MAGISTRATE’S COURT

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 10881, 22 April 1921, Page 10

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

THE LIST YESTERDAY. POLICE AND CIVIL CASES DEALT WITH. Police cases were heard in the Mag■rtxate’B Court yesterday before Mr F. K. £[ont» S.M. I’our first-offending inebriates were f" 1 ,* 6 to forfeit the amount of their bail, 10a. John William Hunter, for a third offence of drunkenness, was fined 20s, in defon»lt .three days. Alexander Bell, on a second charge or drunkenness, was ordered to forfeit aia bail, 2Qs. Hugh Owen, on a charge of drunkenness and breach of his prohibition order, waa. fined 20s on the first charge, with the alternative of spending three days in gaol, and ordered to pay 10s on too second count. offender arrested in a state of helpless drunkenness was ordered to pay medical expenses incurred (£1 Is) with the option of three days’ imprisonment. * „ „ CIVIL CASES. Before Mr W. G. Riddell, S.M., the Department of Labour instituted proceedings against George frame, grocer, Constable street, ’ for failing to pay overtime rates to an,employee, Mr 11. Putnam appeared for defendant, who was fined £1 Is. C. J. Duffy,/ milk vendor, Seatoun (.Mr Mazengarb) was convicted of failing to pay the award war bonus, to several employees and was ordered to pay £4 Is. JUDGMENT BY DEFAULT. Judgment by default was obtained by the H elhngton Gas Co. against Ernest Dovier for £3 2s lid and costs £1 'ts* 6dj the Commercial Agency against Schwas® -for la and costs £2 Sa; Miss Murray against W. MeGavin for £5 5s and £1 11s 6d costs; D. and A. Odlin against J. R. France for £66 2s and £4 17a costs; H. R. Peard (the Dux Auctioneering Cb) against Mrs O. Howard for £3 6s and £1 4s 6d costs; Henry O’Malley against Charles Peacock for, £2 123 and £1 3s 6)1 co-t-s; Henry O’Malley against W T. Martin for £2 17s 6d and £1 3s Cd costs; Oscar Jacobsen against O F. Ryland lor £ 1 14s 6d and £1 3s 6d costs; Wall and Johns against H P Avery for £7 Is 6d and £1 14s 6d costs; A. Ha trick and Co. against G. Slevers far £2 11 s 6d and 24s 6d costs: Commercial Agency, Ltd. against O. W. Spiers for £lB 7s 9<l and £7 17s costsRouse, McDonald Co., Ltd. against Isabel Bellamy for £l3 7s 9d and £2 15s costs; Vacuum Oil Company against Marris Bros, for £9 18s 4d and £1 10s 6d costs-, A. Stark against C. Luxton for £1 7s and 8s costs; E. W. Mills and Co. against C. A. Peters for £l6 18s 7d and £2 14s costs; Vacuum Oil Co. against A. J. Gibba for £l6 6s 4d and £3 6» costs; Mothes, May aDd Bowman against B. Mantle for £6 14s and £2 Is 6d costs; N.Z. Meat Packing Co.-operative, Ltd. against G. Sevenson for £56 10s 5d and £4 11s 6d costs.