LOWER HUTT COURT

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 136, 5 December 1929, Page 20

LOWER HUTT COURT

Mr. T. B. MiiTeil, S.M., presided over the monthly sitting of the Lower Hutt Court yesterday. '.

_ William Clarke pleaded guilty to selling ice cream in a public place on a Sunday and was fined £1.

For failing to observe the statutory halfholiday, Mrs. F. Chappell was convicted and fined £2.

.Cutting a corner cost Joseph Henry Wagg £1.

_ John Pothergill was fined £2 for driving a. car at a dangerous speed, and was convicted and ordered to pay costs only— 10s—on a charge of driving a car at night without proper lights. For using the wrong number plates on a car, Robert lan Map Donald was fined £1. :

n 103I 03 ?$ Bnilty were entered by Leon Grot-don Mac Donald to charges of speeding and failing to keep to the left. On the iirsfc charge he was fined £3, and on the second ordered to pay costs only—lls. Arthur Hemmings Mudgway, for procurl"S liquor during the currency of a prohibition order against him, was fined IUS.N -J< or a similar offence, David Kav was fined £2.

For passing a car on the wrong side, Hilary Francis Neild was fined 10s. Catherine Young was convicted and tinea £2 for overtaking vehicles at an intersection.

A fine of £2 was imposed upon Ernest LmuLfor driving at a dangerous speed Arthur Walter Stannard was fined lOs tor fixing the wrong number plates to a motor vehicle, and was convicted and ordered to pay 10s costs for using an un-

John Henderson-Johnston, who was in arrears with a maintenance order, was ordered to pay £3 Os forthwith, in default one months imprisonment. On a second similar charge he was convicted and sentenced to two days' imprisonment, to be released on payment of costs, 10s 6d • Judgment for plaintiffs by default was given m the following undefended civil cases:—Hutt River Board v. R. Kennedy (separate estate), £1 8s 7d; T. Davin X' AHc ndi ey ' £S 2s 6d ' E- F- Kothwell r\- A- §.• Barl?osh, £97 18s 6d; D. Levin Mtl v. Robert Reardon and Olive loline Reardon (heparate estate), £5 11s 6d: P Mulders v T Claughton, £6 6s; August Bros. v. A. Wallace, £4 18s. -. In judgment summons cases T. Pohio was ordered to pay H. V. Westbury £7 default eight days' imprisonment; W Swain_to pay; Jones Bros., Ltd., and c' Go-, Ltd., as assignees, £2 10s 6d forthwith, m default three days' imprisonment; W. Edwin to pay A E Partm £Ijl7t 3d : forthwith, in dtfault two imp-'ispnment;, L. T. Beck to PW C Rv^arrett^? 6s 4d forthwith, in default eight days'imprisonment; W Cudby to pay T. Davin £5 11s 6d at the rate ot 10s per week,-in default six dnya' imprKonment; \V. Cudby to pay J. E. Cave • at' , the rate °l-lOs Per week, in defaujt two daye' imprisonment; J. J^oldbeck to pay M'Morran and Co. £9 3s .M at the rate of 10s per week, in default nine days' imprisonment; A. W. Tapp to pay A. Gadsby £18 4s 6d at the rate ot ±1 per week, in default eighteen days' imprisonment.

A case in which James Kerr Moore (Mr o. o .Regan) proceeded against A Hugh Lo^e (Mr. A. J. Mazengarb) for ,±.21 was defended. Judgment was given ■for the defendant-with costs. -"