MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22533, 15 October 1938, Page 7

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

FRIDAY CBefore Mr E. C. Lewey, S.M.) REMANDED Edward Arthur Halligan. charged with breaking and entering the dwelling of Leonard Hampton Duffield, was remanded to appear on October 20. BREACH OF PROHIBITION ORDER John Albert Edgar, facing one charge of drunkenness and two of breaking a prohibition order, was fined 10s in default 24 hours' .imprisonment on the single charge, and 20s on each of the other two,, in default seven, days' imprisonment. TRAFFIC CASES Offenders against the traffic regulations were fined and ordered to pay costs or ordered to pay costs, only as follows: , -. No cycle light—Eric Cooper, 10s (inefficient brake 10s); William Dudley Denis. Young. 10s: John McDonald. costs only; James Harry Mills, costs only; Cyril Murch, 10s; Thomas Watson Nichol, costs only (cycling on footpath, convicted and discharged). Horse-waggon cutting corner— George Herbert Turner, 10s. No warrant of fitness—Leslie Beaumont Miller. 10s. Failing to report an accident—Huia Munro Cork, £5, licence to be endorsed and suspended for three months (driving without due care, £2). Driving in a dangerous manner— Lloyd Sidney Johns, £5. Careless driving—Gordon Alexander Lithgow, £2. . . Failing to give way—Margaret Hilda Rudkin, charge dismissed. (Before Mr F F. Reid, S.M.) BREACHES OF AWARD ALLEGED The ..Labour Department claimed £lO from James McKenzie, the licensee of Tattersall's Hotel, for employing Colin Moffatt as a barman and William Wallace as a hotel worker and failing to pay them the correct rate of wages as required by the Licensed Hotel Workers' Award. The Labour Department was awarded £1 on each of the two claims. Separate claims of £lO were made by the department against Moffatt and Wallace for accepting a lower wage than that prescribed by the award. The department was awarded 15s on each claim.