POLICE COURT

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10715, 8 October 1920, Page 10

POLICE COURT

YESTERDAY'S SITTING. VARIOUS OFFENDERS DEALT WITH. Police business was dealt with by Mr E. K. Hunt, S.M., who presided over a sitting at tire Magistrate's Court yesterday. Eleanor Hatfield was fined 10s for insobriety; for similar offences John Mack was lined £l, William Richards' 10s, and also 10s for breaking Ins prohibition order. First offenders were disposed of in the usual manner. Frederick G. Penny, who said lie was a trimmer on the Athenic, pleaded guilty to using obscene language in .■sydncy street on Thursday last, and also lor being drunk. Fines amounting to £3 10s were imposed. William R. Norman, a youth who had committed a breach lof probation, said that illness had prevented him reporting regularly to tho probation officer. He was sentenced to probation for another 12 months. CIVIL CASES. Sitting in civil jurisdiction yesterday, Mr. I''. K. Hunt, ti.M.~ gave judgment for plaintiff by delault in each of tho,. following undefended civil cases:—L. JAJlan v. Philip Aeowen, £8 4s, costs £1 5s Gd; A. S. Paterson and Co., Ltd., v. D. E. Porter, £BO 18s Od, costs £'s ss; Mary Keasley v. Claudo Oi'er (possession of chattels on value) £2O, costs £2 lGs; Veiurh and Allan v. W. A. Sou tar, £2 lis (id, costs £1 Is (id; Levin and Co., Ltd. v. Wong Young Chong; £99 7s 4d, costs £5 10s; J. B. McEwan and Co., Ltd. v. Harold V. Pope, £ll3 7s 3d,' costs £0 •8s 6d, Dayton Scale Co. v. J 5. E. Williams, £9 Os 6d, costs £2 5s Gd; Ada Riddall v. A. J. Beban £l3, costs £2 lis; G. Reynolds and Co., Ltd. v. S. Chikic £8 15s, costs £1 2s; same v. W. Vickcrs, £5 3» 3d, costs £1; same v. (Jr. 11. Stevens, costs only £1 35.; samo v. W. F. Rodger, £B4 12s 6d, costs £2; same v. Ayre Bros., £G3 Gs sd, costs £2 Is; O. B. Lempriere and Co. v. J. S. MeNico], £G lis, costs £1 13s Cd.