MAGISTRATES COURT

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22367, 2 April 1938, Page 21

MAGISTRATES COURT

* FRIDAY (Before Mr E. C. Levvey, S.M.) SHEEP-STEALING CHARGE Sydney Edward Richards (Mr W. R. Lascelles) was charged with having stolen 81 ewe hoggets, valued at £BS, the property of Edward ’Million. It was alleged that the offence had taken place at Ashley on November 25. 1937. Richards was remanded until to-day. TRAFFIC OFFENCES The following penalties were imposed for offences against the traffic regulations, the payment of costs also being ordered except where otherwise Negligent driving: Christopher James Holland, £3, Failing to report an accident: Christopher James Holland, £2; Audrey Basil Vartha, costs only. Driving in a dangerous manner: Walter Thomas Holmes, £2; Leslie Richard Harris, £2. Driving in a careless manner: Charles Leonard Le Roi. costs only; Joseph George Tabah, 20s; George Gourley. dismissed. Failing to give way to traffic on the right: Elsie Irine Billing, costs only; Frank B. Britton, 10s; Ronald Robert Graham, 20s; Thomas Oliver Mac Kay, 20s. Overtaking at intersection: Ralph George Bailey, 10s. No warrant of fitness: Percy Elson. ss; Ronald Robert Graham. ss; Christopher James Holland, costs only; Allan Howard Johnstone, ss; Frances Cecilia McAulay, costs only. Insufficient lights: William James Podley, convicted and discharged; William Harris, 10s; Frank Noel Hawker. 10s; Frederick Leonard Perrers, ss; Ethel May Pye, ss. Carrying more than two people on a motor-cycle: William James Pooley, convicted and discharged. No tail-light: Peter Edward C. Gillett, ss. _. , , No driver’s licence: Leslie Richard Harris, ss. Parking in a prohibited area: James Hector Scales, 20s; Moira Clark Wright. 55.. Parking on the wrong side of the road: James Williamson, costs only. Crossing railway line when not clear: Arthur George Sparks. 20s. Cycling without a light: Arthur John Grim wood. 10s; John Hobson, costs only; Gerald Edward Carr, convicted and discharged; Stanley Kelly, costs only; Jack William Petterson, contacted and discharged. Bicycling on a footpath: Douglas William Mann, ss; Florence Shepherd, costs only. „ , No bell on bicycle: John Hobson, costs only. No rear reflector on bicycle: John Hobson, costs only. CIVIL COURT • (Before Mr F. F. Reid, S.M.) TWO PENALTIES CLAIMED A penalty of 10s was allowed when the Labour Department (Mr S. E. McGregor) claimed £lO from Frederick Thomas Bonham, a butcher, for a breach of,the Canterbury butchers’ award in that, being a party to the award, he employed' William Britten between May 22. 1937. and January 15. 1938, and paid him less than the minimum wages prescribed by the award, and a further 10s penalty was imposed for defendant's failing to pay Britten a holiday allowance. JUDGMENT FOR PLAINTIFF Judgment for the plaintiff for £37 9s 2d was given when William Britten (Mr S. E. McGregor) claimed that amount from Frederick Thomas Bonham for wages and holiday allowance under the Canterbury butchers’ award for the period between May 22. 1937. and January 15. 1938. CLAIM FOR WAGES Judgment for the plaintiff for the full amount was given when Edwin James Pegg (Mr S. E. McGregor) claimed £l2 from Sydney Overend (Mr T. K. Papprill) for wages as the defendant’s hired servant from September 1, 1937, to October 30, 1337, at £1 10s a week. * BREACH OF ACT Information was laid against Sydney Overend by the Labour Department (Mr S. E. McGregor) for a breach of the Shops and Offices Act in that he employed Edwin James Pegg as an office assistant and failed to payhun the minimum wages prescribed. Overend, who pleaded guilty, was convicted and ordered to pay costs. A CORRECTION Owing to a typographical error in “The Press” yesterday it was reported that in the Civil Court, before Mr F. F. Reid, SJt, judgment for plaintiff by default had been given in the case of R. T. Cooper v. A. WThe case quoted should have read; R. T. Cowper v. O. W. Owles.