Magistrate’s Court MAN FINED £l0 FOR ASSAULT AFTER FIGHT

Press, Volume C, Issue 29671, 15 November 1961, Page 12

Magistrate’s Court MAN FINED £l0 FOR ASSAULT AFTER FIGHT

Ronald Thomas Mclntosh, aged 37, a truck driver, was fined £lO, ta default 10 days’ imprisonment, by Mr E. A. Loe, S.M., in, the Magistrate's Court yesterday Dn a charge of assaulting James Reginald Bonner on Monday'afternoon. Mclntosh, who. pleaded guilty, was not represented by counsel. Sergeant B. D. Read said that the accused was involved in a fight outside Bonner’s Hotel in Moorhouse avenue at 2 -p.nv on Monday. The licensee of the hotel, Bonner, came out and broke the fight up and he told the accused not'to’go back' into the hotel. The- accused then ■hit the licensee on the left side of the jew, said Sergeant Read. He said it was not a sertot® assault, but Bonner had suffered a headache for 'the rest of the day. In his own defence Mclntosh said that he was honestly trying to help someone and was amazed when he found out it was the licensee be had hit. REMANDED David Scott Gfobons, aged 44, was remanded on bail until November 20 on a charge of unlawful oar conversion at Christchurch on November 13.

TRAFFIC CASES On traffic Chargee brought by the Christchurch City Council, offenders were dealt with as follows: Exceeding 30 miles an hour: Sidney Edward Clothier, £2; Trevor Fairbairn, £2; Alisoum Margaret Masters, £2; Mary Rose Jones, £2; Reymond Robert AitChison, £3; Malcolm James Barry, £3; James Rix Blackley, £4; Barry Royal Columbus, £3; lance Basil Cottrell, £3; George Duffin, £3; Mervyn Dunn, £2; James Finlay Elder, £6; Jasnes Shane Ferguson, £2; Colin Stanley Harvey, £3; EMnabeth Hauschild, £3; Barry Cbarlte Keats, £3; Herbert Kelly, £2; Idris . Julian Hugh Kelly, £2; Florence Winifred Kennedy, £3; Peter Neville, £4; Robert Gordon O’Oallahan, £4; Trevor Odering, £5; Keith Stockeridge, £4; Charles Watson, £3; Ronald Samuel Wilson, £5.

Parking deer time limit: Iris Lillian Cross. £1; Bernard Bryan FfiigNt, £2; David James Thomson, £3; Gordon Webster, £B. Parked on offside of another vetatete: Robert William Bearman, £3; John Leslie Anson, £3. '.

No front light en cycle: Anthony Patrick Canowan, £3 (no rear light, £2), Failing to give way: Owen Michael Fonde, £5. Charles WHton Wellman, £3. Driving without due care and attention: Patrick Francis McManus, £5. No warrant gt fitness: Alastair Macfcley, £3. Failing to stop at sign: James Barrie. £l. Permitting another person to drive a rental car Archie Jacobs, £27-'- X Parked across vehicular entrance: Michael Colin Harris, £4. - Carrying pfllton passenger while rartctoMk David George Donga*, £3. Operatfog rttoicie without silencers: Warren Noel Houtgrtoo, £3. (Before Mr A P. Blair. S.M.) CIVIL. ACTION A civil action brought by Oliver Gibson Scott, a former satiwuw and now an inmate of Pnparua Prison, seeking an order for accounts between himself and mi former employer, McCalls Electrical, Ltd, and judgment

for money said to be owing to him from the accounts was adjourned sine die after two witnesses had been called by the plaintiff. The hearing lasted all day. A counter-claim, also for accounts to be taken and for judgment for amounts said to be due, was entered by the defendant company. Scott appeared on his own behalf, and Mr P. G. S. Penlington represented the defendant company. The plaintiff was employed by the company from February, 1066 to May, 1060.

