MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 24 March 1930, Page 6

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

J'lllS MORNING'S SITTING

Ai (he Magistrate's Court (his mom itiff Mr T. K. Mauusell, S.M., was on the Bench.

A police request for the withdrawal of a charge of breach of probation against Pen v Sewell was granted.

For I lie disobedience of a maintenance order for 10s ;i week in respect to a child. Albert Kdward Kidson, who lias been in arrears.since 9th September, was sentenced to three wick.-,' imprisonment, warrant (o lo suspended as long as defendant pays £1 a week, costs £1 Is. Judgment for plaintiff by default was ghen in the following civil actions:--Joseph E. Clear v. Redvcrs Reilly. £9 10s, costs £1 ss; Fanny Louisa .Melton v. lle.nrv Edmund Frost, £2, costs Os; Nelson City Council v. John William Brown, £l2 7s 6d, costs £1 Cs : Nelson Cily Council v. Charles Noel ISarrs, £8 10s 4d, costs 15s; Nelson City Council v. Rex Jones, £1 IDs Id, costs 8s; Fell: and Ifarley v. Percy Nisbett, 10s 6d, costs 10s; The Public Trustee v. George Roland Stratford and Elizabeth 1. Stratford, £4 3s, costs £1 lis; Fell and liarley v. John James Fiven. £2 Os 3d, costs 10s; Fell and Harley v. Hilton James Hunter. £7 10s 6d, costs 17s; Fell and Harley v. Stanley Charles Pahl, £1 8s, 1 costs 8s; E. Buxton and Co., Ltd., v. Clarence Vivian James, £6 19s 7d, costs 1 17s; E. Buxton and Co., Ltd., v. John J James Fiven. £4 7s 3d, costs 10s; E. Buxton and Co., Ltd., v. Harold Stanley Slalter, £ls 13s, costs £1 ss: Perfection .Motors, Ltd., v. 11. S. L. Skitter, £2O 6s 4d. costs £1 10s; E. D. Barry v. Victoria Norris, £2l 15s 4d, costs £1 10s; James Baird v. R. A. Bang, £8 14s 4d, costs 17s; S. Kirkpatrick and Co., v. A Binsen, £l7 3s Bd, costs £1 3s.

In a judgment summons case Wainica County Council v. Frederick Sowinau, defendant was ordered to pay £5 a month off a debt of £26 5s 4d, in default three weeks' imprisonment.