MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 297, 14 September 1927, Page 9

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

■ POLICE AND CIVIL CASES Mr. E. Page. S.M., dealt with police cases in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday. For a second offence of drunkenness Beatrice Higgins, a domestic, aged 35, who had been in gaol for a week recovering from the effects of liquor, was convicted and discharged. James William bpicer, an agent, aged 40, was fined 10s., in default forty-eight liours’ imprisonment, for a like offence. A remand until September 20 was granted in the case of William Alexander Morris, aged 52, who was charged with assaulting Helen Morris. Accused was granted bail in his own surety of £2O. Edward Johnson, a seaman, aged 33, and Sidney Adams, a ship's cook, aged 34, were remanded until September 21 on a charge of breaking and entering the shop oj Richard Sadler, at 80 Vivian Street, and stealing tobacco and other goods to the tptal value of £7O. Both accused (for whom Mr. E. Leicester appeared) were granted bail in the sum. of £3OO each, .with one surety of a like amount. CIVIL BUSINESS

Judgment by default in favour of plaintiff was given by 31 r. W. G. Riddell, S.M., in the following undefended civil cases:— Dominion Mercantile .Agency, Ltd., and Osmond and Son (N.Z.), Ltd., v. J. Whitton, 10s, costa £1 75.; Warnes and Stephenson, Ltd., v. W. P. Casey, £2B 3s. 7d., costs £4 2s. 6d.; b. A. Blathorwick v. Al. Hamilton (separate estate), £4 Bs. 6d„ costs £1 4s. 6d.; Australasian Films (N.Z.), Ltd., v. L. Spinloy, £3B 3s. 7d., costs £4 2s. Gd.; Dominion Mercantile Agency, Ltd., and Hill and Jackson, Ltd., v. L. Pearce (separate estate), £7 18s„ costs £1 10s. Gd.; Magnus Motors, Ltd., v. L. P. Hagan, Jill Is., costs £2 155.; Commissioner of Taxes v. Charles Percival Cattell, £5 **’■’ costs 18s.i Commissioner of faxes v, Neil McLean, £3 Is. 3d., costs 10s.; Commissioner of Taxes v. V incent George Shepherd, £3 Ils. 4d., costs 155.; Commissioner of Taxes v. George Alexander Palmer. £2 3s. 6d., costs Bs.; David McCrae .Ltd., v. B. G V. Garrett, £33 2s 9d.i costs £4 Is. 6d.; Geo. W. Wilton and Co., Ltd., v. J. Robinson, £1 195., costs Bs.; A. Lawrie and Sons v. b. B. McDonald. £2, costs XI 4s 6d.; Dominion Mercantile Agency, Ltd., and i. J. Pinny, Ltd., v. J. H. Dodd, £l4 9s. Gd., costs £2 155. ; Dominion Mercantile Agency, Ltd., and AV. Vickery v. H. Judd, £6, costs £1 Ils. 6d.; Dominion Mercantile Agency, Ltd., and James Smith, Ltd., v. W. H. Lambert, XI 15s„ costs Bs.; Dominion Mercantile Agency, Ltd., and R. and E. Tingey and Co., Ltd., v. AV. McEwan, £49 9s. 3d., costs £4 6s. Gd.; Dominion Mercantile Agency, Ltd., and J. Towersay v. 11. O.’Neal, £l7 3s. lid., costs £2 145.; Dominion Mercantile A_gency, Ltd., and J. Towersey v. JRaisen, <£s 13s. 9d., costs «£1 les. Gd.; Mercantile and General Insurance Co.. Ltd., v. H. F. Browne, £1 Is. 7d,, costs 95.; Mercantile and General Insurance Co., Ltd., v. 11. C. E. Empson, £2 Ils., costs £1 3s. Gd.; Mercantile and General Insurance Co., Ltd., v. E. G. Gandell, £1 