MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 15, 12 October 1927, Page 9

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

POLICE, BY-LAW, AND CIVIL CASES Mr, J. H. Salmon, S.M., dealt with police cases in the Magistrate's Court yesterday. John Anthony Crawford, a canvasser, aged 39, who appeared on three charges of theft by failing to account for sums totalling «E 3 os. 6d., which amount he had collected on the understanding it was to be paid to Harry Farthing, was sentenced to one month's imprisonment on each charge, the terms to be. concurrent. Accused had been previously convicted. A remand for one week was granted in the case of Fobert William Smith, a labourer, aged 38, who admitted stealing a rug, valued at £1 10s. Accused •was convicted and discharged for drunkenness. A similar remand for sentence w flS agreed to in the case of Harold Wellington, a labourer, aged 20, who appeared before Mr. W. G. I’iddell, 8.M., charged with stealing <£l4, the property of Henry Elderton. Sub-Inspector Harvey stated that the money had been stolen from a boardinghouse in Otaki by accused, who was at present on probation. BY-LAW CASES Messrs. E. Wylie and A. Longmore, J.P.’s, dealt with by-law cases. Speeding cost Kennedy Lloyd Brown £2; Alexander Patterson, Maurice Robertson, and Francis Bernard Rowley, £1 10s. each; and Ernest Duncan and John Guy Marshall £1 each. For speeding across an intersection, Duncan was fined an extra £l, while for like offences Marshall, Patterson, Rowley, and Robertson wore each convicted and discharged. Helen Teresa Blake, George Alexander Brown, Gilbert Bruce, George Bruce Chiistie, Leonard James Evans, James David Martin Foreman, Alfred Thomas Kelly, and Charles Norman Smith were each fined XI for having no lights. John Shelley was fined half that amount for a like offence. John J. Ewing was fined £3 for dangerous driving. Clarence Joslin was fined £1 for having his number plates obscured. A similar penalty was imposed on Thomas H. Oates for permitting the use of a motor-cycle without endorsed certificates. L. E. Eglington was fined 10s. for leaving his car unattended, while Thomas Goodwin, who left.his motor-lorry more than twelve inches from the kerb, was fined half that amount. Cutting a corner resulted in Edward H. Mcßae and Herbert John Lawton being fined XI each. A like action cost Louise Reed 10s. Robert Cochrane was fined £2 on each of two charges of having used an unlicensed car. John Edward Fitzgerald <as fined half that amount on each of two charges, while Colin Hammond and Robert Clance Little were each fined £2 for one similar offence. CIVIL BUSINESS Judgment for plaintiff by default was given in the following undefended civil cases by Mr. W. G. Riddell, S.M.: —- British Imperial Oil Co. (N.Z.), Ltd., v. F. W. Burling, £32 13s. 10d., costs £4 Is. 6d.; Dominion Mercantile Agency Ltd. and Vacuum Oil Co. Pty-., Ltd., v. U. J. Shiel, £59 IL 9d., costs £i Ils. 6d.; George and George v. M. Baker, X 37 19s. 10d., costs £4 Is. 6d.; Radford and Co., Ltd., v. H. G. Young, £2 2s. lid., costs XI Bs. 6d.; Ellis and Manton, Ltd., v. B. Fitzgerald, X 25 4s 7d., costs £4 4s. Gd.; Thomas Hull v. N. Lypus (separate estate), £5 17s. Gd., costs 18s.; Dominion Mercantile Agency, Ltd., and G. T. Browne v. M. Russell (separate estate), £24 Is. 6d„ costs £4 3s. 6d.; H. J. Ashworth v. F. Sutherland (separate estate), £6 ss. Bd., costs £1 Ils. Gd.; Mary Ann White v. Louie