MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21807, 12 June 1936, Page 16

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

THURSDAY (Before Mr E. C. Levvey, S.M.) REMANDED ON BAIL

Charged with stealing £5 from William Gordon, Christopher Henry Walsh was remanded, on the application of Dr. A. L. Haslam, until June 18. Bail in his own recognisance of £2O was allowed, a condition being that he report daily to the police. Dr. Haslam said the taking of £2 18s 6d was admitted, but it was claimed that this amount was owing as wages. The Labour Department was taking the case up. THEFT OF BICYCLE

For the theft of a bicycle Percy William Mayes was fined £3, and was ordered to pay £2. the value of the cycle, in default 30 days’ imprisonment Sub-Inspector D. A. Mac Lean said Mayes borrowed the cycle from Eric Raymond Dry, and two months later he spld it for 15s. It had not been recovered. Mayes had previously been in court being sentenced to 14 days’ Imprisonment. "Just a bit of stupidness,” said Mayes, when the magistrate asked him why he had sold the cycle. Mayes came from England 12 years ago. said the probati.cji officer, Mr W. H. Darby. He had no fixed abode, and had been the subject of police enquiries for the non-payment of unemployment levies. He was now working at Riccarton as a gardener, and his employers were satisfied with his work. ON LICENSED PREMISES On a voluntary appearance, Terence Kellaway was fined 20s and was ordered to pay costs for being on the licensed premises of the United Service Hotel after hours. Sub-Inspector Mac Lean said Kellaway had called at the hotel after having been to a dance. Rudolph Greatbatch was fined 20s. and was ordered to nay costs for being on the licensed premises of Storey’s Hotel after hours. Sergeant S. King said he found Greatbatch on the premises, and he said he had gone there to get liquor, but he had got none. TOBACCO FOR BOY Pleading guilty to supplying a boy under the age of 15 years with tobacco, Geoffrey Parlane was convicted and was ordered to pay costs. j Parlane was an employee in a general store, said Sub-Inspector MacLean. Two boys, each aged about 13 years, asked for tobacco, and he sold It to them. He had previously sold groceries and tobacco to young boys, and he took no notice of this purchase. The boys had been responsible for an incipient fire, and that was why the case was brought. CIVIL COURT • Before Mr F. F. Reid. S.M.) JUDGMENTS BY DEFAULT Judgment for plaintiff by default was tiven in each of the following cases;— impson and Williams, Ltd. v. M. Darby. £.l 6s 4d; D. Jarden v. William Percy Jarden, £10; Canterbury Tyre Agency Company, Ltd. v. L. Martin, £5 18s sd; Wooff and Salvesen, Ltd., v. A. R. Perry, £ll 14s 9d; A. and T. Burt. Ltd., v. J. D. Galbraith, trading as J. D. Galbraith and Co., £l6 0s 9d; Florence M. Crawford v. Douglas Munro, £ls 13s 6d; R. Hartley v. Robert Foote, £10; Slater, Sargent, and Ccnnal v. Percival Andrew Mills, £3O Is; Archer and Barrer v. Harry Kendrew, £ 2 2s; Ellis and Company v. W. Vf. McClelland, £9 9s; Mason, Struthers and Company, Ltd., v. T. Tait, £5 Us 9d; Rowe and Company. Ltd., v. W. Jordan, £1 5s sd; Trade Auxiliary* Company, of New Zealand, v. Auckland Terrazzo Company, £4 3s 6d; same v. H. G. Beechy, £3 6s lid; same V. J. A. Braggins, £1 12s 3d; same v. K, Coll, £3 4s 6d; same v. B. Fisher, £4 Os 6d; same v. R. Friend. £1 8s 9d; same v. W. Ramsay, trading as Central Inquiry Agency, £ll 14s 6d; same V. S. G. Wyatt, £8 9s 3d; H. W. Rothwell v. Walter Levy. £ls 15s. LABOUR CASES On three charges under the Factories Act —working an employee more than four hours and a quarter without a break, exceeding the stipulated working hours without first obtaining a warrant, and failing to pay overtime, Theresa Smith (Mr A. C. Brassington) was convicted and ordered to pay costs. For breaches of the Tea Rooms and Restaurant Employees’ Award, she was ordered to pay penalties totalling £1 2s 6d. The breaches were; Failing to exhibit a copy of the award, failing to keep a wages and time-book, failing to allow an employee a week’s holiday, and failing to oay award rates. Mr R. T. Bailey, who appeared for the Labour Department, said that the defendant was a young woman who had bought a restaurant business and had difficulty with it from the start. The business included a bakehouse, recognised by the act as a factory, and a restaurant. She apparently did not understand the overlapping of the award and the act. Two employees involved had been friends of the defendant and offered to accept wages below the figures fixed by the award. This was carried on for some time until a rift occurred and the Labour Department heard of the case. The defendant was now in ill-health and had not been brought into court. He understood that a civil action might be brought by two of the girls. PENALTIES IMPOSED Thomas Joseph Sleeman was ordered to pay two penalties, each of £l, for failing to pay award rates for Saturday afternoon work, and so committing a breach of the Carpenters’ and Joiners’ award. William Collett, a painter, for working in excess of the stipulated hours, and failing to claim overtime, thereby committing a breach of the Painters' and Decorators’ award, was ordered to pay a penalty of ss.