HASTINGS MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIII, Issue 199, 8 August 1923, Page 5

HASTINGS MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

TO-DAY’S SITTING. (Before Mr R. W. Dyer, S.M.) MOTOR VEHICLE NUMBERS. Norman Mathias Paulson was charged with having a number plate on a motor vehicle which was not easily distinguishable. Defendant wrote saying that on the day in question he had travelled over 70 miles over bad roads, with many pot holes which splashed the car with mud and caused the rear plate to be affected. Constable Heffernan said that the number was not dirty at all, but defendant had a spare tyre fixed at tho back in such a way that the number could not be seen. The number could have been read only for the position of the tyre. Defendant was fined £1 and costs 7s. BREACH OF ARMS ACT. R. H. Aitkin, charged with, about April, 1923, delivering a fire arm (a pea rifle) to W. G. Harper, without a permit to do so, was convicted and fined £1 and costs 7s. CIVIL CASES. Judgment was given for plaintiffs in the following undefended actions: — Official Assignee v. H. Julian £1 Is, costs £1 3s; A. Simmonds and Co., Ltd. v. Marehu Turoa, £3l 15s 6d, costs £5 ss; S. J. McKee v. R. T. Anderson, £2 2s, costs £2 4s 6d; T. Honnor v. J. Wallace, £lO, costs £2 6s; same v. J. Wakeley, £3 10s, costs 23s 6d; Fear Bros., Ltd. v. J. 11. Stevenson, £l2 5s 6d, costs £2 14s.