MAGISTRATE’S COURT

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11305, 2 September 1922, Page 16

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

THURSDAY’S SITTING. POLICE AND CIVIL CASES. Mr W. €r. Biddell, S.M., presided at the Magistrate's Court yesterday, when police and civil cases were heard. For drunkenness, Robert Galloway Simpson, with two previous convictions, was fined 20s, in default three days’ imprisonment. Walter Charles Brook, for being drunk while in charge of a motorbicycle, was fined 40s, in 'default seven days’ imprisonment. CIVIL CASES. JUDGMENT BY DEFAULT. At the Magistrate's Court, yesterday, Mr W. U. Riddell, S.M., entered judgment for the plaintiff by default in the following undefended civil cases:— D. 1.0. v. T. Bamfield, junr., £2 4e 6d, costs £1 Ss 6d; Miss D. D. Pearce v. W. Hi -Palmer, £3, costs £2 0s 6d; Samuel Mareden Collegiate School Trust Board v. Imldy Saunders, £3O 3s 7d, coats' £4 6s 6a; Veitch and Allan v. Walter Dodd, 19s, costs 8s; Commercial Agency and F. Cooper, Ltd., v, D. O'Dwyer, £8 16s 7d, costs £1 18s 6d; Motor Import Company, Ltd., v. O. A. Peters, £l4 10s sd, costs £2 14a; British Imperial Oil Company (N.Z.), Ltd., v. j. Stewart, £94, costs £5 7s; L. P. Davies v. L. A. Jones, £4 9s 6d, costs £1 3s fid; Laery, Beveridge and Co., Ltd., Y. W. J. Mitchell, £l2l 0s 4d, oosts £6 10s 6d; Veitch and Allan V. John Trelease, £7 19s lid, oosts £1 19s fid; Commercial Agency and Samuel Brown, Ltd., v. T. McNab, £9 Bs, costs £1 10s fid; same and Dr E. W. Smyth v. W. King, £5 6s, costs £l_lss 6d; same and same v. Gordon Kent, 6d, costs £1 8s; same and same v. L. Hunter, £6 0s fid, costs £1 !0s fid; George Oswell Smith v. A. < White and Co., £2 5s fid, coats £1 4s fid; Commercial Agency and D.I.C. v. O. M. Bray, £B9 9s Id, costs £5 4s fid; P. v. Hugh Inglis, £ll 16s 9d, costs £2 14s; Alexander Sutherland v. Harold Buckingham, £45, costa £4 5s dd; Savage Tyre and Rubber Company, Ltd. (in liquidation) v. Commercial Garage, £6l 15s, costs £5 Is fid; A. S. Paterson and Co., Ltd., v. Edwin James Barnes, £54 18s fid, costa £4 13s fid; P. Wharton v. H. Bates, £6l 12s, costs £4 16s 6d; J. B. MaoEwen and Co., Ltd., v. David Leslie Cragg, £45 2s, costs £4 5s fid; George Ivan v. B. F. A. Ryde, £l3 I3s, costa £3 9s; Hone, Gibbons, Ltd., v. Loyal Smith, £7 0s 2d, costs 15s. YESTERDAY’S SITTING. POLICE AND SUMMONS CASES. Mr F. K. Hunt, S.M., presided a>t the Magistrate’s Court esterday when police and summons cases were hoard. Charles Aloysius Wilkinson, on a charge of failing to comply with the terms of his probation, was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence when called upon. Defendant was ordered to pay £1 per week restitution money. William Patrick Leary, on a charge of being an idle and disorderly person, was on the application of Chief-Detec-tive emp, remanded until to-day. Bail was allowed on a security of £SO. Eric Garnett Toulsnn, who had fail ed to comply with the terms cf his ro-

lease on probation, was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment. James O’Neill, who pleaded piilty te drinking liquor in a restaurant after tho hotels were closed, was nued 10s and costs. Robert Bruce McKinley, for being drunk while in charge of a hn.te ai d carriage, was fined £3 and costa Francis Leo Shivnan, on two chaises of unlawfully converting a victor bicycle to his own use, was admitted to probation for twelve months and ordered to make good damages amounting to £8 at the rate of £lO * r week-. For stealing a fountain pen rained at 2os, the property of Leonard Lewis Johnston, Stanley Raby Wright was fiimd 90s and codts. William Green, for selling short weight bread, was fined £lO and costs.