MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23056, 26 June 1940, Page 14

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

♦ TUESDAY (Before Mr E. C. Levvey, S.M.) j| THEFT OF £l3 f Garfield Frederick John Smith, a'f soldier, was sentenced to four month?,' ’ imprisonment for the theft of £l3 fronj’i Clarence Reginald Burk. Detective-Sergeant- J. McClung said? - the complainant .was on his way to* : the railway station when he met theA accused, who told him that the trains, 1 to Burnham had gone, and offered to pay his board for the night. They ; both went to the People’s Palace. The . accused got up in the night and stole £l3 from the complainant’s waistcoat* pocket. He went to Auckland and was’ ■ not arrested till some time later. The length of Smith’s absence from,the army made him a deserter. He- : had been before the Court in civil life.. He was aged 19, and wished to get j out of the army. \ ASSAULT Frank Bignall, a soldier, aged 2V was convicted and. discharged on a’ charge of assaulting Amos Edward Hodson. Senior-Sergeant J. Bickerdike said - ] that the accused was walking along' ' Colombo street with two women when 1- , he met the complainant. Bignall said - that the complainant used insulting lan- - guage. A scuffle took place, and the : two were separated by military i authorities. Later they met in Wor- > cester street and fought again. Hod- I son had to be sent to hospital. Police , investigations indicated that the matter 1 was a “50-50 go.” i Mr-W. R. Lascelles, for Bignall, said that Hodson had used very offensive language. Bignall had offered to settle the matter at the gymnasium at Burn. < ham, but Hodson became aggressive. * Bignall had never been in trouble in civil life or in camp. INTOXICATED MOTORIST f Lawrence Bernard Manion (Mr R. ] A. Young) was fined £2O, in default I 20 days’ imprisonment, and forbidden ’ to hold a licence for 18 months far'l being intoxicated in charge of nt motor-car. He was stated to have col-;i-lided with another car on the main’: 1 .- south road and subsequently certified- !- unfit, ’to drive. Mr Young said that Manion. a far-j-t----mer, had had six drinks. He haH never been in a Court before. ' \ TWO CHARGES r Katherine Mary Bennett (Mr K. 3, 1 McMenamin) was convicted and dis-',i charged for drunkenness and ordered to pay costs for being on licensed ' premises when prohibited. , || TRAFFIC CASES Persons charged with offences! against the traffic rules were dealt wittf| as follows (fines being accompanied 6by orders to pay costs):—Speeding;'*! Augustus Frederick Goddard, £2{,= James Pearson, £2; Mavis Clair Moortai, £2; Walter Medley Aulsebrook, 20sg| Donald James Gracie, 20s. Exceeding;! 40 miles an hour with pillion ridenfl Sidney Noel Dallard, 20s. Defective;.! brake: Joseph Alfred Hobson, £lf| (overtaking stationary tram, £3). i Breach of goods service licence: WU-vl liam Arthur Habgood, £5. No licence:. Roy Francis ' Fuller, •5s warrant of fitness, 55).; Careless driv*J ing: Stanley James Patterson, 20$]' William G. Campbell, dismissed. ’■£ Parking over time | Percival Barnett, 20s; Ailsa J. 'Gromp- i ton, 20s; Robert T. Daley, 10s; Alfred! _ Dewhurst, 20s; Ralph Carson Dunn. I 10s; Frank Hester Hawker, 20s; John ; Harold Moore, 20s; John Orr Me- i Gillivray, 10s; Frank Turnbull, 20s. 1 Parked without lights—Percy Proctor Frew, 20s; James Jenkins, 20s. Obstructing fire plug—Mrs Valerie Gould, 20s. Failing to give way to the right I —Clarence Hadley, 20s; Motor-cycle I on footpath—Sidney Adolphus Hills, I 20s (no warrant of fitness, 10s; ho tail, I light, ss). No warrant of fitness— J Merlin Jenkins, ss; Morris F. Pearce, 20s; Frank Edgar. Reaby, ss; William Henry Thomas, Ssi No cycle light—Jack McEwan, 10s; John Hugh McQuilkin, 10s. Obstructing right-of-way—Peter Wilkinson, 20s. CIVIL COURT (Before Mr F. F. Reid, S.M.) DECISION RESERVED Mrs M. M. Armstrong (Mr K. W. Walton) claimed possession of a safe or its value, £ 14, from Colin Thomas, a petrol-station proprietor (Mr A- W. Brown), alleging that it had been detained by defendant, who had been a tenant of the plaintiff. - - Evidence was given that the safe had H been in the petrol station for 13 years. : ■ Thomas had been a tenant for 10 years;* and when he bought the place he had . B retained the safe, regarding it as part'; I of the building and not as a chattel. H The Magistrate reserved his decision. Ej JUDGMENT FOR PLAINTIFF v 1 R. F. W. Ashworth (Mr R. Twyne- I 1 bam) claimed £2 11s from A. G. ■ Parker as payment for advertisement! I in the “New Zealand Shipping I Gazette.” The claim was contested. B Judgment was given for the plaintiff.' JUDGMENT BY DEFAULT . Judgment for the plaintiffs in the following cases was given by default:— W.. Wiggins, Ltd. v. E. J. Cross, £lO 16s 7d; Turnbull and Jones, Ltd. v. J. Isherwood, £6 0s 3d; F. E. S. Dale •v. E. Hayden, £6 4s 2d; Trade Auxiliary Company of New Zealand, Ltd. v. A. W. Sparkes, £4 16s 9d; same v. I R. A. Martin. £1 12s 3d; Sollitt, Salkeld, and Company, Ltd. v. A. BSeeker, £ll 8s 3d; Arnbell Order Company, Ltd. v. W. J. Langdon, £4 5s 6d; Briscoe and Company, Ltd. Y. D. Gibson, £44 10s 4d; S. E. Perry v. E. G. Roach, 16s 8d; Cbristcburch Battery Company, Ltd. v. G. Johnston, .£22 16s 6d; Power Battery Company v. Ashburton Wrecking Company, £2 5s sd; Hume Pipe Company (Australasia), Ltd. v. Davies Dismantling Company, Ltd., £2 15s; Arnbell Order Company* Ltd. v. W. Shilton. £4 15s; Ashby. Bergh and Company, Ltd. v. ; A. G Parker, £9 14s; Cash Order Purchases, Ltd. v. E. H. Haughey, £6; Robert Francis, Ltd. v. Valentine Rodgers £lO 3s 10d; same v. John William Anderson, £8 17s 4d; same v. William Lintoh, £1 18s; Beath and-'Cempany.-Ltd. v.. A. T. Harvey, llsr9d;?AtS«l! Union Oil Company, Ltd. v. J, Wakeman, costs only; H. O. J. Solomon v Mac. F. Meikle, £11; Arnbell Orda Company, Ltd. v. Raymond Ernest McPherson, £9 4s 9d. JUDGMENT SUMMONSES, Judgment debtors were pc judgment summonses, to make pay merits as follows, in default the term! of imprisonment stated, subject to suspension as stated in parenthesis:— J. R. Gaskin, £2l 19s to Consolidate Distributors, Ltd., 21 days (till Jw 9). R. Witty, £9 2s to the Irish Liner Spinning and Weaving Company, Ltd. 10 days (on payment of 5s a week). C Meyer, £4 3s to the Irish Linen Spinning and Weaving Company, Ltd. four days (till July 9). J. D. Baldwin £2 5s to Universal Business Direc* tories, Ltd., four days (no suspension!