MAGISTRATE S COURT

New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11684, 23 November 1923, Page 8

MAGISTRATE S COURT

YESTERDAY'S IITTING POLICE AND CIVIL ACTIONS. Three offenders for their first lapse of drunkenness made an appearance before Mr E. Page, S.M., at the Magistrate’s Court yesterday. Two, who failed to appear, were each ordered to forfeit tho amount of their bail. Ids. The third, who, explained Sub-Inspector Cummings, had been drinking ‘heavily for some time past, and who still showed 6igns of unsteadiness, was remanded for a week for medical treatment Having, as the Sub-Inspector said, been found wandering at the back of premises at night, endeavouring to "pick up tome thing for her (benefit, Mathilda Maddison. aged 52, was charged with vagrancy in that she had not sufficient lawful means of support. “Little is known of her, ’ concluded the Sub-inspector asking for a week’s remand for a "clean up,’’ ‘ but she _ has been going about town for some time, and is in a filthv condition through sleeping out.” The remand asked for was granted. CIVIL CASES. Judgment for plaintiff by default was given by Mr \V. G. Riddell. S.M., yesterday in the following undefended civil The Wellington Gas Co., Ltd., > George Swenson, £l4 9s Bd. costs £3 3s; Veitoh and Allan v. G. Swenson, £7 6s 6d, costs £2 4s 6d; W. Green and Co. v. J. L. Radcliffe, £7 17s sd, costs £2 7s 6d; A. C. La Roche v. R. Philp, £l7 Is, costß £2 15s; Wood Bros. v. H. J. Simpson. £8 lGs 3d, costs £2 2s 6d; C. B. Lempriere and Co. v. G. H. Grant, £8 16s lid, costs £1 11s 6d; Arthur Gadsby v. William S. Hurcomb, £32, costs £4 4s 6d; same v. Mary E. Hurcomb, wife of William 3. Hurcomb (separate estate), £29. costs £3 4s: Billiards Ltd. v. D. J. 8011. 11s. costs 8s: George Scales, Ltd., v. T. McNab, £27 10s 2d, costs £3 Is; "N.Z. Times" Co., Ltd., v. Aparaina Te Rupo Ngata, £ll 8s 4d. costs £2 17s; Wellington Drain Pipe Co. v. J. McColl, £sl 19s 6d. costs £4 11s 6d; J. Fraser r. P. X. McGrath, £1 ss. costs._B|s; Mrs •*- Reid v. William B. Gullerv. £5 18s.

costs JBI 10s 6d: Wellington Gas Co.. Ltd* v. George J. Griffiths. JBI 11s. cosfa 9s; same v. Joseph Ward. 15s, costs I *l Commercial Agency, Ltd., and C. H. . Martin and Co. ▼. G. Raymond, JOl3 17a 2d, costs JO2 14s; Midland Bros. (N.Z.', (Ltd., t. A. C. d&4 11s 6d; Oliver and Warmington v. Is. Cavanagh, JBS, costs £1 9s 6d; Frederick Samuel Shell (on behalf of Croyn) ▼. Richard Galyer, .£l3 3s 6d, costs j£l 6s; E. Reynolds and Co., Ltd., ▼. F. J. da Marr, J 822 Is Id, costs JE3 Is; It; Alexander and Co. v. A. E. Whitford and L. P. Jones, .£66 13s 7d, costs JB4 18s 6dg Thompson Bros., Ltd., v. F. C. Evans. ,£l4B 13s lid. costs £7 4s 6d; Basil Cooper Hardware, Ltd., v. E. L. Hooker, £ll 16s lid, costs JS2 17s. On a judgment summons John Ducre tvrs ordered to pay Public Trustee, as administrator of the estate of the lata Laura Annie Marshall,* <£6 15s. at the rate of 5s per week; F. P. Chambers to pay Thomas Ballinger and Co., Ltd., .£9 15s lOd before December 15th, in da fault seven days’ imprisonment.