MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21281, 28 September 1934, Page 9

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

THURSDAY . (Before Mr E. D. Mosley, S.MJ REMANDED George Macdonald Hamilton, salesman, 32, of 110 Hereford street (Mr D. W. Russell), was charged with failing to comply with the terms of a maintenance order, being £3O in arrears, and with obtaining £27 10s from A. R. James with intent to defraud by falsely representing that he was a salesman employed by the Commonwealth Underwriters, Ltd:? at Auckland, which firm was acting as broker for Timberlands Woodpulp, Ltd. Accused was remanded until October 4. Bail was allowed in £IOO with a surety of £IOO, a condition being that Hamilton report daily to the police. Harold Frank Needham. 88 Bordesley street (Mr A. B. Hobbs), was charged with stealing a horse cover, valued at 30s, the property of Arthur Edward Bussell. He was remanded until October 4, bail being allowed at £SO, with a surety of £SO. ASSAULT Lawrence Barrett was charged with assaulting William Samuel Kingston on August 16. He pleaded guilty. Senior-Sergeant J. Fox said the accused was late for work one morning and was spoken to by the foreman, Mr Kingston. His employer decided to dismiss him. When Barrett heard of the decision he blamed the foreman and assaulted him. He had not been before the court before.

Barrett was convicted and fined £2, in default seven days' imprisonment. He was allowed 14 days in which to pay.

Herbert Washer, of Cashel street, was charged with assaulting Mrs A M. Baker, a widow. He pleaded not guilty. Senior-Sergeant Fox said the accused was blind. He should not be allowed on the streets, but the problem was to know how to keep him oIT. Mrs Baker said Washer was about to walk into some bicycles, and .she placed her hand on him to lead him off. He swung his hand at her. striking her across the chest, and began cursing and swearing. Washer was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if ca.icd upon within six months.

Gordon Beresford Heaki tMr li. Twyneham) was proceeded against by Basil Howard Heald (Mr M. J. Burns) for assault. The plaintiff also applied for sureties that the peace would be kept. The defendant was fined £2, one half of which was to be paid to the complainant (his brother), and was also ordered (o pay costs. Mr Twyneham said that it was a most trivial offence, but the magistrate said that the assault was not trivial. He was not satisfied, however, that it was likely to be repeated. The application for sureties was not sustained. CHARGES AGMNST YOUTHS Stanley Leslie .Jnmieson William Mathews pleaded guilty to charges of .stealing a motor-cycle saddle valued at, 10s. the property of Lancelot Robinson, and of converting to his own use a motor-cycle valued at £lO, also the property of Robinson. Another youth, whose name was ordered to be suppressed (Mr J. K. Moloneyi. also pleaded guilty to the charge of conversion. Chief-Detective W. H. Dunlop said that, the bicycle had disappeared from the Canterbury Rowing Club's pavilion. The owner had seen the two accused on the following day in Madras street with the saddle which they were about to sell. Mathews was admitted to probation for 12 months, and the charge against the other youth was adjourned fur a week. DRUNKENNESS Francis McClusky, a labourer, of no fixed abode, pleaded guilty to a second offence of drunkenness within six months. He was fined 20s and ordered to pay costs, in default 48 hours' imprisonment. CHIMNEYS ON FIRE Mary Currie was fined 5s and ordered to pay costs for allowing a chimney at her premises in Armagh street to catch fire. Frederick Arthur Krahagen pleaded guilty fo a similar charge in respect to his premises at 428 Manchester street, and was fined 5s and ordered to pay costs. Thomas Robert Stringer, of Tancred street, was also fined 5s and ordered to pay costs. Constable M. J. Fie well yn read a statement in which it was said that defendant had put a soot destroyer on the fire with the result that the chimney had caught fire. "Evidently effective." said the magistralc - THEFT 0F crCYCLES Kenneth John Coad, a relief worker, of Simeon street, pleaded guilty to charges of stealing a bicycle in 1929. valued at £lO, the property of L. J. Rogatski, and of stealing a bicycle, valued at £1 10s, and a generator and lamp, valued at 10.-;. in 1931, the property of persons unknown. Coad told the magistrate that he had been converted and wanted to get the offences off his mind. He was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. Bail was allowed at £SO in his own recognisance, and he was ordered to report daily to the police.

CIVIL COURT (Before Mr H. A. Young, S.M.)

JUDGMENTS BY DEFAULT

Judgment for plaintiff by default was entered in each of the following ca^es: —John Chambers and Son, Ltd., v L. W. Scott, £lO 16s Id; Simpson and Williams, Ltd., v. Thomas Connolly. £1 4s 3xl; Gough, Gough, and Hamer, Ltd., v. J. W. Wyatt, £lB 3s; same v. T. P. Quick, £35 0s 2d; Emma piatts Austin v. Selwyn George Maynard, £1 15s 6d; Albert George Holder v. C. S. Penlington, 12s 6d; E. Douglas Pullon v. F. J. Collins, £22 lis; New Zealand Express Company Ltd., v. <L Tapp, 14s Id; L. B. Scott, Ltd., v. M. Snook. £8 Is 6d; W. C. Edward and F. Dry v. A. L. Sutton, 9s fid; Hurst and Drake, Ltd., v. S. W.. Brown, £1; same v. 11. E. Savage, £4 13s. SOLICITORS NON-SUITED Cavell and Milliketi, solicitors, of Christcluirch, claimed £7 13s from J. James, farmer, of Templelon. In their statement of claim they submitted that the sum was owing for services rendered and on account of moneys paid by them as solicitors for defendant. James appeared in person. The magistrate non-suited plaintiffs, with costs for defendant.

AWARD BREACHES

The Inspector of Awards claimed £lO from George Kempton, of Kempton and Hill, butchers, of 56 Clissold street, Merivale, for a breach of the Canterbury Butchers' Award, by employing a youth and failing to pay him the rate of wages set out in the award. Kempton was ordered to pay £l, with costs. On a similar information, Trevor Hill, of tho same firm, was ordered to pay Js, with costs. JUDGMENT FOR DEFENDANTS Reserved judgment was given for defendants in a case in which Inga Edna Jones (Mr J. A. Johnston) proceeded against Arthur Thomson and John Duncan Litten (Mr W. R. Lascelles) and George Collingwood Dingle 'Mr F. W. Johnston), to recover £73 9s 2d as damages arising from a collision between a motor-car and a horse. Costs were allowed to the defendants. PENALTY OF £23 I'or making false entries in the and time-book and lor lailure