MAGISTRATES COURT

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22430, 17 June 1938, Page 6

MAGISTRATES COURT

THURSDAY (Before Mr E. C. Levvey, S.M.) . REMANDED Charles Henry Fletcher (Mr J. K. Moloney) was remanded until June 20 on a charge of stealing £1 in money, the property of William Walter Wilson. FARE NOT PAID Elizabeth Oakley, who was charged with having travelled by train from Christchurch to Ashburton on January 8 without first having paid the fare, was convicted and discharged. THEFT OF OVERCOAT George Hill pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing an overcoat, a woman’s skirt, and a bed quilt, valued at £l, the property of some person or persons unknown. He was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if called on. within six months. THREE CHARGES Arthur 'J’homas Meikle (Mr J. K. Moloney), a motor mechanic, was charged with the theft of £3 10s in money, the property of Mervyn Wreford Forscutt. He was also charged with obtaining goods to the value of £7 3s lOd, from A. J. Pickering and Son by false pretence, and attempting to obtain from Beath and Company, Ltd., goods to the value of £8 3s lOd, by false pretence. He pleaded guilty to all three charges. On the first charge, Meikle was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if called on within two years, with a condition that he repays £lO 13s lOd. On the other charges he was convicted and discharged. MESSAGE BOY’S THEFTS John Edward Jarman (Dr. A. L. Haslam), a message boy, aged nearly 18 years, pleaded guilty to six charges of theft, involving an overcoat valued at £4 ss, the property of Jack Dalton Talbot; a raincoat valued at 10s, the property of some person unknown; roller skates, valued at £1 10s, the property of the De Luxe Skating Rink, Ltd.; a man’s bicycle, valued at £lO 17s lOd, the property of Robert Charles Proctor; a bicycle valued at £l2 ss, the property of David Barlass; and a tin of biscuits, valued at 12s 6d, the property of John Henry Duffield. Detective-Sergeant T. E. Holmes said that the boy had got out of control.

Dr. Haslam said that Jarman had been in bad company, but those associations had now been terminated. “If there is any more of this nonsense in any shape or form you’ll be given a long term at the Borstal,” said the Magistrate to the accused. Jarman was placed on probation for three years, with a condition that when he obtains employment he makes restitution of the amounts stolen. LICENSEE FINED William (Mr P. P. J. Amodeo), licensee of the White Swan Hotel, was fined £6 and ordered to pay costs for selling liquor after hours. CHARGE DISMISSED Eglon Sercombe (Mr H. P. Smith) WES charged with having unlawfully assaulted George Graham. Sub-Inspector W. E. Packer said that trouble had occurred ever a religious service in the Armagh Street Hall. Sercombe had brushed past a doorkeeper in endeavouring to enter a room, and the latter had fallen and struck his head. The Magistrate said the charge would be dismissed under the Offenders Probation Act, but if there was any more trouble he might have to bind the defendant over or take some other action. A further charge, of unlawfully trespassing on .the premises of the Armagh Street Hall, was withdrawn. VALUELESS CHEQUE Clifton James Ward (Mr J. A. Kennedy) pleaded not guilty to a charge of obtaining from R. Hannah and Company, Ltd., a pair of shoes valued at £1 19s 6d and £8 3s 4d in money by faisely representing that a cheque drawn on the Bank of New South Wales at Ashburton for £lO 3s 4d in favour of Mrs H. Simpson, and signed H, J. Meek, was a good and valid order for that amount. Ward was convicted and fined £lO and ordered to repay the amount of the cheque, in default three months’ imprisonment. CIVIL COURT (Before Mr F. F. Reid, S,M.> GRAZING ON LAND Rupert Reginald Thorpe (Mr P. H. T. Alpers) claimed from Maurice Ryan (Mr A- J. Malley) the sum of £lB ss, which he alleged was the cost of damages suffered by him through defendant wrongfully pasturing draught horses on a block of land leased by plaintiff from the State Advances Corporation, and in respect of which the defendant had a contract for drainage and reading. The Magistrate found for the plaintiff for £5. JUDGMENT FOR PLAINTIFF Judgment for plaintiff by default was given in each of the following cases:—Christchurch Battery Company, Ltd., v. R. Brice, costs only; Beath and Company, Ltd., v. M. Jenkins, £3 8s; V. W. Spinks v. M. Meikle, £1 17s; Trade Auxiliary Comany of New Zealand, Ltd., v. A. P. Paulin, £5 12s lid; New Zealand Farmers’ Co-operative Association of Canterbury, Ltd., v. Harold Ivan Pragnell and Jessie Rice Pragnell, 8s 6d; George MacPherson v. Mrs Simpson, £2 8$ 3d; Andersons, Ltd., v. E. Rickaby, £7 10s; Mating ana Company, Ltd., v. Carey Bros., £6 18s 9d; same y, B. Gleeson, £2 ss; same v. C. J. Noble, 11s 6d; same v. Adams Hardware, Ltd., £1 I7s Id; G. L. McCallum v. D. H. Hopkirk, £5 14s; Tait, Carlisle. Simpson, Ltd., v. E. Robertson, 13s 6d; Robert Francis, Ltd., v. C. J. Reynolds, 17s 6d; Rantins, Ltd., v. C. H. Baughan, £1 7s 3d; Fred. Sladen and Sons, Ltd., v. H. C. Ewing, £4l 9s 2d.