MAGISTRATE’S COURT

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 10846, 11 March 1921, Page 8

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

YESTERDAY’S SITTING. POLICE AND CIVIL CASES. Mr F. K. Hunt, S.M., occupied the Bench at a sitting in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday, and dealt with police eases as follow: Six first offenders for drunkenness were disposed of in the usual manner. Mary Johnston, was fined 15s, and Alexander Graham Dixon 10s. On a charge of using obscene language in Courtenay place on Wednesday, John Madden was sentenced to seven days’ imprisonment, and for a second offence of drunkenness he was fined 10s. Charles Victor Darton was remanded (on the application of Chief-Detective Ward) on a charge of stealing shirts, collars, tie, etc, etc., to the value of £5 10s, and belonging to Thomas Fearon. The offence was alleged to have been committed on Wednesday.

A young man named Edward G. Hooker came before His Worship on a charge of failing to comply with the terms of his release upon probation on a charge of unlawfully detaining a •postal packet. It was stated that the probation officer had reported unfavourably on the lad’s actions since his release upon probation. He was sentenced to fourteen days’ imprisonment. Gerald Thomas Silk, who is somewhat familiar with the, court interior, appeared on charges of failing to comply w-ith the terms of his Telease upon probation at Wanganui on December 29th, 1921, and on two charges of forging the tame of A. A. Webb ,to cheques for £lO on the Bank of New Zealand, Pahiatua, thereby causing Mary Sweeney to act upon them as if genuine. CIVIL CASES. Sitting in .civil jurisdiction, Mr W. G. Riddell, S.M., gave judgment for plaintiff by default m each of the following undefended cases -Veitch and Allan v. T. Nolan 15s, costs 12s; same v. H. C. James £2 9s lid, costs LI 3s Cd; Gleeson, Henry and Co. v. C. Mills £95 ss, costs £5 10s Gd; Kodak (Australasia), Ltd. v. F. S. Hodson, costs only 18s; Hope Gibbon?, Sons and J. B. Clarkson, Ltd v. C. \V. Ancell .£33, costs £1 14s; Vacuum Oil Co. v. George Haines, costs only 15s; Waterworth's, Ltd. v. Herbert A. Jones £3, costs £1 3s 6d; John Chambers aud Son, Ltd. v. Multi-llay Electric, Ltd. £3, costs £1 3s 6d; Commercial Agency and' A. L. Harper v. E. Harrison £2 17s, costs £1 9s 6d; Tripe and Ellis v. F. J. Chapman £2 11s, costs £1 4s 6d; Ferguso” and Osborn v. Raetahi Land Agency £l3 14s Id costs £2 16s; Vacuum Oil Co. V. G A. Robinson £9 17s 9d, costs £1 10s 6d; C. M. Bay v. A. Laurenson £32 13s Cd, costs £4 Is 6d; Commercial Agency and F. Copper, Ltd. v. Gilchrist, Todd and Co. £44 Is, costs £-4 Is 6d; Foxrr Film Corporation v. T. Shaw-Valentine £6B 14s 4d, oosls £4 14s; F.. M. Ryan v. Patrick Foster £2 3s lOd, costs 13s; Bristol Piano Co., Ltd. v. George V. Williams £2O 19s lOd, costs £3 Is; Blundell Bros., Ltd., v. L. Mills, £l2 12s, costs £2 14s. JUDGMENT SUMMONS. In a judgment summons case C. B. Riach was ordered to pay Thomas Kingston £24 13s 2d by March 34st,* or serve twenty-one days’ in prison. F. W. Collins to pay A. Hatrick and Co. the sum of £3 by Anarch 24th, or undergo three days’ imprisonment.