MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 54, 27 November 1929, Page 16

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

POLICE, BY-LAW, AND CIVIL CASES■ 'Mr. E. Page, 5.M.,-dealt Kith police cases in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday. ClifCoiul James Thomas was fined fl for haring no driver’s license. 'Bruce Burns, aged 17, and Phyllis Marjorie Thom, aged 19, were each placed on probation for two years on a charge of stealing a diamond ring, valued at £37, the property of Victor Brownson. The Magistrate made an order that the pair keep apart from each other during that time, and that the girl go and reside with her parents in Auckland. BY-LAW CASES CMJfnders against the by-laws were dealt with by Mr. T. B. McNeil. S.M. John Mudgway was fined £1 for having no driver’s license. Sidney 11. Rossiter, Leo. T. Dwau, George Phillips, aud Arthur M. Saxon were each fined 10/- for leaving their cars unattended. Joint M. Carroll for a like offence was fined 5/-. George Phillips was fined £1 for parking within six feet of a fire plug. . Melton Ingle, George Chadwick, Shirley Percy, and George A. Smart were lined 10/-‘each for having defective rear lights. Oswald James and William Edymore were each fined 5/- on like charges, while Benjamin Kuch was. fined 5/- on each of two similar informations. Albert W. Bee, Walter H. Hughes. Russell J. Calvert, Albert W. Lee. and David Williamson were each fined JU/for having no rear lights, hrancis -L. Barnett was fined 5/- on a like charge. Joseph C. Stewart was fined fl for negligent driving. On a like charge M 11lia’m I. Turnbull was convicted and ordered to pay 10/-costs. . Reginald Black and David Say’S 6 were each fined 10/- for riding their bicycles on the Kilbirnie Begerve. D. Tucker was fined ±1 for failing to keep to the left. CIVIL BUSINESS A. Tombs, 11/-, , cosl ". VfiiL- Co (Aus-An-10-Swlss Condensed Milk V’-pl/J/, end AV. Phillips and Son v. • aiorgau, £l4/4/6. costs £2/l(>/-:_Mayer and Kean y ; T T 1 Mclvor, £IS/lu/-, costs £-/16/ , General Mercantile and Traders ?S;k U “yi/ a 'XG-ieyaY d Me^anino oand 0 and Traders’ Agency and llMvomn and Co I. td v. H. Sweeney, £lO. costs «1/1 o/v. General Mercantile and Traders Agency mid A S Paterson and Co., £td., y i,. «>. Wood.' £6/1/-, costs £l/16/6; General Mercantile and Traders Ascncy and Shell Cn of N Z.. Ltd., v. lan McKay. 9/3, costs 9/-- General Mercantile and Traders Agency 'and Shell Co. of N.Z., Ltd., v. L. J. Wood, £4, costs £l/9/6; General Mercantile and Traders’ Agency, and Co-op-erative Furniture Manufacturing Co., Ltd., v. R. Copeland, £lB/lu/o, costs £3/L,/-, N.Z Express Ci., Ltd., v. C. W. Reardon, £l/5/-, costs 8/-; W. H. Rush y. .7. Burns, £.|i/14?-, costs £4/2/6; Dominion Mercantile Agcncv, Ltd., and B. A. Gibson v. J. Emery. £l‘, costs 11/-; British. International Oil Co., Ltd., v. .T. B. O Sullivan, 4/2. costs 8/-: British International Oil Co., Ltd., v. W. Starnes, 10/6, costs 8/-; British International Oil Co., Ltd., y J. Bradley, £32/12/8. costs £4/3/6; British International Oil Co., Ltd., v. Coker and Co., £ll/11/-. costs £2/14/-: British International Oil Co., Ltd./v. E. G. 1 ocock, £lB/5/2. costs £2/16/-; British International OH Co., Ltd., v. IV. H. Cowley, £5/12/0. costs £l/12/6; British International Oil Co., Ltd., v. W. Cashmere, £2 8/3, costs £l/3/6; General Mercantile and Traders* Agency aud R. F. .Tollands and Co., Ltd., v. A. R. Elgar, 5/6, costs 3/-: Dominion Mercantile Agency, Ltd., and C. Evans v. 11. .Teffries, costs only. 10/-; General Mercantile and Traders’ Agency and Amalgamated Brieks and Pipe Co., y. Langridge and McNabb, £lB, • costs £2 17/-: Hannah Minahan v. Raymond a'Courfe. £4, costs' £l/6/6; Dominion