MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29250, 7 July 1960, Page 20

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

WEDNESDAY (Before Mr A. P. Blair, S.M.) THEFT OF SHOES Seen to leave a shoe store in Colombo street, on July 5. with a pair of new shoes under his arm, Vincent John Matthews, aged 19, a workman, admitted when later accosted in Armagh street, that he had stolen the shoes from the shop, said Sergeant B. D. Read. Matthews pleaded guilty to a charge of theft of the shoes, valued at £5 9s, and was fined £7. ASSAULTED WIFE Warning' Reginald John Hills, aged 30, that he had no right to take the law into his own hands and hit a woman, the Magistrate convicted him and. ordered him to come up for sentence if called on, when he appeared on a charge of assault on his wife. FAILED TO CLEAR NOXIOUS WEEDS He had intended to impose a heavy fine upon the defendant because the campaign against noxious weeds would be a failure unless everyone co-operated, said the Magistrate, fining Stanley James Bultitude £1 on a charge of failing to comply with a noxious weeds notice. Bultitude pleaded guilty to the charge. The Magistrate said he was imposing only a nominal fine on the basis that the defendant would clear his section of noxious weeds almost immediately. He would also, take into account that the defendant had a back injury. FISHING REGULATION BREACH There was no reason why the defendant, who had previously been fined for fishing from a boat in Lake Katrine, in 1957, should not abide by the rules as other sportsmen did, said Mr B. McClelland, in a prosecution brought by the North Canterbury Acclimatisation Society against Herbert McDonald Watson. The defendant was fined £8 for _ a breach of the Freshwater Fisheries Regulations on Lake Tennyson, on January 13. FISHED WITHOUT LICENCE For fishing without a licence in the Waimakariri river on January 21, George H. Black was fined £l2. A North Canterbury Acclimatisation Society ranger gave evidence that he saw the defendant fishing at the main bridge. He said the defendant admitted he was fishing for salmon and that he did not have a licence, but intended to buy one. REMANDED Eric Paul Henry Cremen, aged 37, was remanded on bail to July 14 on a charge of being idle and disorderly. (Before Mr W. S. Spence, S.M.) JUDGMENT FOR DEFENDANT Saying that it just did not seem likely that George Emery Simms, a rubber worker, could be so hardworking, or keep his hours of work so neatly on notepaper, the Magistrate gave judgment for the defendant in a civil claim. Simms (Mr A. K. Archer) claimed £lO7 from V. G. Spiller, executor of the estate of Alan Borland Thomas as reimbursement tor work done on property belonging to Thomas. Spiller was represented by Mr A. D. Holland. Simms said that Thomas had bought the house and had asked him if he would help him repair it. He worked from January to May, 1959. Simms said that he knew Thomas had no money to pay him for the work, but Thomas insisted that a record of the hours be kept, saying that “he would see us right” Thomas, however, died unexpectedly of a heart attack in October of that year. "Simms must prove a contract for the claim and he has failed to do so,” said Mr Holland, in asking for judgment for the deCendant. “Simms said that payments were never discussed between Thomas and himself and the record produced here cannot be believed.”