MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 10 November 1925, Page 9

MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

SITTING AT ELTHAM. The Magistrate’s Court sat at Eltham to-day, Mr. J. G. L. Hewi£t, S.M., presiding. BY DEFAULT OASES. Judgment for the plaintiff with costs against the defendant was given in each of the following undefended civil case*s: —Eltham County Council v. Claud Thaiu Flyger, £43 8s 5d (costs £5 2s 6d) ; W. Melville v. E. Avery, £l9 (costs £2 16s). MAINTENANCE ORDER VARIED. Marcus McLachlan applied for a, variation of his maintenance order in respect of his three children under the care of the Education Department, and also for remission of arrears accrued. Sergeant Henry said complainant’s order was for 26s per week, but up to July 28, 1925, arrears had amounted to £l3B. Since that date £2 had been paid. Complainant, in the box, said he worked by the hour as a farm labourer, and made about 12s per day, but Sergeant Henry asked w-hy he worked at such a low wage when he could get about £1 a day on the Opunake or Stratford railway works. The magistrate said it was a pity that the Education Department allowed, arrears to mount so high. They might know that there would be no chance of getting £l3B of back money. His 'Worship wiped off £IOO of the arrears and made the order for 30 per week, 4s of which would go to the paying off of the balance of the arrears. A B E-HEARING REFUSED.

Thomas Hammersley, for whom Mr. T. B. Crump appeared, made application for a re-hearing of a isheep-worrv-ing case in which an order had been made against him for the destruction of two dogs. . One of the animals had been destroyed, but the other had been, only inferentially implicated. Sergeant Henry: In the district to which the dog has been removed, sheepworrying has been going on. His Worship, looking -through the written reasons given for the re-hear-ing, said that there appeared to be no grounds on which Hammersley was entitled to a re-hearing. The re-hearing was consequently refused. _