MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22319, 5 February 1938, Page 21

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

v ; ♦ : r FRIDAY (Before Mr E. C. Levvey, S.M.) breach of probation order Robert Archibald King (Mr K. G. Archer) pleaded guilty to charges of failing to comply with the terms of his release on probation and of procuring liquor during the currency of i a prohibition order. On the first 1 charge he was convicted and ordered I to come up for sentence if called on in jl2 months, and he was convicted and ( discharged for the breach of the pro(hibition order. The Probation Officer (Mr W. H. I Daroy) said that King appeared in ; Court on August 10 last year on a ; charge of theft. It was then stated j that drink was his trouble. He had | taken out a prohibition order, but I this was honoured in the breach rather than the observance. He was not a criminal type, but his chief trouble was a failing for liquor. | CHARGE ADJOURNED ; A charge of being intoxicated in i charge of a motor-car in Fitzgerald [avenue on February 3 against Hubert iHayston (Mr C. S. Thomas) was adjourned until February 11. A condition was made that Hayston be not ; permitted to drive a motor-car in the (meantime. TRAFFIC CASES. ; Offenders against the traffic regulations were dealt with as follows, payIment of costs being ordered in each lease unless otherwise stated;— Cycling at night without light: [lvan Smith 10s, Reginald William Gwatkin costs only, Reginald Briggs ss, Garrett William Gaynor 10s, Ronald Benfall costs only, Douglas Campbell Brown 10s, Richard Farrington 10s, Harold Gallagher 10a. William Shaw 10s. Careless driving: Vernon Clemens 20s, John Charles Taylor 10s, Robert Todd 20s. Negligent driving: Peter Smith £2, Arthur Nolan Mac Shane 20s. . Failure to give way: Theodore Hugh Noel East 20s (no warrant of fitness, costs only); Robert Louis McCormick 20s, John Elliot Page 10s, Samuel Edward Williams 20s. " Driving motor-car without required lights: Robert John Flavell 10s. Incorrect parking: Patricia McEvedy 20s. Attempting to cross railway line when line not clear; George Thomas Heard 20s. , No warrant of fitness; Raymond Gatehouse ss, Leslie Thomas Hazeldine costs only, George William Papps

• Cycling on footpath: Horace Ewart Crockett ss.

■ No driver's licence: George Henry Doyey 10s. Percy Sivun Fibnklin was fined 20s with costs on a charge of cutting a corner; He was also .fined 5s on a charge of having no driver’s licence and 10s on each of two charges of driving with 'insufficient lights and having no warrant of fitness. William Buckley was fined 10s and ordered to pay costs on a charge of cycling at night without a light. He was ordered to pay costs only on charges of riding a cycle, not equipped with a reflecter or a bell. Gordon Robert Bell was ordered to pay costs only on charges of driving with insufficient lights, having no number plates, and no warrant of ; fitness. A charge of careless driving against Ernest Reynolds Adcock was dismissed. He was fined ss. with costs. ' on a further charge "or'havingno'warrant of fitness. LABOUR CASES (Before Mr F. F. Reid, S.M.I Mr S. E. McGregor, appearing for „the Labour Department, claimed a penalty of £lO for a breach of the New Zealand Licensed Hotel Workers’ Award when proceeding against Clarence Sydney Griffiths, licensee of the Terminus Hotel, Moorhouse avenue. The department alleged that between November 1 and November 30. 1937, Griffiths had employed several workers, and required them to work on the day of their full holiday or half-holiday without having first obItained written permission from the | union secretary; and further, that the I employees were not allowed time off [in the week, or the two following j weeks, A penalty of £2 was also claimed !from each of the employees, B. Lund, R. Austin, D. Sprott, C. Cook, and C. Durie for failing to claim time on. ; Mr F. D. Sargent, appearing for the defendants, said that it was case of a first-class licensee who had 60 guests at his hotel during race week. Eve: one was paid the correct amount oi overtime and was perfectly content, said Mr Sargent. He asked that costs be the only penalty imposed. The Magistrate said that the tim had passed when employers and employees might make their own arrangements. He gave judgment lor the department for £2 and cost against Griffiths, and £1 and cost against each of the other defendants. - PLAINTIFF NON-SUITED \ In its claims against David lasers, \ licensee of the Islington Hotel (Mr W. AP.-Tracy), the department was non'suited; The department alleged , breaches of the New Zealand Hotel ’ Workers’ Award by the Islington Hotel m that James Stewart Morris, a nonunionist, was employed as barma without receiving the award rates o pay, Mr McGregor claimed that if Moms had not looked after the hotel Roger ' would have had to employ a casual barman. He said there were three unemployed union barmen at the time CLAIMS AGAINST COACHBUILDER Two penalties of £lO each w ere claimed from Riseley Motors, Ltd., oy ibe Labour Department. The fi r was claimed for an alleged breach or the Wellington and Canterbury Coach and Motor-body Builders’ Award in «at from July 29 to October 29, 193'. Siseley Motors, Ltd., had employed Horace Barsby as a coachsmith at a , of 2s 3Jd an hour instead of the ■ award rate of 2s 73d an hour. The aacond claim related to an employee, John Mclntyre, who was paid 3s 1140 a® hour instead of the award rate for overtime of 4s 6d an hour between April 6 and November 2, 1937. In farsby’s case the payment of tne Jower rate was not denied, but for Je defence, Mr R. A. Young said that Harsby was not a fully qualified c °achsmith and was regarded as an assistant. . . . ..Judgment was given for plaintiff in 2® first claim for £2 and in the claim for 10 guineas. On the of Mr Young the second fnalty was fixed at £ll to allow for an appeal.