MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21992, 16 January 1937, Page 8

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

FRIDAY (Before Mr E. C. Lovvey, S.M.) DRUNKENNESS Leslie Louis Stalker was fined 20s, in default 48 hours' imprisonment, for drunkenness. He was ordered to pay taxi hire, Is 6d.

TRAFFIC BREACHES

For breaches of traffic regulations, the following were fined and ordered to pay costs, ordered to pay costs only, or convicted and discharged:— Cycling at night without a light: Pert Neil Adams, 10s; Leonard Aldridge 10s; Leonard Austin, convicted and discharged; Joan Barnes, convicted and discharged; Walter George Blood ]os- David Crouch, 10s; Wilfred Holmes 10s; Douglas Allan Hooper, 10s- John Chester Paisley, 10s; Vernon George Philpott, 10s; 1-lughie Roberts, costs only; Lloyd Alexander Borthwick. 10s: James Chamberlain, 10s; Frank Churton, costs only; Leopold De Roo costs only; William Double, 10s; Eliza Maud Eade. 10s; Margaret. Edwards, 10s; George Raymond Fisher, 10s- Ivy. Hales, 10s; Herbert Sydney Harper, 10s; Stanley Hobbs, 10s; Doris Johns, 'convicted and discharged: Arthur Kearns, 10s; Claude Matthews, 10s; Louis Henry Morel, 10s; Lawne McCartney. 10s; Terence McDonald, 'os: Kenneth Perry, 10s; Walter Prebble 10s; Joyce Reid, costs only; Richard Sexton, 10s; Elizabeth Southon, 10s; David Edward Sutherland, 10s; Lawrence Bruce Thompson, 10s; Anthony Wall, convicted and discharged; Frederick Wilson, costs only; Christina Young, convicted and discharged; William Dudley Dennis Young, costs only. Crossing railway line when not clear: Samuel Beale 10s; William Henry Dodd, 20s. . Driving motor-car without headlights: James Robert Daniel Johns, £2. Driving motor-cycle with insufficient headlights: Alan Robert Osment, 20s. Noisy exhaust: Eric William Tavcndalc, £2. Driving without license: Edward Wildey, 10s. ' Cycling without reflector: I rank Churton, convicted and discharged. Cycling without white mudguard, convicted and discharged, and cycling without alarm bell, convicted and discharged; Lawrie McCartney was also convicted and discharged for having no alarm bell. Cycling on footpath: James Cairns, 10s; Frank Meason, 10s; Gordon Wilson Moore, costs only; Dorothy Sykes, costs ° nl y- , . - • Turning to the right against signal: William Jack Bowes, £2; Frederick John Moore, £2. Driving motor-cycle without light: James Bremner, 10s. Failing to give way on the right: Stanley George Baggott, £2; Edward George Giles, £2; Russell Sumner, £2. Obstructing police: George Raymond Fisher, 10s. Driving at a speed dangerous to the public: Morris Howe, £2; Kenneth Seddon Hyland, 20s. Negligent driving: Reginald Arundel, £2; Roger J. M. Parish, £2; John Smith, £2. Failing to give warning to turn: Frederick John Nunan, 20s.

LABOUR CASES (Before Mr F. F. Reid, S.M.) FAILURE TO KEEP HOLIDAY BOOK

The Labour Department (Mr F. Wilson) proceeded against John Michaer Cotley, licensee of the King George Hotel (Mr A. J. Malley) for failing to keep an approved holiday book accessible for workers to sign. Mr Wilson said that the book was not accessible for a fortnight, and it had been stated that it was in the hands of the accountant. Mr Malley said that the accountant had the bj6|bk and was exceedingly busy at the-time. A penalty of 10s was allowed. DECISION RESERVED

The Labour Department (Mr H. A. Gatward) proceeded against M. Blackburn *Mr F. W. Johnston), a dairyman, Waimairi road, for allegedly employing J. H. Dunlop as a milk roundsman for more than eight hours in a day, and for mdre than 44 hours in a week, and Ronald Forscutt for more than eight hours in a day, in contravention of the Shops and Offices Act Amendment. Mr Gatward contended that Dunlop could be classed as a shop assistant, in that he delivered milk and collected money from customers. "Where is the shop?" asked the magistrate.

Mr Johnston said that the department evidently was referring to the clause in the act referring to hawkers. To Mr Gatward, who said that milk could be sold from the delivery cart, which was the shop, the magistrate said that this was different from selling from door to door, and that there was no evidence that milk was sold from the cart. '

The magistrate said mat he was satisfied on Forscutt's statement in evidence that ho did not work more than eight hours in a day, and that the complaint involving him should be dismissed. On that involving Dunlop he would reserve.his decision.