MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 27, 27 October 1926, Page 7

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

POLICE AND CIVIL CASES Mr. E; Page, S.M., dealt with the police cases in the Magistrates Cuuit yesterday. . . . For being found m charge of a motoicvcle while in an intoxicated condition in Kent Terrace on Monday afternoon, Charles Goulstoue, a labourer (aged 3a), was fined ®L‘5 and had his driver s license suspended for twelve months. Five weeks were allowed in which to pay the fine. .... , Robert William Neilson (aged o 3) was fined £2, in default seven days imprisonment with hard labour, on the charge of using obscene, language in Courtenay Place. He was fined 10s„ in default 48 hours’ imprisonment, tor a second offence of drunkenness. George Armitage, alias George McLaine, a labourer (aged 32), who admitted theft by failing to account tor £9, received on terms requiring him to account for it to Henry Crowhurst at Raurimu, was sentenced to three months imprisonment with hard labour. Aho sentence is to be served at Ihe expiration of. six months’ imprisonment accused is now undergoing for theft. James Benjamin Southwood, a labourer (aged 30), who pleaded guilty to the charge of being found by night without lawful excuse, but in circumstances not disclosing the intent of any other crime, in a building in Wakefield Street, was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence when called upon within twelve months. Alfred Janies Luxon, alias A. J. Todd, a labourer (aged 44), was remanded to appear at Palmerston North on October 29 on the charge of obtaining £l, with intent to. defraud, from William Henry Hall, manager of Dalgety and Co., Palmerston North, by falsely pretending that he was employed by the Oamaru branch of that firm. BY-LAW CASES The following fines were inflicted by Mr. J. H. Salmond, S.M., for breaches of the by-laws:— Travelling at excessive speed m motorcar: John W. Downey, Herbert Henry Lee (Johnsonville), George Matthew Lindsay, Freda Parkinson (Johnsonville), Thomas Howard Peet (Johnsonville), Henry’ Watts, Claude Heath Wood, each £2; Frederick Palmer (Johnsonville), £l. Leaving car unattended: John Burns, Joseph William Carr, Horaco Rupert Maybury, Jack Huia Mills, Erio Standidge, each 10s. Driving unregistered car: John Burns, Frederick Palmer, Harold Thomas Dalziel Robertson, each £2; Redvers Thomson, £l. - . Car without lights: Victor Carmine, Ronald Mornington Doig, William Green, Arthur Moody Holmes, William John Stewart McCurdie, Janies Joseph McNamara, Henry Thomas O’N'eifl, each 10s. Negligent driving: Arthur Compton, Archibald John Dale McArthur, each £2Failure to notify change of ownership: Robert Leslie Jones, Leonard Mills, each £l. Driving without a number plate: Jack Hawke, 10s.; Hugh Macale, £l. Driving without a license: Louis Rowlev ordered to pay costs. Encumbering footpath with overhanging toad: Norman Millar Jepson, £l. Passing stationary tram: Louis Rowley, £l. Failure to stop when requested: Harold Heury Wood, £l. CIVIL BUSINESS Judgment for plaintiff by default was given by Mr. W. G. Riddell, S.M., in the following undefended civil cases: — Jenkins and Mack, Ltd., v. Emerson and Smith, £24 3s. lid., costs £4 Is. 6d.; Wellington City Council v. Ernest W. A. Sergent, £6 16s. 7d., costs £1 15s. 6d.; E. J. Isaacs v. A. Marks, £8 155.; A.B.C. Motors (N.Z.), Ltd., v. P. S. Harrison, £l2 ss. 3d., costs £2 145.; Vacuum Oil Co. Ptd., Ltd., v. A. Jensen, £29 Is. 6d., costs £4 Is. 6d.; Gilbert Ure Warren .v. Charles James Corkill, £57 2s. 3d., costs £4 165.; Public Trustee v. A. Bolden, £3l 16s. 6d., costs £4 10s.’ 6d.; Sims Hardware Co., Ltd., v. L. W. Grace, £6 3s. 2d., costs £1 Ils. 6d.; Graham and. Co. v. L. W. H. Grace, £27, costs £4 Is. 6d.; George and Doughty, Ltd., v. E. L. Binning, £lO 125., costs £3 95.; Griffin, Savage and Co., Ltd., v. A. V. Simmons, £ll 2s. 10d., costs £3 95.; L. J. Purdie and Co., Ltd., v. W. Corquadalo, £2 2s. 6d., costs £1 3s. 6d.; British Textiles, Ltd., v. E. A. de Luen, £5B 35., costs £4 15s. 6d.; Thompson Brothers, Ltd., v. E. M. Gibson, costs only, 10s.; Nestle and Anglo Swiss Condensed Milk Co.' (Australasia), Ltd., v. E. A. .Blows, £3 2s. 6d„ costs £1 11s. 6d.; F. Gill v. Allan Cadman, £4 ss. 6d., costs £1 4s. 6d.; A.B.C. Motors (N.Z.), Ltd., v. G. W. Armstrong, £1 7s. 6d., costs Bs.; Laery and Co., Ltd., v. P. R. Kent, £5O 4s. Bd.. costs £4 Ils. Gd.; Minimax, Ltd., v. F. B. Shaw, £5 155., costs £1 10s. 6d.; trustees estate John Norton v. Thomas Findlay and Son, Ltd., £79 Is. 10d., costs £4 19s. 6d.; United States Rubber Co. (Australia), Ltd., v. Roxburgh Motor Co., costs only, £1 Bs.; Midlane Brothers (N.Z.), Ltd., v. H. McGregor, £l3 16s. Gd.. costs £2 165.; William Beveridge v. L. W. Grace, £lO 10s„ costs £2 175.; E. T. Taylor and CoLtd., v. H. 0. Barnett, £7l 75., costs £4 15s. 6d.; A. R. Christian, Ltd., v. Neil Thompson, £3 7s. 4d., costs £1 3s. 6d.; A. and T. Burt. Ltd., v. Premier Garage, £1 75., costs Bs.; same v. Mrs. A. V. Craigie. 65., costs 10s.; J. W. Murphy v. E. Watkins, £5, costs £1 Bs. 6d.; Ballin Brothers v. H. Futter, £2 55., costs £1 4s. 6d. ,~S. S. Williams and Co., Ltd., v. -E. Williams, £1 35.’6d., costs 10s.; T.. H. Oates v. J. Chek, 6s. 6d., costs 95.; John Swinson and Co., Ltd., v. Beggs and Ward. £3O 65., costs £4 Bs. Gd.; trustee Grand Lodge, U.A.0.D., v. Ernest William Gregory Harris, £79 13s. 7d., costs £5: trustees Grand Lodge, U.A.0.D., v. Robert John Simpson, £35 18s. Gd., costs £4 15s. Gd.; British Imperial Oil Co., (N.Z.), Ltd., v. Northern Wairoa Shipping Co., £l9 os. Id.l costs £2 175.; E. C. Hotter v. S. B. McDonald, £9, costs £1 10s. 6d. ; Combined Woollens, Ltd. (in liquidation), v. A. R. Raynor, £l7 16s. 9d„ costs £2 145.; Ford Sales and Service, Ltd., v. Rushworth and Wilkes, £3B 7s. 8d„ costs £4 4s. 6d.; Bannatyne and Hunter, Ltd., v. A. Metcalfe, £2 19s. 7d., costs £1 Bs. 6d.

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