MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 74, 20 December 1929, Page 15

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

BY-LAW AND CIVIL CASES

Offenders against the by-laws were dealt with by Mr. T. B. McNeil, S.M, in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday. John Paterson was fined £2 for speeding, and Frank Andesron, James F. Lilley, and Spencer Izett, £1 each for a like offence.

For travelling the wrong way in a oneway street William Withers was fined £l. Thomas Spain was fined £1 for having’ an obschred number plate. Ho was also fined 10/- for having no reflector. Edward R. Hawkey and Charles Barnett were fined £1 each for having no lights, an offence which cost Alfred Carmichael 10/-. Philip L. Daske was fined £1 for having no horn. William J. Wright was fined £1 for plying for hire on an unauthorised stand. CIVIL CASES Judgment by default in favour of plaintiff was given by Mr. T. B. McNeil, S.M, in the following undefended civil cases:— Peerless Sales Co. and American Fono Co, Ltd. (in liquidation) v. Newton Mitchell,’ £7B/5/6, costs £5/8/2; Ford Sales and Service, Ltd. v. R. Gay, £1 7/10, costs 19/-; Wellington Hospital Board v. Ernest French, la/6, costs 11/-; Arthur Avery v. Roy Nees, £3/10/6, costs £l/7/6; Commercial Agency, Ltd. and T. Johnston v. Fred James Barry, £l/1/-, costs 8/-; Commercial Agency, Ltd. and Wairarapa Farmers’ Co-op. Association, Ltd. v. P„ Edwards, £22/10/1, costs £4 1/0; Alexander Hamilton Institute of Australia, Ltd. v. H. G. Shouler, £l6, costs £2/19/-; Commercial Agency, Ltd. v. E. M. Holt, £7/11/1, costs £2/0/6; Commercial Agency, Ltd. and Jenkins and Son v. F. Barnett, £9/12/3, costs £l/10/6; Commercial Agency, Ltd. and Jenkins and Son v. L. Collings, £lO/8/11, costs £2/14/-; Commercial Agency, Ltd. and Fuller Brush Co. v. Frederick Clubb and Winifred Clubb (separate estate), £2/4/7,’ costs £l/8/6; Commercial Agency, Ltd. and J. Johnston v. A. P. Dorrian, £B/15/-, costs £l/10/6; Commercial Agency, Ltd. and J. Johnston v. George Frederick Henderson, £3, costs £l/3/6; Commercial Agency, Ltd. and Hope Bros., Ltd. v. G. Luff, £3/7/6, costs £l/4/6; Commercial Agency, Ltd. and L. T. Watkins, Ltd. v. H. W. Macready, £27, costs £4/3/6; Commercial Agency, Ltd. and J. 0. Riddell and Co., Ltd. v. J. A. Duley, £4/11/9,' costs £l/4/6; Towsend and Paul, Ltd. v. Wholesale Fruit Co., £l7/10/-, costs £2/14/-; Townsend and Paul, Ltd. v. A. R. Willis, £3/2/11, costs £l/4/6; Van Staveren Bros., Ltd. v. J. E. Ashworth, 18/6, costs 12/-; Van Staveren Bros., Ltd. v. F. Vincent, £2/0/2, costs £l/3/6; Osmond and Son (N.Z.), Ltd. v. H. S. Peake, £3/2/6, costs 12/-; Osmond and Son (N.Z.), Ltd. v. J. A. Ormsby, £3 12/-, costs 8/-; Osmond and Son (N.Z.), Ltd. v. E. W. J. Mortensen, £9/14/-, costs 19/-; Osmond and Son (N.Z.), Ltd. v. A. Howard, £5/3/-, costs 17/-; Couchman Cycle Co., Ltd. v. L. M. McCarthy, £9/15/-, costs 15/-; C. J. Smith v. F. Edwards, £2/10/-, costs £l/4/6; C. J. Smith v. A. O’Brien, £5/16/-, costs £l/13/6; Couchman Cycle Co., Ltd. v. S. L. Cooke, £B/12/6, costs £l/11/6; Aulsebrook and Co., Ltd. v. M. Munro and Mrs. M. Munro (separate estate), 18/-, costs £l/4/7. ' On judgment summonses Douglas Wilkins was ordered to pay F. H. Gruar £7/13/- at the rate of £1 a month, in default eight days’ imprisonment; A. Hall to pay T. F. Eves £6/0/9 forthwith, in default six days’ imprisonment; C. M. Barnett to pay Dodge Bros., Ltd. £3B 16/6 at the rate of £2 a month; Valentine C. Blake to pay Scott and Mellish £2O/0/8 at the rate' of £1 a month, in default twenty days’ imprisonment; N. McGavin to pay Al. Heimann £7/14/forthwith, in default seven days’ imprisonment; Joseph Jervis to pay Joseph Jackson £23/19/- forthwith, in default twentyfour days’ imprisonment; Thomas O’Dowd to pay D. O. McCutcheon £2O/1/9 at the rate of £1 a month, in default twenty days’ imprisonment; M. Stratford to pay Standard Insurance Co., Ltd. £6/19/6 forthwith, in default seven days’ imprisonment; George John Plimmer to pay B. M. Raymond £l3/18/- forthwith, in default fourteen days’ imprisonment; N. Woods to pay D. Lewis and Co. £4/0/11 at the rate of 10/- a month, in default four days’ imprisonment; J. Black to pay A. Whittaker £l9/7/- at the rate of £4 a month, in default twenty days’ imprisonment; W. Anderson to pay G. McMillan and Co., Ltd. £79/10/3 by January 1, in default two months’ imprisonment; A. T. Ngata to pay G. McQuillan £9/10/6 forthwith, in default ten days’ imprisonment: W. H. Moran to pay Don Trading Co., Ltd. (in liquidation) £l2/7/6 forthwith, in default twelve days’ imprisonment; H. W. Jones to pay Murphy and Stewart £5/1/- forthwith, in default five days’ imprisonment; Allan Erskine to pay Wellington Gas Co., Ltd. £9/6/6 at the rate of £l/10/- a month, in default nine days’ imprisonment; H. Lqjvson to pay P. R. Munro, Ltd. £6/3/4 forthwith, in default six days’ imprisonment; A. Lund to pay C. W. Henry £4/16/3 forthwith, in default five days’ imprisonment; A. Adams, sen. to pay A. S. Fagg £B/16/9 at the rate of 5/- a week; W. Kenyon to pay A. G. Whitelaw and. Co. £l/8/- forthwith, in default two days’ imprisonment; R. Usmar to pay C. Johns £lO/2/6 at the rate of £2 a month, in default ten days’ imprisonment. 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.