LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Franklin Times, Volume XXII, Issue 89, 1 August 1932, Page 8 (Supplement)

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Significant “if.” • “If butterfat had been 1/4 per lb instead of 9d per lb I could have paid . 20/- In the £” said a farmer in the I Papakura court on Wednesday. 1 “Modified Form of Theft.” ! j When speaking of overloading cases at the'Papakura Court on Wednesday, Mr F. H. Levien, S.M. said “It was only ( a modified form of theft, sneaking it, as it were.” ' Soiree Postponed Owing to the accident last week in ; which Mr W. Kidd was seriously inJ jured, tiie Presbyterian soiree arranged for Tuesday evening has been postponed indefinitely. i “Pay or Keep off the Road.” | “The only possible standard,” said Mr F. 11. Levien, S.M., at Wednesday's ! Court at Papakura, when dealing with ! people who do not take out heavy I traffic licenses is “Pay, or, not put j your vehicle on the road.” j Van Strikes Engine. . ! It has been definitely established by ! the Railway authorities that the Far--1 mers’ Trading Co.’s van, which was j smashed at Takanini last Thursday • afternoon, struck the engine first and i not the second carriage as previously 1 stated. ; ! i A New Device. i J Mr Ron Geraghty, of the Papakura • branch of the Farmers’ Union, has had | his patent, a device for preventing j draughts underneath doors, officially ) accepted at the Wellington Patents j Office. •• Mr Geraghty has turned it into commercial value already. ! “Will Hear You Later.” j “Why didn’t you bring a statement' j of your earnings?” said the MagisI trate, Mr F. 11. Levien, at WednesI day's court at Papakura to a young j man. “I’m not going to waste the . time of the court. Stand down and j prepare a statement and I will hear you i later.”

' “So You’re the Owner!”

| During the hearing of a case at the j Papakura Magistrate’s Court last week, , a defendant, giving evidence said his I farm had reverted hack to the Crown i and they reverted it hack to him. “So j you are the owner,” said counsel, j “Presumably,” said defendant, amid ( laughter. '

A Case Adjourned. Because a defendant presumably was in a better position to pay than previously, counsel for plaintiff asked the Magistrate, Mr P. 11. Levien, S.M., at the Papakura Court last week, to vary an order by making defendant pay more per month. Mr Levien said he had never heard of such an application

| before. Counsel submitted it was I quite logical if defendant had rights, j that plaintiff also should have the j same rights. The Magistrate admiti led there was something in counsel’s

: request and said it was possible of j course for a defendant lo come into a

, £I,OOO and squander it immediately, j In the case before him it would take j five years to pay the debt. Mr Le- , vien said lie would investigate the re- ! quest made by counsel, and adjourned j I lie case (ill August 17.