Motors. Ltd., v. C. Ackroyd, £B/15/2,' costs £l/11/6; David McCrae. Ltd., v. M. T. Phillips and R. M. Phillips, £65/19/9, costs £4/12/6; Vance-Vivian v. .T. B. Bateman. £.l/10/-, costs 13/-; Turnbull and .Tones, Ltd., v. G. R. Hall. £22/18/10, costs £4/1/0; Dominion Mercantile Agency. Ltd., and Black and White Cabs. Ltd., v. .1. Lemmon, 12/6, costs 8/-; Dominion Mercantile Agency. Ltd., and Munt, Cottrell and Co.. Ltd., v. John B. Manttah, £7/10/-, costs £l/14/6; Dominion Mercantile Agency. Ltd., and South Pacific Mortgage and Deposit Co., Ltd., v. C. C. Phillips, £ll/7/4, costs £2/14/-; Dominion Mercantile Agency. Ltd., and Sanford (Wellington), Ltd., (in voluntary liquiticn), v. A. Sergeant, £6/3/-, costs £1 11/0: Charles James Stanton Harcourt and Martin Maxwell Fleming Luckie v. H. G. Travers, £3/5/-, costs £l/3/6: Reginald Collins. Ltd., v. A. K. Seaton, £5/16/3, costs £l/10/6; Reginald Collins, Ltd., v. F. G. Warring, £6/16/-, costs £l/12/6: Reginald Collins, Ltd., v. R. W. Willing. £4/10/-. costs £l/5/0; National Cash Register Co. of Australasia. Ltd., v. Kiley and Marvell. £35, costs £-t/l/C>; National Cash Register Co. of Australasia, Ltd., v. Kiley and Marvell, £3l/5/-, costs £4/1/0: E. C. Browne and Co.. Ltd., v. F. C. Walker, . £3/14/6, costs £l/4/0; N.Z. Express Co.. Ltd., v. H. L. Davis. £l4/9/2. costs £2/14/-; General Mercantile and Traders’ Agency and Texas Co., Ltd., v. W. O. Brittendcn. £lB/12/6, costs £2/16/-: General Mercantile and Traders’ Agency and E. A. Algar v. E. Sargent. £4/11/7. costs £l/5/6; General Mercantile and Traders’ Agency and Vacuum Oil Co. (Pty.). Ltd., v. W. O. Brittendcn. £O6/8/7, costs £5/8/-; Greater Australasian Films. Ltd., v. T Martin, £2/10/-. costs 13/6: Dominion Mercantile Agency,. Ltd., and Atlantic I nion Oil Co.. Ltd., v. P. C. Peterson and Son. £lOO/10/5, costs £6/5/-. LOWER HUTT SITTING By-law and civil cases were heard before Messrs. G. A. Chapman and F. A. Feist, J.P.’s, in the Lower Hutt Court yesterday. Thomas Clendon and Sheila Milne, for riding unllghted bicycles, were lined 15/and 10/- respectively. Speeding cost T. ,T. Firth £1; A. S. T. Butler, £l/10/-; P. Brown, £2; Mrs. Teunent, £l. Riding bicycles on the footpath of the old Hutt bridge cost J. G. Mitchell, G. V. Thompson, .1. S. Edwards, J. Whitcher, F. G. Smith. R. A. Giddens, E. Ackroyd, S. Vollar, W. Burnskoy, W. Watson, L. Ansell, .1. Green, J. Haggart, C. Anderson, Charles Parkinson, and E. D. Smith. 5/apioce. For the same offence H. P. Savory and W. S. Wakelj- were ordered to pay court costs only. For failing to have adequate means of silencing on his motor-cycle, Patrick W. Flanagan was fined £l. S. IV. Bradley, who drove a motor-lorry exceeding two tons in weight over the Mailings bridge was fined £3. Mrs. M. Kirkland was fined 10/- for permitting part of her motor-vehicle to stand on the footpath in Laing’s Road. •T. A. Telfar was convicted and lined £1 for assaulting William Rogers by striking him. In addition, defendant was required to pay court, costs 10/-, witnesses' expenses £l/5/-, solicitor’s fee £l/1/-. CIVIL CASES. ‘ Judgment for plaintiffs by default was given in the following civil cases:—William Hainer and Frank Titus Lauric v. It. .Semple (junior). £l9/0/7: William Hamer and Frank Titus Lawrie v. F. 11. Knapp, 15/6; 11. .1. and E. Evans (trailing ns Evans Bros.) v. 11. S. James. £5/19/0; Rose Lowry v. G. Kerr, £2/8/6; Hutt Meat Co.. Ltd., v. E. Hohman. £3/11/10; Arthur Stanley Cooper v. J. Kerr, 3/2. The largest collection firm in New Zealand is the Dominion Mercantile Agency, Ltd., Wellington, Auckland, and Christchurch, with agents in every, New Zealand town, and associate offices throughout the world.—Advt.