MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23414, 22 August 1941, Page 10

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

THURSDAY • ‘j. (Before Mr E. C. Lewey, SJ4.) ■£' - COMMITTED FOR SENTENQj V On two charges of forgery, to tti of which he pleaded guilty, ArS? Henry Frederick Fenn was coq?' ted to the Supreme Court for BeaSS* The two cheques which were ject of the charge were signed name of ; John Lewis, of BarrjJSS-? One for £IOO was given to a agency firm, H. T. Penrose and’fW, pany, and the other, for £3, cashed by L.- J. Mitchell for the fhS of J. M. Mitchell, Ltd., furniturenS?' facturers. Evidence was given by liana McEwan, a land and‘,propS§lfc salesman, that accused called’pn'firij his - name Was John Lewis, and ttatfi-'-had just sold his farm to a dredtS ' company. He was shown two Pros2 ties, and finally, after some days, mhhe would buy one, and gave wltaSa cheque for £IOO, drawn on ♦ty hirT of New South Wales, GreymoUtlLfSl signed in the name of Lewis, cheque later was returned fromlffi® bank with the advice that Uew&iS closed his account, and that the>~vM«K compared with the might be a forgery.. Evidence on deposition by Li JfjwHK chell, who could not attend the'CSS® because of illness, said cashed a personal cheque, siwtwfaaß the name of Lewis, for £3, cused. Saying that he was to buy a house, anjL that his; Lewis, accused had told witaeallK would probably buy £ 250 worth R. M. Wolfe, Christchurch of the Bank of New South Wal**JSffl| that accused called several him, and said he was John LewSsSß' Barrytown, and that he had a'dS|9| balance of £13,000 at the Gr?yjfinfl| branch of* the bank. He said fae|3B buying a house and asked for%SB bought a cheque form on write a cheque for the first He later came back and bought£Nfin more cheque forms. Witness later!gSß| came suspicious and informed- tbeißHf tective_ Office. ■-‘■IsIH John Lewis, a miner, ofTßarryMiHK said he had closed his account fijßi .the Greymouth branch of the Buhßb New South Wales last year. '.H£!aMB the -accused, but he had no.aatMH 'whatever to sign his A-statement which the accusedtfM| made at the -police station adagtHK signing the name of Lewis, that the cheques should be paid-,** Lewis’s account. His plan in ghSp the land agent a cheque was 'ttfmma receipt which' he hoped td’i'sfiSip® business firms to induce them tO'M||E other; cheques. , ■ MILK BELOW STANDARfiJ^J: To a charge of selling milk; W|||| the required standard of - Maurice Blackburn (Mr sen), a milk vendor, pleaded guilty, and was fined £5 and ordered to pay costs. Mr Jacobsen said that Blackburn had had complaints about the strong flavour of his milk, but this .he had thought due to the cows having been put on to a new diet of chou moellier. It was not mixed milk, and, Mr Jacobsen said, Blackburn had been quite unable to explain the staleness. Senior-Sergeant Bickerdike said that the Department of Health claimed that chou moellier would not affect the flavour of the milk. Blackburn had had one previous conviction, about five years ago, for selling stale milk. CIVIL COURT (Before Mr A. A. McLachlan, S.M.) JUDGMENT FOR DEFENDANT; James Anthony Bourke (Mr R. A. Young), a storeman, claimed £25 18s lid medical expenses and £75 general damages from the Canterbury and Westland centre of the St. John Ambulance Association (Mr C. S. Thomas). The claim arose out of a collision between an ambulance owned by the defendant society and driven by one of its servants, and a motorcycle on which Bourke was a passenger. Mr Young submitted that the accident, which took place at the intersection of Cblombo * and Gloucester Streets, was the result of negligence on the part of the ambulance-driver, in that (1) he failed to give way to the motor-cycle, which had the right of way; and (2) that the ambulancedriver aid not keep a proper look-out. Noel Broadley Hardy, a fitter and turner, of Wigram aerodrome, said in evidence that he was the driver of the motor-cycle, and his speed as he approached the intersection was between 20 and 25 miles an hour.- He was the first at the intersection, had the right-of-way, and the ambulance could and should have stopped. Douglas John Somerville, the drivays of the ambulance, said that whenk||| approached the intersection at a spedja between 10 and 15 miles an hour, motor-cycle was a chain back frog|| the corner. He considered that ifei the circumstances there had been pH necessity for him to stop. His attw’g tion was drawn to some pedestnwft|| crossing the street, and the next hub* * , he knew was that the motor-cycle had crashed into his vehicle. Judgment for the defendant society, with costs, was given, tM Magistrate saying that the speed of the motor-cyclist at about 25 miles an . hour was excessive. | JUDGMENTS BY DEFAULT Judgment for plaintiff by default was given in each of the following civil claims: —William Calder v. T; Johnston, £2B; C. C. Bateman v. Rae Thomson, £8 2s 7d; Cash Order Purchases, Ltd., v. H. Needham, £1 R. and E. Tingey and Company, LttU v. Thomas Grimston Jackson, £3 «s 6d; the Trade Auxiliary Company ot New Zealand, Ltd., v J. A. £2 2s 3d; A. Clifford v. R. S. Field, £3 15s; M. C. McKenzie ■> v. Harold Findlay, £1 3s 7d; J. Ballantyneand Company, Ltd., v. Mrs A. L. Arthur, £1 18s; same v. Miss J. A. Arthur, £1 8s 4d; same v. Corporal J. T. Bethejl£9 7s! same v. Miss C. Co£ £3 u lid; same v. H. J. Cooper, £1 19s 6 , S. Meltzer v. S. Glover, £32 10s, JW. Christiansen v. G. Edwards, *> 10s; Riccarton Borough Counol . • . Reginald Arthur Taylor and Gertrude • Grace Taylor, £3O 10s lOd. ; JUDGMENT SUMMONS M. Baird was ordered to P a X Irish Linen Spinning and Weawns Company, Ltd.. £2 18s 9d, in drfßg - : imprisonment for three days, the wg rant to be suspended while 5s a wee* is paid. .