MAGISTRATE’S COURT

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 10850, 16 March 1921, Page 2

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

POLICE, CIVIL, AND BY-LAW CASES

Police and by-law cases were disposed of by Mr F. K. Hunt, S.M., who presided over a sitting in the Magistrate s Cour,t yesterday. , . , Two first offenders for insobriety were treated in the usual manner. BAD LANGUAGE. A man named Charles Herbert Shaw said he “didn't remember’’ using obscene language in Dixon street on Monday, but for the offence he was fined 40s, and for a fourth offence of drunkenness he was fined ss. “You are now qualified for Pakatoa, said His "Worship, “and if you are not careful you will be sent there.” CASE DISMISSED. His Worship dismissed the information against Charles Sydney Woodward (Mr H. P. O’Leary) on a charge of stealing a magneto, .valued at £5 and belonging to McLelland and Co., contractors. Dunedin. The offence who alleged to have been committed in 1919 whilst the accused was engaged in ,tiio construction of the National Bank in Cuba, street. The defence was that the accused had innocently picked up the magneto amongst some building debris, and had shown no criminal intent. CIVIL CASES". Sitting in civil jurisdiction, Mr W. G. Riddell, S.M., gave judgment for plaintiff by default in each of the following: British Imperial Oil Company, N.Z., Ltd., v. Herbert Edward. Barnsley, ,£S 18s 9d, costs £1 l€s; W. S. Christenson and H. Oldfield v. P. Burton, JE2 15s, costs JCI 4s fid; W. Draffin v. John Marshall, £ll 19 s 3d, costs £2 14s; C. R. Graham v. J. T. Biggs, £3 11s, costs £1 6s 6d; A. E. Preston v. W. H. Ransom (sued in respect of separate estate). £2 4s 9d, costs £1 13s 6d; W. W. Martin v. R. Trembath, _t‘2 9s, costs -Cl 3s"fid; Oscar. Hewet-t and Co. v. Margaret Stokes, £4] 15s, costs ,£ I 3s fid ; R. S-tent and Co. v. R. A. Aliearne, .£9 12s, costs £1 10s fid; Roberts, Trading Co. v. W. R. Byrnes, £2 19s fid, casts £1 4s fid; E. C. Chileott v. A. T. Ford, £7 Is, costs £2 Os fid; B. Smith v. G. G. Scott, costs only, £1 Is. JUDGMENT SUMMONSES. Charles Brown was ordered to pay £2O 4s to the Dominion Rubber Co. by April sth or go to gaol for fourteen days. M. E. Page (of M. E. Page and Kiel) was ordered to pav £l7 10s 6d to the Savage Tyre and Rubber Company by April sth, in default fourteen days’ imprisonment. John Wilson was ordered to pay R. H. McKenzie the sum of X 23 12s at the rate of £1 monthly. TENEMENT CASE. In a claim for possession in which Charles Henry Guise sought to eject Beatrice O. Reddish and for the sum of £ls. His Worship refused to grant the application for possession but gave judgment for plaintiff for the sum of Al 5 and cost? amounting to £2 3s.