CIVIL CASES

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 136, 5 December 1912, Page 8

CIVIL CASES

Judgment for plaintiff by default was given by Dr. M'Arthur in the following undefended cases heard at the Magistrate's Court to-day t — The London Times v. G. G. Farland. £2 15s 6d, costs 12s ; H. C. Gibbons and Co., Ltd., v. James Adams, 17s 4d. costs 9s; same v. E. Greenwood, £2 2s 6d, costs 10s ; W. H, Tisdall, Ltd., v. A. K. Boyd, £1 Is sd, costs 7s; H. G. Mayer v. Norman Frank and Co., £3 17s 6d, costs 10s ; John Norton v. W. E. Isherwood, £4 3s, costs 10s; Magnus Sanderson and Co., Ltd., v. James Shackelton and Son, £5 17s 6d, costs 8s ; same v. William Sheridan, £14 Is 7d, costs 15s ; same v. Neils P. Nielsen, £2 Is lOd, costs 13s; P. Hayman and Co. v. Norman Frank and Co., £16 4s Id, costs £1 10s 6d ; Inglis Bros. ■ v. George Fernandos, £2 2s 4d, costs lls ; Edward Collie v. Edgar H. Claridge,'£6 15s, costs £1 3s 6d. JUDGMENT SUMMONS. James Wheelan was ordered to pay Rains and Churchill £4 10s at the rate of 5s per month.

Leather is to be dearer so the New Zealand Tanners' Association has determined. "Of course it will meant a rise in the price of boots," said a gentleman in authority when spoken to by a Post reporter. Just how much the increase will be cannot at present be stated, but Id per lb rise in leather is a big advance. 'Practically all boots of New Zealand manufacture will be affected. Importations of leather— sole leather principally—are not so much used in manufacture as in repair work. The cause of the rise is the competition of other countries in the leather market. "Canada and tho United States snap up all our good leather that they can lay hands on. The only w*iy to fix the matter is with an export duty on hides." "That would raise a storm," remarked the reporter. "Yes," was the rejoinder, but it's what the people interested in boots are aiming at." Mr. Brown, Government Poultry Expert, is delivering a series of addresses in the Wairarapa this week, under the auspices of the Farmers' Union. Mr. E. A. King, who has been headmaster of the Kaiwaiwai School for come years past, is leaving the district shortly to take up the position of headmaster of the Annet School, Jiear Springfield, North Cariterbury. Mr. and Mtb. King have established themselves in popular favour in the Kaiwaiwai district, and their departure will occasion much' regret. Mr, A. A. Paape, general Becretary of the New Zealand SpoTts Protection League, paid a to Featherston yesterday, and made preliminary arrangenipnts in connection with taking steps to form a branch here. To-ittorrow a bazaar id aid of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals will be opened in St. James's HalJ, Lower Hutt.