MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23400, 6 August 1941, Page 10

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

■ TUESDAY (Before ,Mr, E. .C. ;Levvey,;S.M.) ; BREACH OF PROBATION

: John Bullar McKenzie appeared for sentence on a charge, of failing to comply with the terms, of his release on probation. He wdsalso charged ■ with failure to make maintenance payments in respect-of his child,' the arrears being £l6 15s.- > •• •• •’ . .. _ r After hearing;a report from the Probation Officer (Mr : -,W. H... Darby), who said that little more ’ could be done With' the accused, "the; Magistrate sentenced McKenzie to three months’ imprisonment: with ’hard ' labour on the maintenance charge.'and one month’s imprisonment on'the,other charge, the sentences to be concurrent. ’ ' ' IDLE AND DISORDERLY Francis McCluskey, alias McLiskey, alias Walter Palmer, aged 54,. of ■ no fixed abode,. pleaded. guilty to a charge of being idle and disorderly; in that he had insufficient lawful means -of support. ’ Sfehipr-Sergeant J.vßickerdike said that McCluskey; on August 4-called at the ■ Prebbleton ■ Hotel and - requested a meal and mbed. He 'was in a ffilthy condition, and when;the police were called he said ■: thaMie bad not worked for the, last eight months. “He is quite a. harmless individual," but, liquor is his trouble,” SenioriSergeant Bickerdike said. • McCluskey was * ordered *,to come. up for sentence if called on within three 'years/: a condition . being/that he,.take out a-prohibition. order; for each year. .- v V /REMANDED’/ James Henry Donaldson, a labourer, aged '2O, ton ; a .charge : of .stealing)a ;tin of biscuits, valped- at Bs,the property of Leonard Keith McGregor. was- remanded to-August'S., .

TRAFFIC CASIIIS No warrant of fitness: Raymond Allen, 5s (no driver’s licence, ss); Joseph W. Gurr, ss: Herbert Moon, ss; Robert McK. Bailey, 10s; Eric T. Beaven, 10s (no driver’s licence, ss); Cyril H. Blake, ss; Butler Timber Company, ss; Edith Carter, costs only; Norton Francis. ss; John Hammett, 10s; Maitland T. Harman, 10s (no driver’s licence, ss); Benjamin Hayes, ss; Warren T. Kaler, costs only; John M. Kirk, ss; Frederick L. Martin, 10s (no driver’s licence, 10s); Irene Pedder, 20s (no driver’s licence, ss); Ernest C. Searell, costs only; Howard M. Tapper, ss; William C. Witte, ss; Samuel J. Woods, 10s. No driver’s licence: Lewis Raymond Neal, costs only; James B. Taylor,.ss; Eric J. Bycroft, ss; Prosper H. Dirago, ss; Raymond. East, ss; Leslie B. Greer, ss; Lena Holliss, ss; Arthur Jones, costs only; Matthew C. Oates, 5s (no warrant of fitness, 10s); Joseph H. Suckling, ss; John Francis Topp, ss; Eric Trueman, ss; Arnold Warren, ss. Failing to keep to the left: Sydney Chetwin 10s; Ernest Smith, costs only. Parking near a pedestrian crossing: Claude W. Evans, ss, Driving without due care and attention: John Fry and David Liddell, dismissed. Parking in a, prohibited area: Allan Galletly, ss. Falling to give way: Edgar O. Heald, ’£2. Speeding: Robert G. Gibb, £2 (no warrant of fitness, ss): Herbert Stephen Righton, £2; . Stanislous Murphy, £2; Edgar T. Salveson, 20s; John Nicholson Smith, £2 (no drivers licence, ss). Driving in a dangerous manner: Philip Samuel -McLeod, 20s (failing to give way, 20s). Cycling at night without a light: Lawrence Jones, costs only (no brake, costs only; giving a false name and address, 10s); Harold Bailey, 10s; Ray Young, convicted and discharged. . CIVIL CASES (Before Mr H. A. Young, S.M.) .Judgment was given for the plaintiff, by'default in each of the following cases:—K. McLellan v. F. Payne, £3 12s 6d; Pyne, Gould, Guinness, Ltd., v, D. Newbury, £1 Is; J. Pankhurst v. W. Corlett. £29 3s; L. B. Scott, Ltd., y. H. Love, £5 15s; Whitcombe and Tombs, Ltd., v. L. J. Thwaites, £6 Is 6d; Cash Order -Purchases, Ltd., v. E: M.; Crocker. £1 13s 6d; Mrs M. E. Anderson v. R. C. Lintott, £l6 6s 4d and . possession; Waimairi • County Council v. Norman C. W. Dawson, £37 13s 6d; Christchurch City Council v. Alffed Driscoll, £8 15s 9d; New Brighton Borough Council v. Robert Milliard Spiers, trustee in the Estate of the* late Edith Gertrude Spiers, £3 17s; same v. Mary. Madden. £1 18s 9d; Christchurch City Council v. Emma Mary Fisher. £22 17s 4d; same v. George Angus Bunz £9 10s 6d; same v. William Jamieson. £l4 4s 3d: same v. Frederick W. Trotter. £7 5s 9d: same v. George Angus Bunz, £lO 5s 2d; same v. ■ William V. Mclntyre. £ 8 16s Sd.