13s. 4d„ costs Bs.; Mercantile and General Insurance Co., Ltd., v. H. W. Mcßeady, £4 9s. lid., costs XI 4s. Gd.; ’ British Imperial Oil Co. (N.Z.), Ltd., v. B. Anderson, £l2 6s. Id., costs £3 25.; Knapp Milking Machine Co. v. Duncan and Snee, and the Eclipse Dairy Co., Ltd., £2B 3s. lid., costs £4 16s. Gd.; D. P. Fisher, Ltd., v. H. N. Tulloch, £9 14s. 4d., costs £1 10s. Gd.; Farmers’ Co-operative Wholesale Federation (N.Z.), Ltd., v. T. A. Wrigley, £3O, costs £4 Is. Gd.; John Duf.hie and Co., Ltd., v. E. Brady, £3 13s. 4d., costs Bs.; Dorothy Levin v. J. H. Taylor, £l5 17s. 6d„ costs £2 145.; A. Hatrick and Co., Ltd., v. J. Bruce, £l6 15s. 2d., costs £2 155.; Mfignus Motors, Ltd., v. John Slathers, £l3 Bs., costs £2 145.; Vaji Bros., Ltd., v. C. O. Wolland, £5 17s. 9d., costs IBs.; 11. R. Vile v. W. Miller, £lB 3s. Id., costs £2 175.; Universal Film Manufacturing Co (Australasia), Ltd., v. J. Gibbon, £2 Is. Gd., costs £1 3s. Gd.; Lawrence and Hanson Electrical Co., Ltd., v. C. J. Allen, £26 19s. lid., costs' £4 Is. 6d.; Lawrence and Hanson Electrical Co., Ltd., v. H. T. Salter and Co., £69 7s. Bd., costs £4 155.; C. and A. Odlin Timber and Hardware Co., Ltd., v. G. Griffiths, £4 15s. 10d., costs £1 7s, Gd.; George A. Bond and C.b, Ltd., V. A. I’. Warring, £5 4s. 10d., costs £1 10s. 6d.; C. and A. Odlin Timber and Hardware Co., Ltd., v. S. McLeod, £l7 17s. 9d., costs £2 145.; New Zealand; Meat Packing and Bacon Co. (Co-op.), Ltd. (inliquidation) v. J. Clark, .£4 Bs. lid., costs £1 Us. Gd.; New Zealand Meat Packing and Bacon Co. (Coop.), Ltd. (in liquidation) v. William Thomas Gleeson, £3 19s. 10d., costs . £1 9s. 6d.; N.Z. Meat Packing and Bacon Co. (Co-op.), Ltd. (in liquidation), v. Henry Child Lock, £4 13s. 6d., costs £1 14s. Gd.; N.Z. Aleut Packing and Bacon Co. (Co-op.), Ltd. (in liquidation), v. Kasper Meier, £6 125., costs £1 'Bs. Gd.; N.Z. Meat Packing and Bacon Co. (Coop.), Ltd. (in liquidation), v. Ernest Joseph Penwarden, jun., £7 9s. 9d., •costs £1 16s. Gd.; Bin ion and Meltzer v. Thomas John Liddell, £lB 12s. Gd., costs Ils.; Gibsons and Paterson, Ltd., v. -Airs. E. M. Caiiierpn, £22 9s. 10d., costs £1 10s.; E- Reynolds and Co., Ltd., v. AV. C, Stevens, £24 2s. 4d., costs £4 is. Gd.; British Imperial Oil Co. (N.Z.), v. AV. H. Muir, £27 25., costs £4 10s. G<l.; J. Holt, Ltd., v. A. Mackechnie, £67 Bs., costs £4 13s. Bd.; Commissioner of Taxes v. Thomas Francis McNamara, £G 2s. Gd.. costs 175.; Commissionci - of Taxes'v. John Hoggard. £3 Is. 3d., costs Bs.; T. O’Brien v. M. Cameron (separate estate), £23. costs £4 Is. Gd.; N.Z. Meat Packing and Bacon Co. (Co-op.), Ltd. (in liquidation) v. Peter Ran, £4 13s. Gd., costs £1 13s. Gd.; N.Z. Meat Packing arid Bacon Co. (Co-op.), Ltd. (in liquidation), v. Charles Shaw. inn.. £5 19s. Id., costs £2 Is. Gd.; British Imperial Oil Co. (N.Z.), Ltd., v. McHugh and Mclntosh, £l3 17s. 4d.. costs £2 14s.

The largest collection firm in New Zealand is the Dominion Mercantile Agency. Ltd., of Wellington, Auckland, and Christchurch, with agents in every New Zealand town and associate offices throughout the world.—Advt.