MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22590, 21 December 1938, Page 7

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

TUESDAY ("Before Mr E. C. Levvey, S.M., and Mr F. F. Reid, S.M.) CONVERSION OF CAR "This class of oftence is on the increase and the Court must take steps to stop it," said the Magistrate, when Augustus Frederick Goddard, a labourer, aged 18, and Leslie Desmond Eden, a mechanic, aged 20, appeared for sentence on a charge of having converted to their own use a motorcar valued at £240, the property of , William Andrew Erasmuson. Mr W. F. Tracy appeared for Goddard. The Magistrate said that the accused had no sooner been released from the Borstal Institution than they started again to convert cars. "Just to show that crime does not pay, each will be sentenced to one month's imprisonment with hard labour," said the Magistrate. FALSE REPRESENTATION Charles Hamilton Rohmer, a labourer, aged 50, pleaded guilty to a charge of being a rogue and a vagabond in that he imposed on Rose Kcay, falsely representing that he had authority to collect money for the Cashmere Sanatorium. Rohmer was sentenced to six months' imprisonment with hard labour. Sub-Inspector W. E. Packer said that accused bought some small charms and sold them from door to door, allegedly for Christmas cheer for inmates of the sanatorium. NAMES SUPPRESSED A young man, aged 21, whose name was ordered to be suppressed, pleaded guilty to the theft of three tents and two flys, valued at £4 10s, and of some copper wire, valued at 8s 9d. Detective-Ser-geant F. Sinclair said that the accused saw the property when out camping and returned on subsequent occasions and took it. The accused, who was represented by Mr T. D. Harman, was fined £5, in default 30 days' imprisonment, on the first charge, and was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if called on within six months on the second charge. He was also ordered to make restitution of the value of the wire. A fine of £2, in default 14 days' Imprisonment, was imposed on a youth, who pleaded guilty to the theft of a bicycle lamp, valued at Is lid. His name was ordered to be suppressed. TRAFFIC CASES For breaches of the traffic regulations the following penalties were imposed, defendants also being ordered to pay costs, except where otherwise stated:—

City Council Exceeding 30 miles an hour: Simon Tossman, £2; lan Gilbert Ward, £2. Parking over time limit: Laurence T. Carlyle, 10s; John G. Power, 20s. Angle parking: Moira Sybil Fountain, 10s. No drivers' lice ice: Harold Edward Malloch, costs only. Failing to give way to traffic on the right: Frederick Carter, £2; James W. Cooper, dismissed on payment of costs.

No heavy traffic licence: Mansell A. Parsons, ordered to pay fee £5 2s and costs. No warrant of fitness: William A. Bradley, 10s; Harold Edward Malloch, costs only; Walter Mountfort, ss; Simon Tossman, costs only.

Aided and abetted in offence of no warrant of fitness: Albert Parsons, 20s.

Transport Department

Driving in a manner which might have been dangerous; John William Thomas, £5; Ernest Sydney English, £2.

Cycling on footpath: Selwyn Ronald Campbell, 10s. No cycle light: Lewis Johnston, 10s. Speeding: Valentine Beaumont, £2; Isaac Furley Croft, £3. Driving without due care and attention: George Ferguson, £2. Lorry exceeding 25 miles an hour: Albert James Chapman, costs only. No driving licence: Philip Gordon Brazier, 20s; Leonard Brown, ss. No warrant of fitness: William Gordon Chappell, ss; Gordon Westlake Butters, costs only; Ernest Armour Hardaker, 10s (no warning device, 10s); George Ferguson, 10s. Waimairi County Council

Speeding: Stanley lan Cameron, £4; Edgar F. Stead, £3.

CIVIL COURT (Before Mr F. F. Reid, S.M.) ORDERS FOR POSSESSION J. Davie was granted an order for possession against H. B. KisselL the warrant to be suspended so long as current rent and 5s a week off arrears

are paid. Plaintiff was also given judgment for £3 ss.

Judgment for £7 12s 6d and an order for possession were awarded to W. Fifield against N. Hill.

An order for possession was granted to the Public Trustee, as the executor of the will of Frederick William Devereux, against Arthur George Henry Sussex. The issue of the warrant was ordered to be suspended, so long as defendant pays current rent and 5s weekly off arrears. Judgment was also given for £9 8s 6d. JUDGMENTS BY DEFAULT

Judgment by default, with costs, was given in each of the following civil cases:—

Lan R. Little, Ltd., v. A. Thompson, £4 Is 2d; Sunderland Brothers, Ltd., v. F. E. Wilson, £7 8s Id; Arthur O. Wellwood v. Star-Times, Ltd. (Motueka), £39 7s 6d; Drayton, Jones, Ltd., v. G. G. Walker, £7 lis 2d; Andrews and Beaven, Ltd., v. E. W. Storer, £l4 19s 6d; Charles S. Thomas v. L. M. Sampson, £3 13s; same v. G. E. Chaston and A. M. Chaston, £6 6s; New Zealand Farmers' Co-operative Association, Ltd., v. G. Goodwin, £4 Os lOd; Roy Twyneham v. A. B. Mcintosh, £3 13s 6d; T. Hurley v. G. Watts, £1 12s sd; A. E. Wilson v. Robert Angus Brown, £39. JUDGMENT SUMMONS

On a judgment summons, A. Kay was ordered to pay Clementina Horten Adie £l9 7s forthwith, in default 20 days' imprisonment, the warrant to be suspended so long as 10s a week is paid.