MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 114, 7 February 1930, Page 9

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

BY-LAW AND CIVIL CASES Messrs. Edgar and Stone, J.P.’s, dealt •with offenders against the by-laws in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday. Lionel Burney, for parking more than 12 inches from the kerb, was fined £l. Failing to register his motor-lorry cost Frank Clark £l. Anthony T. Cooper was fined 5/- for turning his motor-car in Manners Street. William J. Marriet and Gifford Nicholls were each fined £1 for passing a stationary tramcar. John E. Miles wl,s fined £1 for failing to keep his sanitary fittings in reP Ernest W. Warren was fined 10- for having no driver’s license and 5/- for having no horn on his motor-cycle. Arthur Macspree was convicted and ordered to pay 10/- court costs on a charge of allowing his stock to wander. On a charge of keeping a dangerous dog Ernest G. Short was convicted and ordered to pay the Court costs on condition that he keeps his dog under proper control in the future. CIVIL LIST Judgment by default in favour of plaintiff was given by Mr. T. B. McNeil, S.M., in the following undefended civil cases:— Commercial Agency, Ltd. and W. J. Macdonald, v. A. C. Anderson, £l4/14/-, costs £2/1(1/-; J. C. Hutton (N.Z.), Ltd. v. J. Hill, £122/15/9, costs £6/11/4; Townsend and Paul, Ltd., V. A. Molander, £l/7/-, costs 15/-; Commercial Agency, Ltd. and Begg’s Case Store, v. C. Andrews, £6/18/1, costs £l/12/6; Commercial Agency, Ltd. and J. C. Milnes v. A. Gregory, £lO/14/9, costs £2/18/-; Commercial Agency, Ltd. and Excelsior Supply Co., Ltd. v. W. Haleock, £2/7/8, costs £l/7/6; Commercial Agency, Ltd. and C. R. Gibbs v. H. Harris, £3/8/-, costs £l/7/6; Commercial Agency, Ltd. and J. A. Osborne .v. E. S. Jones, £9/5/5, costs £l/14/8; Commercial Agency, Ltd. and J. E. Brailey v, F. McCormick-, £l/1/, costs 9/-; Wellington Hospital Board v. Albert Smith, £7/13/-, costs £l/12/6; Commercial Agency, Ltd., and Pacific Petrol and Service Station, v. A. Wallace, £l/13/9, costs 14/-; Truth (N.Z.), Ltd. v. G. J. Bennet and Sons, £1 0/6, costs 17/-; A. M. Forrest v. John Williams, £7/15/-, costs £l/14/6; F. J. Fear and Co. v. R. W. Mallashch, £2/8/-, costs £l/7/6; Townsend and Paul, Ltd. v. C. Nlcoll, £9/19/-, costs £l/10/6; Bannatyne and Hunter, Ltd. v. C. Tierney, £2/9/2, costs £l/7/6; Commercial Agency, Ltd. v. M. Craig (sep. est.), £l7/10/-, costs £2 14/-; Commercial Agency, ■ Ltd., and E. Hayes and Sons, v. G. W. Campbell, £2/0/5, costs £l/5/6; Commercial Agency, Ltd. and Stewart Hardware, Ltd. v. Edge and Soal, £2/7/8, costs £l/3/6; Commercial Agency, Ltd. and J. Johnston v. Bertram Evans, £2/2/6, costs £l/3/6; Commercial Agency, Ltd. and Excelsior Supply Co., Ltd. v. Gills, Ltd., £l/17/6, costs 8/-; Commercial Agency, Ltd. and J. Biss v. K. Graham, £3, costs £l/3/6; Commercial Agency, Ltd. and R. K. McDonnell v. B. Hounslow, £35/16/-, costs £4/3/6; Commercial Agency, Ltd. and J. Johnston, v. Alfred Lund. £B/10/-, costs £l/10/6; Commercial Agency Ltd., and J. Johnston v. J. W. Madden, £3/4/-, costs £l/3/6; Commercial Agency, Ltd. and Mrs. F. A. Browne v. Geoffrey Mears, £5/15/-, costs, £l/11/6; Commercial Agency, Ltd., and John Rigg and Co. Ltd., v. C. Nicholl, £2/9/-, costs £l/3/6; Commercial Agency Ltd. and John Chambers ond Son, Ltd. v. P. A. Peterson, £l6/5/6, costs £2/14/-; Commercial Agency, Ltd. and S. C. E. Benge and R. L. Reeve, £5/9/3, costs £1 11/6; Commercial Agency, Ltd., and National Electrical Engineering Co., Ltd. v. F. J. Steele, £l2/4/7, costs £2/14/-; Commercial Agency, Ltd. and Hamilton and McNeil, v. P. T. Stewart, 8/6, costs 9/-; Commercial Agency, Ltd. and J. Johnston v. Leslie E. Wright, costs only 13/-. On judgment summonses E. Snelgrove was ordered to pay Winifred Mary Holmes £7/11/6, at the rate of 10/- a week, In default 8 days’ imprisonment; F. Shaw to pay A. B. Sievwright £3/11/6 at the rate of 5/- a week, in default 4 days’ imprisonment; W. Hill to payA. Paltreyman £3B 5/6 at the rate of 10/- a week, in default 30 days’ Imprisonment; James White to pay J. P. Cagney £2/9/- forthwith. In default 3 days imprisonment; F. W. Moor to pay Nash (N.Z.), Motors, Ltd., £75/4/11; at the rate of £l/10/-. a month, in default 30 days Imprisonment; Henry W. Gardner to'pay W. R. Twigg. Ltd!, £4/14/- forthwith. in default 5 days imprisonment; J. Beck to pay Deputy Official Assignee £2 6/- forthwith, in default 2'days imprisonment; R. Godwin to pay Hallensteln Bros., Ltd., £2/3/- forthwith, in default 3 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.-AdvL