MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20919, 28 July 1933, Page 5

MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

THURSDAY. (Before Mr E. D. Moslcy. 5.M..) SUNDAY TRADING William Paul Nolan was fined 10s and costs for illegal Sunday trading. LINE NOT CLEAR. James Alexander Pepper, fur proceeding over the Harewood road railway crossing when the line was not clear, was fined 20s and costs. MILK NOT UP TO STANDARD. Robert Aitken <Mr C. G. Penlington>, on a charge of selling milk not. complying with the standard, was lined £2 and costs. LICENSING BREACHF.S. Walter Wrav Hiddlestone was lined £2 and costs for being found on licensed premises while prohnbted. For procuring liquor while prohibited—his second breach of the order—Herbert Watson was fined X..1 and costs. CHARGES ADJOURNED. Charges of obtaining credit to the amount of .CI Is (id by fraud and of omitting to account for the sum ot £5 10s to the Avon Loan Company, against Julius Barth. an elderly man. were adjourned. HOUSE-BREAKING CHARGES. Charles William Arthur Cairns, a salesman, aged 18, was charged on 22 indictable counts as follows:—Breaking and entering by day the dwelling of Frank Gill. 37 Rhodes street, with intent to commit a crime; breaking and entering the shop of Benjamin Horgan. Barlow's Buildings, with intent to commit a crime; breaking and entering the counting-house of Barlow Brothers, Ltd., with intent to commit a crime; breaking and entering by day the dwelling of Alice Rivers, 85 Mandeville street, and theft; breaking and entering by day the dwelling of Clarence Leslie Rhodes, 81 Totara street, and theft: breaking and entering by day the dwelling of Grace Pearson, 57A Carlton Mill road, and theft; breaking and entering by day the dwelling of Clement Waldron Coles, 15 Beverley street, and theft; breaking and entering by day the dwelling of Allan Leslie Woods, 144 Chapter street, and theft; breaking and entering by day the dwelling of Thomas James Thompson, 14 Kotare street, and theft; attempting to break and enter the shop of Watsons, Ltd., 695 Colombo street, with intent to commit a crime therein; breaking and entering by day the dwelling of Hubert Henderson, 10(3 Papanui road, and theft; breaking and entering by day the dwelling of Ernest Chafley, 35 Carlton Mill road, and theft; breaking and entering by day the dwelling of Elizabeth Benjamin, 10 College avenue, with intent to commit a crime therein: breaking and enetring by day the dwelling of Harry Ranskill Best, 28 Circuit street, and theft; breaking and entering the shop of Arnold Whitworth, Barlow's Buildings, and theft; breaking and entering by day the dwelling of Kenneth Riccarton Mcllroy, 24 Malvern street, and theft; breaking and entering by day the dwelling of Frederick John Needham. 21 Merivale lane, and theft; breaking and entering by day the dwelling of Thomas George, 21 Gloucester street, and theft; breaking and entering by day the dwelling of Vera Isabel McCullough. 41 Matai street, and theft; breaking and entering the dwelling of William Gordon Coull, 184 Fendalton road, and theft; breaking and entering by day the dwelling of Muriel Vivienne Jones, 60 Worcester street, and theft. A large number of witnesses gave evidence of the loss of property or of their residences being broken into. In a number of cases there was no indication of the method used to gain entry to the premises. In one case jewellery to the value of £9l was stolen. Evidence was also given of attempts to break open the safe of Barlow Brothers and to gain entry to the shop of Watsons, Ltd., by means of explosives. Detective J. C. C. Edwards produced statements by the accused in which he admitted the offences. The accused pleaded guilty to all the charges and was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. A summary charge of the theft of a handdrill and pair of bolt cutters, to a total value of £ 1 7s (id, the property of James Percy Drevvitt, was adjourned sine die. Bait was refused. CIVIL CASES. (Before Mr H. A. Young, S.M.) Judgment for the plaintiff by default was given in each of the following cases:—The India Rubber Gutta Peicha and Telegraph Works Company. Ltd., v. R. Parker, £1; Christchurch City Council v. Hannah Mary Ann Blair, £2B 14s lid; same v. Alice Anne Campbell, £2O 12s Id; Milford Bishop Skinner v. W. Lapslie, £3 4s; North Canterbury Hospital Board v. H. W. Jacobs, £5 ss; T. H. Rider v. K. Laing, £4l 19s lOd; Benjamins, Ltd., v. L. W. Stephenson, £4 12s 3d; A. B. Anderson v. H. J. Carter, £2O; Gordon and Gotch, Ltd., v. L. Lynch, costs only; Electric and General Import Company v. Raymond La wry, lis 4d; Robert Francis, Ltd., v. E. G. Thompson, £66; Beath and Company, Ltd., v. J. T. Manson, £1 18s 4d; Mary Ann McGrath v. Mrs Ada Mary Douglas £33 9s sd; A. S. Geddes v. L. A. Thistleton, £lB 13s; Esther Isabella Friedlandcr v. R. Clague, £lO9 12s Bd. Judgment summonses:—A. W. Evans was ordered to pay Ash by, Bergh, and Company, Ltd., £5 18s 7d .forthwith, in default seven days' imprisonment. CLAIM FOR COMMISSION. Henry de Denne, of Hastings, and Annesley de Renzy Harman, of Christchurch, solicitors, and executors of the estate of the late George Edward Way, claimed from the separate estate of Mrs A. M. Spence-Clark, of Clifton, £1 8s lOd, being balance owing as commission for sub-letting a property in Helmore's road. I Judgment was given for the plaintiffs I for the amount claimed and costs.