PETONE COURT

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 19, 24 January 1929, Page 4

PETONE COURT

Mr. T. B. M'Keil, S.M., presided at the ■monthly sitting of the i'etoue Magistrate's Court yesterday. John Brennan and Thomas Laivler, prohibited persons, were lined £3 and £1 respectively for enteriug licensed premises. William Mark MaJloy, Patrick Le Seur, and I'eter Fisher, who were found on licensed premises after hours, were fined £2 each.

Charles Waugh Seddou Lister -was fined 10s for having no driver's license, and 10s for riding at night without lights.

Failing to keep to the left cost Francis Claude Oakley £1.

Bertram George Goldfinch (iEr. G. Findlay) laid. a charge of assault against Charles John Cate (Mr. D. M. Dicksou). The complainant, aged 16, who belonged to the Petone Sea Scouts, alleged that oue night after young Cate had had gome words with the Scouts, Cate, senior, had come along smelling of liquor and looking for a fight. He had struck the complainant in the eye and wrestled with him. Gate's explanation was that several of the Scouts had molested his boy. When the defendant went along to the Scouts, Goldfinch had attempted to show fight before defendant struck him. The defendant bad had only one glass of beer that evening.... The Magistrate thought that Caje 1 had/undoubtedly committed au unjustifiable assault. Cate vas convicted and fined £1. ■ '

Thomas Tremayne, watchmaker, jeweller, and optician, applied for exemption from the observance of the closing hours fixed by the Shops and Offices Act. The application was refused.

_ judgment for plaintiff by default was given in tho following undefended civil cases: Petone Borough Council v. J. A. Hunter, £11 13s- (id; Petone Borough Council v. H. Dickinson, £7 7s Gd; Mrs. C. M. Andrews v. 11. Clappertou, £11 16s 4d; :E. E. Lacey v. Graham and Bon, £21 3s; Bonthorne arid Corser v. J. Sloan, £7; Bonthorue and Corser v. H. Garner, 17s 3d; Commercial Agency, Ltd.; v.-E. Humphries, £3 Is 3d; Petone Borough Council v. Tupoki Takorangi; £170 4s; Cameran and Gray v. J. G. Hill, £1 Us; Baldwin and Co., v. G. G. Martin, £12 7s; J. E. Boyd'v. F. D. Still'and'E. Still (separate estate), £21 19s 2d and possession by 30th January;' Lucy "A. Burns v. A. Wallace, £26 ss, and possession by 30th January. On a judgment summons C. B. Rush was ordered to pay D. H. Honore £17 5s forthwith, in default 18 days' imprisonment; Arthur Garner to pay Mrs. E. M. Edwards, £41 8s 6d in default 28 days' imprisonment, warrant to be suspended as long as defendant pays 10s a month; T. H. Johnston to pay Wilson and Horton, Ltd., £2 4s 5d forthwith, in default three days' imprisonment; J. O. .Wallace to pay V. T. H. Graham £1 19s 9d forthwith, in default two days' imprisonment; R. P. Edwards to pay the Petone and Lower Hutt Gas Lighting Board £5 5s forthwith in default six days' imprisonment.