PETONE SITTING.

Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 69, 21 March 1918, Page 8

PETONE SITTING.

The monthly sitting of the Petone Magistrate's Court was. held to-day, before Messrs. R. W. Short and J. Wakeham, J.P.'s.

L. Jethro was convicted and ordered to pay 7s costs for attempting to board a train while in motion.

For failing to attend drill, D. B. Qutterduck was fined £5, or one month's military detention. The police said this was a very bad case, as the lad had been living, in the. district for four or five years and had never attended a parade. Henry Styles, for. failing tc enrol his child at a public school, was fined 10a, with 7s costs. William Jenkins, on a similar charge, was fined 5s and 7s costs.

For using motor omnibuses on which the heavy traffic licenses had not been paid, L. Cloake was fined £1. He was also ordered, to pay 5s a day for each day 'his vehicle remained unlicensed, with 17s 6d,costs for each vehicle. John Campbell, on a similar charge, was fined £3, and ordered to make payments similar 1 to Cloake's. ■ ,

■ The following owners of vehicles (who have now paid their license fees) were convicted and ordered to pay 17s 6d costs each:—C. Webster, W. Walling, and. Charles Cunningham.

E. Bowater, for whom Mr. J. C. ,Pea,' cock appeared, was prosecuted by the Petone Borough Council (Mr. E. C. Kirk) for .driving horses in the borough without the same being tinder propel control. The information was dismissed, and the defendant allowed £1 Is costs.

■Judgment by default for plaintiffe was given in the following undefended 1 civil cases:—H. Wiggins v. H. B. Pointon, £7 13s 6d and 23s 6d costs; Butt and Petone Chronicle v. G. E. Blake, Wellington, £9 and 23s 6d costs; Emma' Hyde v. J..H. "Wynyard, £1 11s and Ss costs; Petone Borough Council v H. T. Flyger, £18 7s 8d and 8s costs.

People have heard a great deal about the minor horrprs of war, such as fieas and other pestilent nuisances of the trenches. A learned professor ' has already written'a fascinating'book on the Eubject. Why. as the Challenge suggests, does not somsone write a book upon the minor blessings of the war? In such a, book a loading place would have to bo given to the development of allotments, which has provided for thousands of people of all classes a henlthy and profitable occupation, even in • the inner Xondon suburbs. ,

Messrs. Williams and Co., Ltd., will sell furniture, to-morrow at 2 p.m., in tho Auction Arcade, Gourtenay-place.