MOSGIEL MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Evening Star, Issue 22004, 13 April 1935, Page 10

MOSGIEL MAGISTRATE'S COURT

FRIDAY, APRIL 12. (Before Mr J. R. Bartholomew, ,S,M.) Robert John Paterson was charged under the Stock Act with failing to notify his neighbouring farmers of mustering and yarding his stock for the purpose of ear-marking. Ho was fined £2 and court costs (£2 7s). The inspector of factories proceeded against Hugh M‘Lean on a charge of failing to pay an instalment of his emergency unemployment charge on income other than salary or 'wages, and was fined £2 and costs (£1 4s 6d). John Downey, charged with failing to pay his unemployment levy was convicted and ordered to pay court costs (10s). Peter Boyd was charged with riding a bicycle on Gordon road without a light, aud was fined 5s and court costs (10s). Stuart Alexander Moore was charged with cutting a corner at the intersection of Wycliffo street and Gordon road, and was convicted and discharged. The same defendant was also charged with negligently driving a motor car on Gordon road, and was fined £3 and court costs (£2 8s). Leonard H. Jackson, for driving a motor car with one head light, was fined 5s and court costs (10s). Andrew Gordon Reid, for a similar offence, was fined 5s and costs (10s), and with driving an unlicensed motor car he was fined £1 and costs (12s). William Herbert Gibson was charged with affixing, or causing to bo affixed, number plates to an unlicensed car. He was fined £1 and costs (10s). George Roy Bremner, charged with driving a. motor car on Gordon road without being the holder of a motor driver’s license, was fined 20s and costs (10s). A charge of negligent driving against the same defendant was dismissed. CIVIL CASES. Judgment was given for plaintiffs by default, with costs, in the following cases:— H, Swallow and Co. v. George Clark (Dunedin), claim, £7 10s; A. A. Pitfield v. E. J. L. Cleary (Dunedin), claim, £6 6s; A. Y. Hendry v. D. Murchison (Hedgehopc), claim, £ll 7s; Margaret Goodlet v. E. J. L. Cleary (Dunedin), claim, £3 2s 6d; Arthur Birley v. D. C. Revill (Mosgiel Junction), claim, £3 15s; Peter Young Bell v. G. M'Leod (Dunedin), claim, £1 2s.