MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25139, 21 March 1947, Page 3

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

THURSDAY (Before Mr Raymond Ferner, S.M.) COMMON ASSAULT Pleading guilty to a charge of assaulting Joan Lillian Henry, Arthur John Henry, a process worker living at Harewood settlement, was ordered to come up for sentence if called upon within two months. Henry said he had had a quarrel with his wife and admitted striking her in the face. CYCLE DEALER FINED “You imperil the renewal of your licence by your failure to record these dealings,” said the Magistrate, when imposing a fine of £2 on each of two charges against Phillip Francis O’Shea. O’Shea, for whom Mr J. T. Watts appeared, pleaded guilty to thfe charges that being a second-hand dealer, he failed to enter purchases of two bicycles. Mr Watts said his client did not know how to record these transactions. THEFT ADMITTED Desmond Patrick Stevens, of 12 Angus street, Sydenham, was ordered to be placed on probation for 18 months, when he pleaded guilty to .a charge of stealing £2 10s in money from Cecil Francis. Senior-Detective F. J. Brady said that Stevens, who was a labourer, aged 19 years, had stolen the money from hTs brother-in-law, Francis, while on a visit to Francis’s house. Stevens said he had since paid the money back. NAME SUPPRESSED A man whose name was suppressed was convicted of the theft of a tricycle. He was ordered to appear in the Court next week. The Probation Officer (Mr W. H. Darby) was asked to make a report. LICENSING ACT Breaches of the Licensing Act were dealt with as follows:—■ Found on licensed premises after 'hours: William Guilford, John Clifford Frederick Hurrell, Maurice Kearney, Peter Kearney, Walter John Leversedge, Frederick William Thompson, William Edward Morgan, Lance Marriott, James John Marlow, Honor Bonisch, James Alexander McKenzie, Gordon Frank Anderson, Tnomas Archer, Edward S. Cunningham, Edward T. Cunningham, Thomas Joseph Daley, Reginald Evans Ede, James Malcolm Kevin, Maurice Lynch, Albert William Reece, David Shannon, each fined 20s; giving false name and address to the police, and being found on licensed premises after hours: Arthur Herbert Clime, Robert Clime, and Noeline Scollard, each fined £3 on first charge and 20s on the second; consuming liquor on licensed premises after hours: James Gordon Joseph Mitchell, Thomas Herbert Morgan, George Goodwin McDougall, Louisa Parker, Phillips Joseph Parker, Cecil Patrick Walklih, Walter Leonard Walls, Lawrence Edward Morran, Herbert Wilson, Neii Gray, Herbert Alexander Green, David Russell Green, Winston Jack Hill, Leslie James, Gordon Roy McCallum. Norman McJLeod," Athol Young, John- Bell, Max Graham Eden, Ernest Hills, Ellis Norman Horton, Percy Hughes, David Courtney Parson, Douglas Lindsay Smith, -George Edward Wilkins, Jack Bernard Bailey, Clement Roy Breitmeier, Leonard Laurie Butterfield, Stanley William Connor, Hector John Fraser, each fined £2; attempting to remove liquor from licensed premises after hours: Frederick Walter Garland (found on licensed premises, 20s), and Keith Fitzsimmons, each fined £2; selling liquor and allowing consumption of liquor on licensed premises after hours, Charles Leeming and Dennis Coffey, each fined £lO on each charge. Liquor near a dance hall: John Alexander Robertson, fined £3. CIVIL COURT (Before Mr F. F. Reid, S.M.) JUDGMENT FOR PLAINTIFF The trustees of the Star of Opawa Lodge, No. 30 Independent Order of Oddfellows of New Zealand (Mr J. N. McFarlane) claimed £4 14s 2d from G. Newman (Mr J. A. Kennedy). Mr McFarlane said that the plaintiffs had let the lodge hall to the defendant on October 23, 1946, for a wedding function at which damage had occurred. Giving judgment for the plaintiff, the Magistrate said that if any material damage were done to a hall while it was being hired, the owner was entitled to look to the licensee for payment. CLAIM FOR REPAIRS Herbert T. Miles, a newspaper runner (Mr R. A. Cuthbert) claimed £lO 8s as the cost of repairs to his motor-car from D. L. Snook, an engineer (Mr J. A. Kennedy). It was submitted that a collision in which the plaintiff's car had been damaged had been caused by the negligent driving of the defendant. Judgment was given for the plaintiff for the amount claimed. JUDGMENTS BY DEFAULT Judgment for plaintiff by default was entered in the following civil claims:—G. Struthers v. T. E. Rapley, £3 16s 6d; W. E. Munday and Sons v. I. W. Spicer, £4 Is lOd; W. E. Munday and Sons v. W. G. Levy, £9; Gordon and Gotch (Australasia, Ltd.), v. P. H. Moody, £3 2s 4d; J. F. Scott and J. W. Scott, trading as Scott Decorating Service, v. Francis Clifton Hellyer, £5; Cash Order Purchases, Ltd., v. W. H. Strange, £7 19s lid; Smiths City Market, Ltd., v. G. W. Wilson, £l3 13s 9d: Cash Radio Company, Ltd., v. J. A. Barrow, £2 5s 9d; N. F. Greenslade v. R. H. Cruthers, £7 8s; Alicia B. Tootell v. H. Cornish, £l2.