MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 71, 25 March 1915, Page 8

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

At the Magistrate's Court to-day, William Quee appeared to answer three charges of theft of boots from the shop of Arthur Edward Mann. He pleaded guilty. Witnesses testified to the excellent character previously held by .Quee, and his lapse was attributed by the police to drink. NeVtrtheless, it seemed that the thefts were carefully planned. Accused paid three separate visit* to the shop, and each time took particular care not to sound the alarm bell at the entrance. Mr. D. G. A. Cooper, S.M.. who was on the Bench, imposed fines totalling £6, with the alternative of three weeks in gaol. An order was also made for the refunding of £2 7s 6d, and the payment of 16s witnesses' expenses. For deserting from the liner Corinthic, Barry Foley was sentenced to a month's imprisonment. David Finister was convicted of indecency in Dixon-street last night, and fined 20s, in default three days' in custody. ' • i On a charge of drunkenness, Dorothy Aubrey was fined 10s> in default fortyeight hours in gaol, nnd two first offenders were connoted and discharged. At yesterday's sitting of the Petone Magistrate's Court, before Mr. D. G. A. Cooper, S.M., judgment was given for plaintiff by default in the following civil cases :— G. > LeaVey v. George Nuglar, £2 Bs. coste ss; same v. A. Faulkner, £1 19s lOd, costs ss ; G. Lambert v. Henry Fiford, £9 2s, costs % 24s 6d; G. G. Martin v. J. Green, £4 10s 9d, costs 11s. Two judgment summons cases were decided as under :— George Nuglar was ordered to pay'H. C. Luff the sum of £6 19s by weekly instalments of 2s 6d, in default to undergo six days 1 imprison* ment ; William' Cunningham to pay John Cotton £11 in weekly instalments of ss, ih default ten days in gaol. The prospects of reciprocal trade between Japan and New Zealand were referred to to-day by Mr. M. Tsuehiya,, a Japanese newspaper representative, in the course of a conversation with a Post reporter. Mr. Tsuchiya stated that, according to the New Zealand Year Book, Japan last year sent goods to the value of £150,000 to tlu's country, comprised chiefly of silks, superphosphates, fancy goods, and basket Svork. He thought a much larger trade than this could be developed, as the amount worked out at the rate of only 2s per head of the population of New Zealand; There was no reason, he contended, why trade should not be in the same proportion as that with Australia, which last year purchased £1,000,000 worth of Japanese goods, an average of 5s per head. As far a« New Zealand exports to Japan were concerned, these were practically not worth speaking of, as they only comprised a httle greasy wool, Westport coal (for the navy), and butter. He wa« convined that if the Japanese woollen mills maintained their present improved output, there was a. good prospect of Japan importing large quantities of wool from New Zealand

♦' — < — > THE EVENING POST LIST. ; £ 8. A. 'Already acknowledged ... 1224 7 9 I Employees J. Keir (weekly ; instalment) ... 015 6 jH.S.P. (2nd instalment) ... 10 0 - Section Samoan Relief Force '. (pet proprietors Maidstone ; Park) ... 016 0 Total to date ' £1226 19 3