FEILDING.

Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 76, 25 February 1930, Page 8

FEILDING.

MILITARY CAMP EXEMPTION. (Special to “Standard.”) FEILDING, Feb. 25. Several applications were heard by Mr R. M. YY'atson, S.M., yesterday for exemption from the territorial encampment at Waverley. J. Foster, manager of a Feilding picture theatre, applied for exenqjtion on behalf of Harold Smith, cinema operator, on the ground that it would be difficult to Jill Smith’s place in the meantime. The .Magistrate thought it would be unfair to the many other operators who would be obliged to go to camp if lie granted Smith exemption and the application was refused. J. W. A. Travis, baker, applied for exemption for YY 7 . A. Geary, driver of a baker’s cart. The applicant gave cvidenco that Geary was his driver, and if he were taken lo camp, he (applicant) would have to do the work himself and this would mean working 24 hours a day. He had five men to supervise and iiis own work to do. It would take a fortnight to teach another man to do Geary’s round. Sergeant-Major Ryan, for the Defence Department, said that Geary had not attended camp last year, as that was his first vear as a territorial, and he was not required to do so. If lie were exempted this year, on account of his work, and next year lie had the same job, ho would bo entitled to exemption again, and would do no camp work at all.

The Magistrate to not prepared to accept Mr Travis’s statement that it would take a fortnight for a man to learn Geary's round. The application was dismissed. A third application was received from C. M. Jensen, a farm hand working in the Taihape district. Sergeant-Major Ryan explained that this was really a matter for the defence officer at Wanganui. The Magistrate said that, if the facts ns stated in the declaration of the applicant were correct, then it was a genuine case of hardship. The lad was employed by his father on a farm and the father was not in a position to hire help. Sergeant-Major Ryan said it looked like a genuine case and he did not think the department would oppose it. The Magistrate indicated that the Court would get in touch with Wanganui and the exemption would probably be granted. BOWLING. A rink from the Levin Bowling Club paid a visit to the Feilding green on Saturday and successfully played a challenge game for the Manson and Barr Cup. The scores were:—Feilding: T. Burne, Lawson, Ramsay, Neilson (skip) 17 v. Levin, Walker, Pyke, Brown, Monk (skip) 18. Feilding was one up at the last head when Levin scored two to win by one point. PLUNKET SOCIETY. Mrs Jenkinson presided over the usual monthly meeting of the Feilding Plunkct Society when accounts amounting to £24 6s 8d were passed for payment. The following donations were received: Mesdames Taylor £l, G. V. Wild 10s, Paul ss, G. Hum ss, Penny 5s and W. H. Hart ss, Anonymous 10s 6d. The Plunkct Nurse rcportd for the months of December and January as follows: Number'of new cases 5; visits to homes 203; visitors to rooms, adults 289, infants 269, older children 84. Outstations: Visits to homes 36; to rooms, adults 23, infants 21, older children 9. PERSONAL. Mr R. Hanger, late accountant, at the Feilding branch of the Bank of New Zealand, has been appointed manager of the Ohakune branch. Mr F. Billing, cashier at the local branch, has been promoted to MiHanger’s late position. Mr B. McCorkindale, at present in the Foxton branch of the Bank of New Zealand, has been transferred to Feilding and Mr B. McGavin, of Feilding, who has recently joined the Bank of New Zealand stafT, ’ has been appointed to the vacant position at Foxton. MAGISTRATE’S COURT. Mr R. M. Watson, S.M., presided over the usual fortnightly sitting of the Fcilding Magistrate’s Court to-day. POLICE CASES. Riding a bicyclo on the footpath in Denbigh Street cost William Naylor 10s and costs. Charles Sumner, of Feilding, pleadod guilty by letter to a charge of failing to give way to traffic approaching from tho right. Sergeant Cahill stated that a collision had occurred in which the cars had been damaged, together with a telegraph pole and about 20 coloured electric light Aiulbs suspended therefrom broken. Tho Magistrate said he was inclined to accept the facts of tho occurrence as set out bv defendant in his letter, in which ho said he unavoidably pulled over to tho loft in stooping to apply his hand-brake; this might have occurred to anyone. A fine of £1 with IQs costs was imposed. CIVIL LIST. Judgment was granted plaintiff by default in the following undefended civil cases:—Thomas Fraser v. R. Wilton, £3 11s lOd, costs £1 7s 6d; Humphreys and Andrews, Ltd., v. 11. Smith, £1 ss, costs 13s; F. and E. Taylor v. V. Hanson, £ll 7s 9d, costs £2 14s; R. J. Sporlo v. Catherine Smith, £4 17s 6d, costs £1 10s 6d; F. and E. Taylor v. S. Graham, £l6 0s Bd, costs £3 3s. JUDGMENT SUMMONS. G. Jensen was ordered to pay F. H. Stockwell tho sum of £lO 11s forthwith, in default 14 days’ imprisonment, the warrant to be suspended on the payment of £4 per month. Humphreys and Andrews, Ltd., secured an order against J. Fletcher for tho payment of £1 13s 5d forthwith, in default three days’ imprisonment. A. J. Hodgetts was ordered to pay Kingston Motors, Ltd., the sum of £9 2s 4d and costs, in default 10 days’ imprisonment, tho warrant to bo suspended on the payment of £1 per month. G. E. Bossclmann was ordered to pay Humphreys and Andrews, Ltd., the sum of £5 3s and costs, in default five days in gaol. W. F. Gardner secured an order against J. J. Fletcher for the payment forthwith of £5 14s 3d and costs, in default seven days’ imprisonment, tho warrant to bo suspended on tho payment of £2 per month.