MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26126, 31 May 1950, Page 4

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

TUESDAY (Before Mr F. F. Reid. S.M.) TAXI-DRIVER FINED On a charge of double-h.ring his taxicab. to which he pleaded guilty, John Harold Baird was fined 20s. On a further charge of charging incorrect fares, to which he pleadea not guilty, he was fined £4. . A _ The charges were brought by the traffic department of the Cnristchurch City Council. m Llewellyn Edward Evans, a traffic officer employed by the Christchurch City Council, said that Baird had demanded tull meter charges from all the fares. These charges totalled £1 4s 6d for a distance tor which the legal fare was 7s 6d. Baird said that if he had overcarged the fares, he had done so by mistake. He had accepted the otner three fares with the permission of the first hirer, he said.

TRAFFIC CASES Fines were imposed as xoiiows in cases bi ought by the Transport Department:— No light on bicycle; Jonn Hunter Baldwin, 2us (no red reuector, costs; no wn.te patch on mudguard, costs); June Caiae.wood Borrie, costs; Aston Wyatt Gieatheau, 20s; Christopher George Haroiuge, lus (no led reflector, costs); Morris ,r».e.th Haw Ker, 2us (no red reflector, costs); Maurice Aieyn Herbert, 2Us; Margaret Frances Heroert, costs; Myrlyn Cecil Preece, 20s; Albeit Allan Thomas Stewart, 20s. No warrant of fitness: Henry Charles Burr, lus; Arthur Kenelem neave, 10s; John Wallace O'Brien, 20s. Parking venicle on footpath: Cyril William Thompson, 20s; David Hock, 20s. Fines were imposed as follows in cases brougnt by the traffic department oi the Christchurch City Council:— Parking without lights: Hilton Roy Adams, costs; William Laverick Adamson, costs; Richard William Andrews, costs; Ivan Buchanan, costs; Gordon Ogilvie Fairiie, 10s; Clarence Norman Hodgson, costs; Charles Deeming, costs; Laurence Aioert Mahoney, costs; Harley Atherton Simmons, costs; Gavin Frederick Stewait, 10s.

Parking offences: Leslie Albert Blackmore, 10s; Winifred Irene Claie, 10s; Colieeii Margaret Cooper, 10s; Cecil W. Cox, lus; Archioald Joseph David Dearsley, 30s; Mary Ellen Clare Greenwood, costs; Etnne Hamber, 10s; Marion Hamilton, 10s; Ihomas David Flirlt, 10s; Robert Bruce Hamilton, 10s; Jack Benjamin Hinuen, 10s; John Aitken Hood, 10s; Jean Hurst, 10s; Eveiyn Maud Johnston, 10s; Donald Laugesen, 10s; Frank Ludwig Leonard, 10s; William Nicoll McDonald, 10s; James Henry McGavock, 10s; Hector John McLean, 10s; John O’Connell, 10s; Anne Uriel Pope, 10s; Trevor Albert Riley, 10s; Wilham Charles Smith, 20s. No warrant of fitness: Arthur James Gordon, 10s; Kenneth Walter Hickmott, 10s (parking on offside of another vehicle, 10s); Arnold Edward Ison, 10s (parking in prohibited area, 10s); Ronald Charles Jemmett, 10s (driving vehicle other than specified on licence, 20s); Isaac James Kildare, 10s (no driver’s licence, 10s); Laurens Steenhart, jun., 10s. Exceeding speed limit: Tnomas Duncan Allan, £4; Raymond Gordon Browne, £4; Harvey Hindmarsh Atkinson. £2; Peter William Meyer, £4 (driving vehicle other than specified on licence, 10s); Leslie Graham Perham, £4; Jack Leslie Pritchard, £3 (driving vehicle other than specified on-licence, 10s); Ralph Meredith Satterthwaite, £4.

Failing to display L plates: Kenneth Edward Maynard, 10s on each of two charges. A charge against Gordon Peter Ferguson of overtaking a tram on the wrong side was dismissed on the ground that the information had been laid under the wrong section of the Traffic Regulations. A charge against Laurens Steenhart, jun., of overtaking a tram on the off-side was dismissed on the ground that the wording of the charge did not disclose any breach of the regulations. A charge against Frederick Benest Robilliard (Mr C. S. Thomas) of failing to give way to the right when making a right-hand turn was dismissed on the ground that no offence had been disclosed. CIVIL . CASES (Before Mr Raymond Ferner, S.M.) CLAIM FOR POSSESSION A claim by Laurence David Parris (Mr B. J. Drake), of Christchurch, a baker, against Rooert William Sadler (Mr J. K. Moloney), of Riccarton, a clerk, and Lorna Winifred Sadler, his wife, for possession of a dwellinghouse at 5 Division street, was part heard and adjourned. The plaintiff said he was living with his wife, who was expecting a baby, in what was known as a "cabin,” a room about 14ft by 14ft, in a motor camp in Pages road. He was paying £2 10s a week in ’ rent. Defendant was renting his house in Division street at £1 5s a week. He was quite prepared to let the defendant have half the House for a short period to enable him to find accommodation. Defendant said he had endeavoured without success to find alternative accommodation. He and his wife and young daughter, and his wire's two brothers, aged 17 and 21, were living in the house, which had three bedrooms, a dining-room, sitting-room, and kitchen. The Magistrate said he would not care to make a peremptory order for possession. On his suggestion the hearing was aujourned to enable the parties to discuss ariangements lor sharing the house. Counsel informed the Magistrate later that the parties had agreed to terms for sharing the dwelling. The Magistrate then adjourned the case until November 30. JUDGMENT FOR DEFENDANT Judgment was given for the defendant in a case in which Herbert Hugh O’Connor (Mr K. W. Frampton), a foreman carpenter, claimed £2O from Henare Kahu Pitama (Mr W. F. Tracy), a painter. The c airn was for the amount of a promissory note, which the defendant was alleged to have signed on January 10, 1949. The plaintiff said that he contracted to build a house for the defendant in 1946 for £1320. He had done extra work on the house amounting to £2O. His father, who handled his business affairs, obtained ft promissory note for that amount from 4the defendant. Hugh O’Connor said he had tried several times to get the money, and finally obtained a promissory note on January 10, 1949. He could not remember where the signing of the note h-d taken place, said the witness to the Magistrate. The defendant sard he signed the note in September, 1946, on the understanding that he could get a further loan of £2O from the Rehabilitation Department. He had been away from Christchurch on holiday on January 10, 1949. The Magistrate said he was by no means satisfied that the bill bore the date of the time it was presented. JUDGMENTS FOR PLAINTIFF Judgment for the plaintiff by default was given in the following cases:—Hamer Electrical Company, Ltd., v. R. G. Green, £ll Us lid; Hamer Electrical Company, Ltd., v. R. G. Green, £23 14s lOd.