MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22195, 11 September 1937, Page 9

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

FRIDAY (Before Mr E. C. Lewey, S.M.) i UNREGISTERED FIREARM j On a charge of having in his pos- ! session an unregistered firearm, Russell Frederick Organ (Dr. A. L. Haslam) was convicted and discharged. An order was made for the firearm to be confiscated. TRAFFIC OFFENCES The following were prosecuted for breaches of the traffic regulations, Sub-Inspector D. A. Mac Lean appearing for the police. Costs were ordered to be paid in each case where fines were imposed:— Cycling without lights: Kenneth Avant, convicted and discharged; Arthur Kendrick Harker. 10s; Annie Hickland (voluntary appearance), convicted and discharged. Insufficient lights on cars: Herbert Ernest Barker, 20s: Ronald Bell. 20s; Russell Alfred Box, ss; Thomas Patrick Mcßreaty. ss; Lionel Stevens, 10s; Clarence Alfred Thompson, 20s; Clive Albert Voice, ss. Dangerous speed: John Calder, £3. Careless driving: Guy Haskins. 10s; Colin John Higginson, £2; John Pitt Palmer, 10s. Hanging to moving vehicle: Leonard Arthur Hobbs, 10s. Incorrect parking: Llewellyn Ernest Owen, 20s; Eric McDonald Todd, 10s; David Charles Shaw (voluntary appearance), 10s. Failing to give way: Herbert William Speak, costs only. Cutting in: Tesla Leone Uren, £2. Negligent driving: Tesla Leone Uren. £5. CLAIM FOR PENALTY (Before Mr F. F. Reid, S.M.) A penalty of £lO for an alleged breach of the New Zealand licensed hotel employees' agreement was claimed by the Inspector of Awards (Mr H. A. Gatward) from Hugh Steel, licensee of the Star and Garter Hotel (Mr R. A. Young). The informant claimed that Steel employed Caroline Voyce as a cook and paid her the wage of u general under the agreement. The defendant claimed that Voyce was employed as a general. In giving judgment for the informant for £1 and costs, the Magistrate j remarked that a breach of the agreement had occurred from time to time, but it was not a continuing one. He did not think there was any deliberate attempt to evade the terms of the agreement.