine to buy their requirements from the defendant. On August 26th tlio defendant company wrote to the plaintiff suspending his right to sell binder twine, and refused to pay him commission on purchases of binder twine made direct from the defendant. The defendant company had appointed A. C. Wornall as its agent. Mr J. D. Godfrey appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr D. R. Hoggard, of Wellington, for the defendant. The Magistrate reserved his decision. KAIAPOI. (Before Mr E. D. Mosley, S.M.) TRAFFIC CASES. Charged with driving a motor-car at a speed, dangerous to the public, W. M. Forman was fined £3 and costs £1 Os 6d. On similar charges, J. E. Jones, J. Philp, A. E. Talbot, and J, Thompson were each fined 00s and costs 15s. On a charge of riding a motor-cycle without a license, J. Philp was fined 10s and costs 10s. CIVIL CASES. Judgment for plaintiff by default was given in the following cases:—Papprill, Salter, and Corcoran v. S. Pearce, £2 12s 6d; Commissioner of Taxes v. J. Stalker, £l3 3a 4d; T. C. Browne v. R. Avers, £8 7s.