MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Greymouth Evening Star, 29 April 1924, Page 2

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

CIVIL CASES heard. Mr W., Meldrum, S.M., presided at a civil sitting of the Magistrate’s Court to-day.. - Judgment by default was given in each of the following claims:—L. F. Martin v t Alexander Fraser, £2 2s lOd; Bahay Saraty v. G. Dunne, £3 6s; same v. W. Roberts, £1 16s 2d. Proceeded against on a judgment summons for £8 14s 5d rent duetto Gertrude Martin (Mr G. A. Revell). James Dunne (Mr W. J. Joyce) consented to pay off the claim at the rate of £2 per month. An order as made accordingly, the first payment to be made on or before July 1. HARDSHIPS BOTH SIDES. With the plaintiff unable to accept a job offered to him in Blackball because. he could not obtain possession of a tenement owned by him from a man with several children, who could not find a house elsewhere, a peculiar position of hardship arose in a case in which John Edward Love, a recent arrival from Canada (r W. P. McCarthy) claimed possession and £2 14s rent (paid into Court) from Philip Patrick Rogers (Mr W. J. Joyce). Plaintiff said he was offered a job m Blackball, but had to live in Greymouth at present, as to go to Blackball would mean living in a hotel, which was too expensive. His father, aged 77, intended to live with plaintiff’s wife and himself. He had work in Blackball, but needed attention. Defendant said he had tried hard to get: a house, but could not find one. He had approached the mine manager at Blackball, and was told that the mi no housing scheme had not been begun. Mr Joyce said that the rent had always been paid to plaintiff’s father, Joseph Love, and ..plaintiff was never known as the owner.

Mr McCarthy, said that notice had ben served on behalf of plaintiff. Defendant paid the rent into Court subsequently, thereby recognising plaintiff’s ownership. 1 The Magistrate said that the casp was a difficult one to decide. There were hardships on both sides. He agreed that the defendant in paying rent into Court after the notice, recognised the plaintiff’s ownership. Plaintiff was entitled to succeed, but in fairness to the defendant he would allow time. Judgment would be given for plaintiff, and an order made for possession in one month. Costs were allowed. ) WARDEN’S CJOURT. Applications were dealt with as follows by Mr W. Meldrum, sitting in his capacity as Warden for Greymouth: — J. Taylor and C. N. Taylor, license to prospect for coal, adjourned to July; Charles Okey, hand-sawing and timbersplitting warrant; Ru Ru, granted for six months; Thomas Dillon, renewal of certificate of reservation, renewed for one year; H. W. Kitchingham, sawmill, license, adjourned for report; J. W. Brownlee, licenses for sawmills, adjourned sine die; Victory Mines .Syndicate, ordinary prospecting license, adjourned ; James Gibson Smith, hand-sawing and timber-splitting warrant ; Arthur George Hilen, hand-saw-ing and timber-splitting warrant, adjourned for report; Maurice Moore, hand-sawing and timber-splitting warrant, adjourned for report; Southern, KempeF and Buchanan, sawmill license, granted; Cornelius Warren, extension of term to construct water race, adjourned for report.