MAGISTRATE’S COURT

New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11652, 17 October 1923, Page 4

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

YESTERDAY’S SITTING BY-LAW AND CIVIL ACTIONS. For his second lapse on a charge of drunkenness, Frederick Morris, aged' 41. was fined Ills, with the option of spending forty-eight hours in custody, by Mr Li. Page. S.M., at a short session of the Magistrate's Court yesterday. BY-LAW GASES VARIOUS OFFENCES. By-law cases as follow were dealt with by Mr E. Pago, S.M.— Costs only were ordered to be paid by Joseph Banks, who was charged with failing to provide a rear light to a motoricar. Similar charges of failing to provide adequate lighting to vehicles re(suited in John E. Hunt being fined 10s \ and costs on one charge and ordered to | pay costs on another; Albert Arnold 1 Crump, £ 1 and costs; James David Margin Mclntyre, 10s and costs; Peter Pnl- ! mer, 10s and costs, and costs only on ‘each of two informations, and for* leavling the car unattended - defendant wa9 .fined a further 10s and costs; Paul SoloImons, 10s and costs; Herbert Stanley Stevens, on each of two changes, 10s and cos-Us respectively; Charles Hunter Downes, 5s and costs. Daniel Hill, as a result o*f driving a motor-car negligently, was fined «£4 and costs. For cutting a corner Frederick Bennett Kateno was fined 10s r.nd costs. Pleading guilty to charges of cutting a corner and of having no certificate of competency when driving n lorry, Joseph Sedann Lodge was fined 10s and costs on each charge. Blending guilty to a charge of crossing an intersection at an excessive speed, Albert Scohney was fined <£l and costs. Neglecting to provide a front number to his motor<ycle Leo. Hubert Staples was fined the amount of the costs incurred. The accumulation of offensive matter at his vegetable garden at. Miramar placed Wan Hing under the obligation of paving a fine -of £2 and costs. Wandering stock found by the rangers on city roads resulted in George Bvadnoek being fined 10s and costs on each of two charges; Joseph Brownless, 1-V and costs; George Bruce. 15s and costs; C. IT. Gn.vdor, and costs; Eric Lambert, ,£1 and costs; Frederick Taylor. 10s and O''sts and 15 costs on each of two charges respectively; and John Reginald Welsbv, 15s and costs and .€1 and costs on each of two charges respectively.

CIVIL CASES

U N DEFEND FD ACTIONS. Judgment for ivluintiff, by default, was given by Mr W. (1. Riddell, S.M., ui Urn V»agudrule’« Court in the following undefended civil rastv; — M. Mantel v. F. Bullivanl, 8s 4d, costs 14s; Bell, Gully, Myers and O’Leary v. Matthew Livingstone, XIS 6s, costs £2 19s: A. H. Christian, Ltd., v. F. .Marshall. J2lO 1« od, costs £2 Ut> Id; O. Bailey v. J. Bainhridgc, .£<> 10s 7d, coste rJL 16 s 6d; liarnet Glass Rubber (dinpuny, Ltd., v. T. 8. Goodwin, £~, costs

XI lls ed; lI.M. the King v. Louis Spiro, X 5, costs X2 lei; P. T. Pedersen v. Vr. J. Stevenson, Xl2 10s, costs X2 18s; F. B Butler and Co. v. Charles Robinson, X 5 2s lid, costs X2; F. B. Butler and Co v. Malcolm Murray, XI lls Id, costs tfa; F B. Butler v. Leslie Redwood, Xo Us 7d. costs 1 10s fid; Wellington District Hotel Club and Restaurant "Workers Union v. Finn White, XI lGs, costs 8s; Wellington District Hotel, Club, and Restaurant Workers’ Union r. Mrs Fannie Carter, XI 16s, costs 8s; International Radio Company, Ltd. v. New Zenland Wireless College, «£- 2s 9d, costs -*L 3s 6d• J. F. Hargreaves and Co.. Ltd., v. B G. Bennett, XV 13s Sd. costs XI Ids 6d- Salek Brothers v. Malcolm G. Reid. X 3 17s 6d. costs XI 3s 6d; E. Reynolds and Co., Ltd., v. J. Allen, X 7 16s, costs XI 10s fid; Dominion Mercantile Agency, Ltd., v. Mrs Mary Dunn, XI 15s 6d. costs 9s; Mary Ellen Jones v. Mns MeKendrick, costs only, XI lls; F.L. I° U, ’ K ’ and C. Young v. Edwin Gamble, XlB Ids, costs X 3 6s. JUDGMENT SUMMONSES.

On a judgment summons, Harry Hooper was ordered to pay Agnes Gilmnur or Gilmore, X 27 16s at the rate of XI per ' J° L Murphv to pay Walter Smart .£2 Gs before October 30th. in default two days’ imprisonment. j Lucre to pay H. Brown and Son XT 7s 7d before October 30th, in default Fivo da vs’ imprisonment. Arthur Albert Browne, to pay Herbert Leon and Cummings (on behalf of Crown) XU 2s 4d before October 30th, in default seven days’ imprisonment.