NAPIER MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXII, Issue 272, 1 November 1932, Page 8

NAPIER MAGISTRATE’S COURT

(Before Mr J. G. L. Hewitt, S.M.) CASES HEARD TO-DAY. Francis McGill, who was convicted on a charge of disorderly behaviour while drunk, was fined £l. Sergeant J. Daly, conducting the case for the police, stated that the accused had been creating a disturbance in the Public Works office. He had had money owing to him by the department, but it had been considered that he. was not in a fit condition to receive it. He had been asked to call for his money the next morning (to-day), but had refused to leave the office, and the police had been called in. THE CIVIL LIST. Judgment for plaintiffs by default was given in the fololwing cases:—R. Northe and Sons, Ltd. v. C. Kobinson £9 6s 9d, costs £2 0s 6d; Bullivant and Merrick, Ltd. v. A. M. Howard, £33 16s, costs £4 5s 6d; C. H. Cranby and Co., Ltd. v. L. Thomas, £242 5s Id, costs £lO ss; Commissioner of Taxes v. J. A. Leckie, £5 3s 6d, costs 18s; J. Bennett v. M. Andrew, £4, costs £1 10s 6d; Hawke’s Bay Rivers Board v. Jean McConnell, £3 15s 3d, costs £1 7s 6d; same v. J. Bartie, £4 6s, costs £1 5s 6d; same v. Angela Elizabeth Simson (separate

estate), £lBB 6s 9d, costs £8 ss; same v. F. C. Hartshorn, £5 Is, costs £1 10s 6d; same v. E. D. Rowe, £5 4s 3d, costs £1 12 s 6d; 8. A. Salt v. F. Byrne, £37 4s 6d, costs £4 3s 6d; J. S. West v. K. Amner, £2 14s 9d, costs £1 4s 6d; A. H. West v. E. J. Ferguson ss, costs 9s; same v. G. V. Duncan, £2 19s 6d, costs £1 3s 6d; G. Smith v. G. W. Smith, £l3 Is Bd, costs £2 15s; H. Williams and Sons Ltd. v. G. M. Crickett, £37 Is 2d, costs £4 Is 6d. On a judgment summons, C. H.' and E. Goodall were ordered to pay the Stephenson Trading Co. Ltd. £5 4s forthwith, in default five days’ imprisonment.