COURT NEWS.

Grey River Argus, 12 July 1927, Page 2

COURT NEWS.

SOLICITOR DISQUALIFIED. (Per Pforr Association). ■WELLINGTON, July 11. The appeal Court, to-day, considered the Law Society v. John Aloden Billiard, of Gisborne, barrister and solicitor, an application to strike the defendant off the roll. It was stated that there was a shortage in a trust account on Alarch 31, 1926, of £6764, and on January 3, 1927, of £1756. Bullard filed an affidavit which did not oppose the application, but stated that his deceased partner, E. IT. Mann, had received large sums for which no proper security was given It was stated defendant had paid off over £4OOO of the firm’s debts but could do no more. The Chief Justice, in giving judgment of the Court said there was no other way open to the Court but to strike Bullard off the roll, but, if in future defendant showed by his conduct that he might seek re-admission, the extenuating circumstances which had been pointed out, would not doubt be taken into consideration. BREACH OF AWARD. AUCKLAND, July 11. Fines amounting to £8 were imposed by Air. Hunt on D. O’Dwyer for failure to pay overtime and award rates to carpentering employees. The evidence showed that defendant employed three youths not apprenticed. They were therefore entitled to journymen’s wages, but had been paid a rate equivalent to apprentices’. After the fines were announced, Air O’Dwyer remarked that the boys would have to go out on the street. Mr. Hunt: I can’t help that. 1 don’t make the law. HAWKER’S THEFT. WELLINGTON, July 11. A labourer, James Joseph Bryce, who has been hawking boot polish was given six months’ imprisonment for the theft of a watch and silk scarf on separate occasions, when he [found the occupants absent from {houses. He had been previously three , times sentenced for breaking, entering and theft. _ _, ,