Opening his case, Scott said that he wrote to the defendant company on May 30, 1960, for a full financial statement of his affairs. He said he did not receive the statement until October 28, 1960, and he found it to be incorrect. He received no further information from the firm, he said.

Robert Sheriff Black, managed of McCalls Electrical, Ltd., said that all Scott’s earnings were credited to his account except £lO a week which was paid to his wife for housekeeping expenses. The witness said that when the plaintiff joined the firm he was an undischarged bankrupt.

In adjourning the case the Magistrate asked Mr Penlington and the plaintiff to submit to him, before the hearing was resumed, questions of fact and law about the case they would ultimately ask a referee to decide.

(Before Mr E. S. J. a Crutchley, SM.) REMANDED { Changed with unlawfully ; converting a truck on No- t vember 13, a youth whose i name was suppressed was t remanded in custody until j November 17, when his case j will be heard in the Chil- s dren’s Court. ( CIVIL CASES < (Before Mr Raymond Ferner, ; S.M.) JUDGMENT SUMMONSES The following orders were made on judgment summonses!— Clarence Morgan Daviee, labourer, to pay E. L. Bayliss £3 13s 6d, in default four days’ imprisonment; A. Ir. Manson, worker, to pay DXC., Ltd., £lO Sb lid, in default 12 days’ imprisonment, warrant suspended while £1 10s a week is paid; A. L. Manson, worker, to pay DXC., Ltd, £27 ISa 9d, in default 29 days’ imprisonment, warrant suspended while £1 10a a week is paid; F. A PoHitt, fitter and turner, to pay Upright Scaffold, Ltd., £l2 ss, in default 14 days’ tmpisonment; E. Dixon to pay Papanui Electric, Ltd., £8 8a 7d, in default seven days* imprisonment; A. Le Breton, married woman, to pay Ambell Order Company, Ltd., £8 14b Od, in default nine days* imprisonment, warrant suspended while £1 10b a week is paid; Ray Cootes, labourer, to pay J. X Veitch. £29 15e, in default 31 days’

imprisonment, warrant suepended while 10s a week is paid; A. Le Breton, labourer, to pay the Chrietctiureh Gas, Coal, and Coke Company, Ltd., £l5 5s Id, in default 17 days’ imprisonment, warrant suspended white £1 • week is paid; J. Hedwig, spinster, to pay California Sportswear, Ltd. £l9 Ils 7d, in default 22 days* imprisonment; 'X Greenback, packer, to pay California Sportswear, Ltd, £M 5s 3d, in default 39 days' imprisonment, no warreM’to be issued until toatie days after service of order; Sydney Harkness, driver, to pay Butterfields (Chitatatereh), Ltd., £4 17e 3d, in default

five days’ imprisonment; A. Milne, married woman, to pay A. C. Roberta £ll 10s 6d, in default 13 days’ imprisonment, warrant suspended while £1 a week is paid; D. H. Reed, caretaker, to pay L. D. Grant, £22, in default 25 days’ imprisonment, no warrant to be issued until three days after service of order; Donald MacDonald, bottle dealer, to pay John Bernard Baker £27 11< Bd, in default 29 days* imprisonment; F. Cree, soldier, to pay Frankton Petrol Service Station £l5 Os 3d, to default 16 days’ imprisonment; Thomas Beta Te Aho, Poet and Telegraph Department employee, to pay County Stores, Ltd., £39 19s sd, in default 42 days’ imprisonment. POSSESSION ORDER Mrs E. Powers was ordered to give up possession of a flat at 162 Fitzgerald avenue to Eric James Stock and others, forthwith and to pay arrears of rent and costs totalling £7O 17s.

JUDGMENT FOR PLAINTIFF George P. Thomas, a painter, was ordered to give up possession of scaffolding which he had hired, or its value of £l4B 10b Id, and pay rent for equipment totalling £351 10s, to .Upright Scaffold, Ltd. Mr R. L. Kerr, for the pteintiff, said it had been difficult to locate Thomas. He understood be had been walking on crutches through New Zealand.