MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Greymouth Evening Star, 12 September 1927, Page 6

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

BY-LAW CASES. A number of by-law cases were dealt with by Mr W. Meldrum, S.M. at Greymouth to-day. On the information of the police, the following were each fined 5/-, with 10/- costs, for failing to have proper lights, on their cycles after sunset: — W. Amor, G. H. Stubbs, A. Ellery, R. V. Frew, and A. Parkinson (there being two charges against the latter on each of which he was fined). On the information of Traffic Inspector A. J. Sloss, the following were each fined 5/-, with 10/- costs, for riding unlighted cycles after sunset: — D. Dunwoodie, R. McPherson, and L. H. Gilardie. Nellie McGrath, who rode her cycle without at least one hand on the bar, and thereby broke Section 114 of the by-laws, was fined 5/-, with 10/- costs. J. P. Hewison, who obstructed pedestrians by backing a motor lorry on to the footpath in Mackay Street, while unloading petrol, was similarly penalised. , A second offender, caught after hours at the Paroa Hotel, was fined £l, with 12/- costs.

MAINTENANCE. An application’ to vary a maintenance order o£ 6/- per week, made in 1913, was put forward by a defendant, whose arrears amounted to £lOB. He now had a wife and two children to keep, and his earnings during the past 12 months averaged roughly £4 10/per week. He could make no offer. Mr W. P. McCarthy requested that the original order be suspended meanwhile, in order that an effort could be made to reach a compromise. He also asked that defendant’s name be suppressed. The S.M. suspended the original maintenance order for six months, and as publication of the might affect defendant’s wife and .children, he agreed to order its suppression. A maintenance order for 12/6 per week was made by consent agaiqst another defendant, who was also ordered to pay £l4 4/- expenses and £3 3/- costs. The question of sureties’was held over, Mr W. J. Joyce appeared for complainant, and Mr J. W. Hannan for defendant.