COURT NEWS

Grey River Argus, 31 July 1939, Page 3

COURT NEWS

Theft of £Bll

ALLEGED AGAINST CHINESE.

CHRISTCHURCH, July 29.

A sum,of money totalling £Bll was involveu, taju, De..i..:;.ive-Sei’geant I-. Sinclair in the Magistrate’s Court today, when two Chinese appeared u.i charges of theft. The accused were Chang Chew Chong, aged s.xty-four, a fruiterer, and Arthur Wong, aged thirty-nine, a market gardener, of Manchester Street. Detective-Sergeant Sinclair asked for a remand until August 3, the ap p.ication being granted by ihe Magistrate (Mr F. F. Reid, S.M.) The charge against Chang Chew Chong was that on July 27, at ChDstchuvch, he 'stole the sum of £Bll in. money, the property of Wong Bros. Arthur Wong, alias Wong Foon, alias Wong Hock Tang, alias Ah Wong, alias Chang Lee, was charged w.ta breaking , and entering by night the dwelling of Wong Bros.. 652 Colombo Street, and committing theft.

DRUNKEN ESCAPADE.

CHRISTCHURCH, July 2.).

“It looks as if these charges are th? result of a drunken escapade,’’ said Mr D. W. Russell in the Magist.utes Court to-day, when he appeared ior Albert Hector Frame, Hill’s Road, a linesman, aged i forty-six, who, was charged with stealing a bicycle lamp, valued at 2s 6d, the property of Eaward Albert Gatehouse, and with being drunk in Fitzgerald Avenue. Sub-Inspector W. E. Packer, who prosecuted, said that Frame was arrested in a very drunken statq, and had taken the cycle lamp from a bicycle outside a hotel. On the charge of steeling the lamp the Magistrate (Mr F. F. Reid, S.M.) convicted and discharged the accused, while on the charge of drunkenness he was fined 20s and costs, in defau t forty-eight hours’ imprisonment.

DAMAGES FOR WORKER.

CHRISTCHURCH, July 28.

Judgment for £268/19/3 and costs was entered in the Supreme Court today for Harry William Purcell, a carpenter, of Ashburton, who sought damages of £BlB/19/3 from the W. Williamson Construction Company, Ltd., of Christchurch, for injuries received to the left hand in an accident with a circular saw. The jury agreed that the defendant had been negligent in failing to provide the saw with a guard, and awarded the plaintiff general damages of £2OO and special damages of £6B/19/3. Mr. Justice Northcroft said there had been abundant evidence for the plaintiff that no “fin” was fitted, said His Honour, and there had been no evidence to rebut that. v The jury should have no difficulty In saying that the defendant had been negligent. The substantial question was whether the plaintiff had been contributanly negligent. The jury would have to decide whether the plaintiff's eyperience was such as to make him reaLse the danger of “tailing-out" from a circular saw. The claim of £750 seemed fantastic In its verdict the jury aosolved the plaintiff of negligence contributing to

the accident. ' WILSON CEMENT CO. ELECTRIC SUPPLY. s WELLINGTON, July 29. The Court of Appeal, delivering judgment to-day in the case of Wilsons (N.Z.) Portland Cement, Ltd., against the Attorney-General heard in June, unanimously allowed the appeal ! of the company and set aside the mI junction which the Attorney-General, on behalf of the North Auckland Eleci trie Power Board, has obtained preventing the transmission of steamgenerated electric power along lines 1 from the company’s plant to the bor--1 ough of Whangarei and other con- | SU A cross appeal which the ; AttorneyGeneral had brought for the purpose of obtaining a more defin’te injunction than that -ranted him m the Supreme Court was dismissed. . The companv was allowed costs in the Supreme Court and the Court ol Appeal.