MAGISTRATE’S COURT

New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11740, 30 January 1924, Page 7

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

A LENGTHY LIST. Mr E. Page, S.M., presided over yes* terday's sitting of the Slagistrate's Court, when police cases were dealt with GAOL FOR INEBRIATE. Robert William Wilson made his sixth appearance lor insobriety. Senior Sergeant Lander said the accused had been Before the court on Alonday for drunkenness and was fined £5. A term of imprisonment, without the option, would : perhaps meet the case, declared Senior Sergeant Lander. This course was adopted, and Wilson was sentenced to twentyone days' imprisonment. William Murphy, with three previous convictions for insobriety, was fined £3, in default fourteen days' imprisonment. On a seconds charge of a breach of his prohibition order, the accused was fined £2, in default fourteen days.

CIVIL CABES

JUDGMENT BY DEFAULT. In the following undefended civil cases Mr E. Page, S.M., gave judgment for plaintiff by default: Wellington City Council v. Lewis Allan Gourlay, £3 19s 6d, costs 28s Gd; Morrison and Penney v. S. G. Perry, £5, costs <£3 IBs; Christian, Ltd. v, Howard Taylor, <£33 Is, costs £4 Is 6d; Reliable Bystems Co. v. A. Morgan, £4 4s, costa £1 4s 6d; George Jones v. Alexander »Sutherland, £3, costs £1 9s 6d; The Roberts Trading Co. v. William Hobidas, £l 5s 3d, costs 9s; Charles Hill and Sons v. J. R. Kessell, £2 11s Gd, costs £1 4s 6d; same v. Miss N. Hayward, £2 17e 6d, fcosts £1 3s Gd; B. H Mayall v. J. C. Cusack, £6 3s, costs £1 11s 6d; same v. A. B. Shelbourne,' £9, costs £1 10s 6d; James Jeffries v. W.. Skeet, costs <xnjh% 14®; Bannotyne and Hunter, Ltd. v. K. P. Smith, £4 10s sd, costs £l 3s 6d; Barnett Glass Rubber Co., Ltd. v. Edward Henderson, £l6 9s 6d, costs £2 16s; same v. G. A. Gundlock, £3 Os 3d, costs £1 3s Gd; same v. The United Service Motor Co., £175 14s». costs £8 10s 6d; Self-Help Meat Exchange v. Miss Mary Flynn, £2, , costa £1 As 6d; same v. Geofage tf«fcn;e«! Griffiths, £3 13s Id, costs Ml 5s 6d; 3\ Spence Nichol v. The New Zealand Wrecking Co. Ltd , £lOl 66 Bd, costs £6 Os 8d; Moore, Wilson and Co., Ltd. v. J. Rudd, £9 2s sd ( , costs £1 12c 6d; W. H. Broderick v. A. Buckley, £4B, costs £4 Is 6d; Joyce, Champion, Howden v. Patrick Fraser Howden, £36 ss, costs £4 Is *695 C. S. Russell v. J. Scott, £3, £1 8s 6d; Thomas Jones v. H. Lambert, £7, costs £l 10s 6d; John Roland Hanlon v. Howard and Tilyard, £5, costs 4s; , John Swinson, Ltd. v I. Slape, £ll 13s 1 6d, costs £2 17s. JUDGMENT SUMMONSES. Gilbert William M&hony was ordered to pay 010 Wellington Drivers' Union the sum oif £2 5s by February 12th, in default forty-eight hours' impri sonment. Leonard Theodore Jacobsen was ordered to pay Henry James McMillan Brown the sum of £5 2s 6d by weekly instalments of ss. R. S. Bush to -pay W. H. Tisdall. Ltd., the sum of £3 Is lOd before February 12th, in default forty-eight hours' imprisonment.

James Proctor to pay Rouse, Black and Sons, Ltd., £5 5s 6d before February 12th, in default three days' imprisonment.