S.M. COURT ,

Hokitika Guardian, 15 February 1939, Page 5

S.M. COURT ,

TO-DAY’S SHEET

• A SHORT SITTING.

Mr Raymond Ferner, S.M., dealt with the following business at to-day's sitting of the Magistrate’s Court:

WANDERING STOCK.

William Pascoe', for permitting a horse to wander without proper guidance in Weld Street on January 16, was convicted' and fined £1 and costs. A fine of £1 with Court costs was imposed on Alfred Bernard Lawson, who was charged that, at Hokitika on January 16, being other than a poundkeeper, did rescue from the policestation yard..a horse lawfully impounded in such yard. Defendant appeared and pleaded guilty. Sergeant Gilligan said the horse was one belonging to Pascoe, defendant in the previous case, and had been found wandering by a constable in the early morning. The constable was unable to communicate with the' pounclkeeper, and placed the horse in a small yard at the rear of the police station. This was about 5 a.m. Sometime before [ 8 a.m. the defendant, to whom Pascoe had given a shilling to take the horse and put it in a padcjock ,in Beach, Street,’• rdfitYiiifig It 'next'' 'morning, ,to-,th? ,-station-;and < removed animal. He had went to the paddock where he first put the horse, and found it had been let out and had been hunting for two hours for it. Asked uy the Magistrate what he had to say, Lawson replied that he had hunted for the (horse for two hours before he saw it in the police station. He thought it had been put there to eat down the grass, as he had previously seen sheep and horses there for that purpose, he thought. A fine of £1 and costs was imposed.

MOTOR BREACHES. For failing to carry a warrant of fitness in a motor-car he used on the Hokitika-Greymouth main highway at iokitika on January 10, Ralph Diserens of Murchison, was fined 10s and costs. ' . " ■ , A charge laid by Inspector Chibnall against William Gooch, wTcTi driving a motor-car along the main highway at. Chesterfield without due care and attention on December 23, 1938, was dismissed for want of a prosecutor. Edward John Case, sof Greymouth, was charged with driving a motor-car at Hokitika on January 10, and not being the-holder'"of 5 a "drifer’s license? 1 A fine of 30s with‘costs was imposed. Constable Gilmour gave evidence of stopping the car driven by tiie defendant, whom he asked to produce his driver’s license. Case was' unable to do so, but assured witness he had a license, and gave as his explanation that he had left it in Greymouth. Enquiries, revealed that the defendant was not the holder of a license at all. CIVIL ACTION. Judgment for the plaintiff by default with Court costs and solicitor’s fee on an undefended scale was given in an action brought by Western Estates Ltd., against James A. Mulvaney for the recovery of £2O. Judgment by default was also entered for Renton and Co. in an action against A. Agnew, lor £l4 14s,