MAGISTRATES COURT

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22304, 19 January 1938, Page 14

MAGISTRATES COURT

—— . TUESDAY (.Before Mr E. C. Levvey, S.M.) DISORDERLY BEHAVIOUR Two men, Alfred Stanley Hart and Bamuel Richard Pentecost, were convicted' on charges of behaving in a disorderly manner while drunk. Each was fined 20s and ordered to pay costs and expenses, in default seven days’ Imprisonment. REMANDED Eric Allred Wahrlich pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing a wristlet watch valued at £4, the property of Ray James Ewart. He was remanded to appear on. January 20. Bail was allowed. FALSE PRETENCES CHARGE Adam Gordon, charged with obtaining by false; pretences the sum of £ 7 8s 3d from John Thomas Nicol Grant, was remanded to January 20. Bail was granted at £SO With one security of £SO, with a condition that accused report daily. TRAFFIC OFFENCES Traffic offenders were fined and ordered to pay. costs as follows (where not otherwise Stated! •. Parking over time limit: Peter H. T. Alpers, I Os; Peter Paul J. Amodeo, 10s; Hilda Jarden, 20s; Ronald Bradley, 20s; Cyril Willis Brewer, 10s; Howard Nelson Burry, 20s; Raymond H. Carlton, 10s; John Gbddard Collins, 20s; Arthur A. Cooper, 20s; James Jack. 20s: George A. Lye, 10s: ’Oliver G. Moody, 20s; Ernest C. Rawhsley, 10s; John Kenneth Welsford, costs only. Overtaking on intersection: Harry Banks, 10s. Speeding: Reginald J. Mitchell, 10s; Louis Basil Lawson, 30s. No driver’s licence; Ray Collins. 10s; Cyril Albert George Simmonds, ss. 5s on another charge of having no warrant of fitness. Incorrect parking: Hans Alexander Martin, 20s: William Bennett, 10s; Leonard Bolton-Moss, costs only; Mary E. Douglas, 10s; Walter A. Drake, 10s; Layman Engelander, 20s; Thomas Hill. 20s; James S. Patrick, 10s; Arthur Peverell, convicted and discharged. No warrant of fitness: Sidney Symonds, ss. Failing to give way: Halford Parker, 20s; Dixie, Penrose, ss. Proceeding against inspector’s signal: Qomuel G. Unwin, 20s. Operating unlicensed motor-lorry; William Warner. £1 10s. KEPT A GAMING HOUSE Theodore Francis Kearns, whose premises at 277 (Colombo street, Sydenham, were visited by two detectives at 11.30 o’clock yesterday morning, pleaded guilty to a charge of keeping a common gaming bouse.

Kearns was convicted and fined £2O and ordered to pay costs in default three months’ imprisonment. Detective J. McClung, who Visited Kearns’s premises with Detective C. P. Burns, said that a quantity of betting material had been found in Kearns’s pocket. There were a book, some betting slips, and other paraphernalia. There was no suggestion, however, that accused was carrying on in a big way. He was a first offender, Ernest Drewery was fined £2O and ordered to pay costs for keeping a common gaming house. qiVIL CASES (Before Mr F. F. Reid, S.M.) ORDER FOR POSSESSION An order for possession was made in favour of Lilian Ada Roche against Mary Griffith. Griffith was the occupier of a house (which had been sold) owned by Roche, and had refused to move into another house, regarding it as unsuitable. JUDGMENT SUMMONS C. J. Allen was ordered to pay W. P. Ingham, Ltd.', the sum of £8 Is 6d forthwith in default eight days’ imprisonment, warrant to be suspended as long as defendant pays 10s a week. UNDEFENDED CASES Judgment for plaintiff by default was given in each . of the following undefended cases:—N. W. Spinks v. A. J. Nixon. 13s 8d: H. L. Newton v. Economic Electric Shop, £4 10s 6d; L. B. Scott, Ltd. v. R. Chappell, £4 : 10s 3d: H. Rothwell v. Atkinson. £2; Francis Holmes, Ltd. v. H, Oakes, £6 2s 2d; J. J- Niven and Company, Ltd. v. M. Knox, £1 7s 7d; W. W. Keighley and Company, Ltd. v. Lester Robih- , son, £1 4s 8d; Christchurch Press Company. Ltd. v. A. McEwah, £6 16s 6d; D. C. McDonald v. M. Isaacs, £5 2s 6d; A. E. Bell and Son. v. C. L. Sutton, £l2 2s sd; New Zealand Farmers’ 'Co-operative Association of Canterbury, Ltd. v. G. O’Malley, £5 18s lOd; Thomas Grace v. W. Ramsay, £1; J. Ballantyne and Company, Ltd. v. A. Bryce, £6 8s Id; same v. E. A. Heath, £2 17s 4d; same v. L. S. Harris, £ll 11s; Benjamins, Ltd. v. N.Z. Display Service. Ltd., £ls 12s; C. F. Cotter and Company v. Mrs R. M. Barlow, £1; T K. McEwan v. Sydney Earnshaw. £1 3s 6d: J. McGrath v. W. H. Corlett. £ls 2s lid; H. M. Cameron v. E. D. Hill, £4; Seymour and Turnbull, Ltd. v. L. J. Tfcomas. £1 15s; George Anderson and Son v. Robert James Heese, jun., £2 12s; L. G. Amos v. Mrs Clara McQueen. £4 19s lid; G. S. Morse v. M. Stanley, £1 6s 6d; National Mortgage and Agency Company of New Zealand. Ltd. y. E. Rickerby, £l4 14s 4d; Thelma M. Cusack •v. F. Seymour, £5.