Mawson (separate estate), £9 95., costs £1 15s. Gd.; H. Symons v. Norman Campbell, £l5, I costs £3 6s. 6d.; Hope Gibbons, Ltd., v. A. G. Sutton, £26 12s. 2d., costs £1 Ils.; N.Z. Meat Packing and Bacon Co. (Co-op.), Ltd. (in liquidation), v. T. Evison, £4 13s. 6d., costs £1 Ils. 6d.; same v. Fred Holmes, £3 17s. 5d., costs £1 ss. 6d.; same v. Montague Bros., £1 Bs. 2d., costs 135.; Violet Ibbett, by her next friend, Pauline Ibbett, v. John Scott Roy, £l3, costs £3;_ State Advances Superintendent v. Kathleen Bailey, £43 13s. lid., costs £1 125.; W. T. Johnson Und Co., Ltd., v. Fitzpatrick Motors, Ltd., £3 os. Sd., costs £1 3s. 6d.; Walter Smart v. George Barkley Huxford, £52 4s. 6d., costs £4 16s. 6d.; J. J. Quinn v. G. B. Gardiner, £2 25., costs £1 3s. 6d.; H. H. Price v. A. K. Bartlett, £1 17s. Gd., costs 10s.; Dominion Mercantile Agency, Ltd., and Munt, Cottrell and Co., Ltd., v. E. Shaw, £1 10s., costs Bs.; Dominion Mercantile Agency, Ltd., and W. R. Twigg, Ltd., v. H. N. Tullock, £2O Is. 6d., costs £4 Is. 6d.; Ashford Bros., v. C. C. Smith, £6, costs £1 14s. 6d.; J. L. Fleming and Co. v. J. Smith, ss. Gd., costs 125.; Plumbers, Ltd., v. S. R. Sherwood, £76 16s. lid., costs £5 65.; E. Somerville v. C. E. Femmol, £l, costs Bs.; Edward Young v. L. Lewis, £4O 17s. 4d., costs £4 Ils. 6d.; E. Johnston and Co. v. H. Cor left, £6O, costs £4 12s. 6d.; 11. Baldwin and Co., Ltd., v. Thomas Dick, £46 6s. 6d., costs £3 11s.; Tonks and Andrews v. J. Clegg, £32 55., costs £4 2s. 6d.; British' Imperial Oil Co. (N.Z.), Ltd., v. R. Steel, £6, costs £1 16s. Gd.; same v. W. Nicol, £95 Is. 2d., costs £5 14s. Gd.; same v. F, W. Scott, £1 19s. 4d., costs Bs.; Smith and Smith, Ltd., v. E. Gibson, 17s. Bd., costs Bs.; Australasian Films (N.Z.), Ltd., v. C. Pomeroy, £6 14s. Bd., costs £1 Ils. 6d.; Butterworth and Co., Ltd., v. P. L. C. Inder, £lB, costs £2 145.; Robert P. Moore v. J. Allen, £l3 165., costs £2 145.; J. P. Hennessy v. Archibald Donald McLiver Roy, £4 45., costs £1 35., Gd.; Reginald Collins, Ltd., v. J. H. Parfitt, £4 3s. 3d., costs £1 3s. Gd.; same v. C. Lonsdale, £3 155., costs £1 ss. Gd.; same v. E. H. Gilberd. £3 15s„ costs £1 3s. Gd.; George and George v. E. J. Trewthie, £4 19s. 6d., costs £1 4s. 6<1.; John Duthie and Co., Ltd., v. E. Kelly, £l3 3s. 6d., costs £1 35.; Skedden and Beveridge v. C. Johns (separate estate), £1 10s., costs Bs.; O. T. Evans v. Gaston D'O, £27, costs £4 Is. 6d.; Hope Gibbons, Ltd., v. H. B. Peterson. £3 17s. Id., costs Ss.; llopo Gibbons, Ltd., v. G. R. Stuart. £7 4s. 6d., costs 155.; Saint Crispin Shoe Co. v. C. D. Fairweather. ,£B9 Ils. 9d., costs £4 4s. 9d.; William Hillock v. John Prouse, £126, costs £7 155.; National Mutual Life Assn, of Australasia, Ltd., v. Oliver Richard Prouse, £l3B 2s. 6d„ costs £6 195.; Hilda Jane Major v. T. E. Whitlock, £23 12s. Gd., costs £4 125.; J. W. Batten v. V. L. Carmody, £4 10s., costs £1 4s. 6d.; Warnes and Stephenson, Ltd., v. Mrs. E. Handley (separate estate), £2 55., costs £1 4s. 6<1.; C. J. Jones v. Arthur Hall, £3 ss. 9d., costs £1 4s. Gd.; Aland Alary Constable v. Allan Cnrlvlo, £l2 10s., costs £2 145.; H. L. AlcAfillan v. Lawrence Brown, £l5, costs £2 145.; James Owen v. Lawrence Brown, £45, costs £4 Is. Cd. The largest collection firm in New Zealand is the Dominion Mercantile Agencv. Ltd., of Wellington. Auckland and Christchurch, with agents in every New Zealand town and associate offices throughout the world.—Advt.