SOUTH OTAGO

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23771, 30 March 1939, Page 8

SOUTH OTAGO

BALCLUTHA Magistrate’s Court At the monthly sitting of the Magistrate’s Court yesterday, before Mr H J. Dixon, S.M., the number of defended civil cases was so large that several had to be postponed. Outside counsel engaged came from Dunedin, Invercargill, and Mosgiel. In arguing the matter of preference, the magistrate said he would have to take the cases in order of filing, Joel Lancaster (a trucker) was charged on the information of the Kaitangata Coal Company with wilfully and unlawfully interfering with a haulage winch. _ Mr M. _ Carson (mine manager) said that a miner had suffered a fractured leg thronk' the action of the defendant, who had refused to explain why he had opened a throttle valve. —The defendant, in answer to the magistrate, said he was 18 years of age, and his wage was 16a day. He could not say what caused him to interfere with the throttle of the engine.—The defendant was> convicted and fined £3. with costs dOs). Eric Norman Strain, charged on the information of Transport Inspector A. B. Archer with exceeding 30 miles per hour in Clinton on December 28. was fined £2, with costs (I Heffernan Bros. (Waipahi), charged with at Milton exceeding the proper road classification weight on. a truck, and (2) with exceeding the maximum load for which the lorry was licensed. —On the first charge, the defendant was fined £3, with costs (175) and on the second £2 and costs (17s). Peter Felling McSkimming, of Benhar (Mr S. D. Macdonald), was charged with, on February 3 at Clarksville, exceeding the maximum speed of 25 miles an hour for a heavy lorry—Mr Macdonald said the defendant said he had not realised the speed at which he was going. A fine of £2 and costs (12s) was imposed. Ralph James Willocks, of Dunedin, charged with on December 24 at Balclutha exceeding a speed of 30 miles per hour, was fined 30s. with costs (10s). Stanley Lloyd, of Kaltangata, was charged with at Clinton on December 24, exceeding a speed of 25 miles an hour with a heavy motor lorry.—The inspector said the speed was between 35 and 40 miles per hour.—A fine of 30s, with costs (10s) was imposed. Sydney Arthur Glennie, of Invercargill), was charged with exceeding 30 miles per hour at Clinton on December 24.—Inspector Archer said the speed was 40 to 45 miles per hour.— A fine of 40s, with costs (10s) was imposed. Norman Earl McKay, for failing to keep to the left of the road on the Kaka Point highway on December 31. was fined 20s, with costs (12s). R. E. S. Wilson, Owaka Valley, for allowing two cows and a bull to wander on the Owaka Valley main highway was convicted and fined 10s with costs (10s). James Patel, Gore, charged with exceeding the speed limit of 25 miles per hour for heavy motor vehicles was fined 20s with costs (10s). Matthew K. Nelson, Dunedin, charged with speeding on the Balclutha traffic bridge on March 4, was fined 30s, with costs (10s). D. A. Bichan, Kaitangata, for keeping an unregistered dog, was convicted and ordered to pay costs (12s) and 4s witness’s expenses, Albert Rogers, Kaltangata, similarly charged, was convicted and fined 10s with costs (10s), solicitor’s fee (15s), and witness’s expenses (6s). Civil Cases Mark Myers. Kaitangata (Mr Carson) v. Richard McLean, flaxmiller, claim £lO 7s 6d on a judgment summons. An order was made for payment of 2s 6d a week. Neighbours Disagree Harry Samson claimed from Alfred Lawrence, Waiwera, the sum of £l6 8s for goods supplied. Mr Hartstonge (Mosgiel) appeared for the plaintiff and Mr Walter for the defendant Harry Samson, retired farmer, Mosgiel. said he and the defendant were formerly neighbouring farmers, and there had been cross dealings between them. On August 26, K 36, witness held a clearing sale and the defendant helped to arrange things for the sale. One hundred and twenty chaff bags were left over from the sale and the defendant agreed to pay 6d each for them. Other items in the statement of claim indicated sales made to the defendant in the same way, after the sale. To the magistrate plaintiff said the cheque he received from the National Mortgage and Agency Company, Ltd., was a three-figure one. To Mr Walter: The sale realised over £IBOO, and the company did not make a loss over it. He received a full clearance from the company. He had asked the manager of the National Mortgage to write to the defendant and collect the money he owed witness. „ . ... Mr Hartstonge; None of the articles named in the statement was included in the list of goods claimed for. Mr Walter contended that the security (produced) covered everything on the farm. . .. Witness (further cross-examined) said the first statement he made of the debt was when he gave the particulars to his solicitor. That was two years after the auction sale. To Mr Hartstonge: The manager of the National Mortgage did not object when he heard of the articles sold to the defendant. Mr Walter said there had been dealings between the two, and that only a few shillings were owing on either 81 Alfred Laurence (Taumata) gave evidence regarding the dealings between the parties, by which it appeared that the articles claimed had been paid for by exchange of goods or services rendered. For the spring cart witness gave the petitioner two bags of oats. The double furrow plough was bought by witness’s father. The only chaff that witness got from the plaintiff was through the National Mortgage The bed was passed at the sale at witness’s bid of 2s, and next morning plaintiff said he could take It at that. Robert Lawrence, retired farmer, Taumata, gave evidence on similar Mr Hartstonge suggested that the case be adjourned to allow Mr Bews (manager of the National Mortgage and Agency Company Ltd.) to give evidence. ~ , , The magistrate said he would adjourn the case to Dunedin, but could not fix a date. Collision at Clydevale John H. Stevenson v. Frank Cooke, claim £35 damages arising out of a collision on July 4 on the ClydeyalePopotunoa road between a car driven by an employee of the plaintiff named Boag and the defendant. Plaintiff alleged negligence on the part of the defendant. Defendant counter-claimed for a similar amount. Mr W. H. Carson (Dunedin) appeared for the plaintiff and Mr J. E. Deaker (Dunedin) for the defendant. After hearing lengthy evidence, the magistrate said the evidence was conflicting. The plans showed that both cars were in the middle of the road, so that both drivers would seem to have been to blame. That being so. he could not give judgment for either party. Judgment would be given for plaintiff on the claim and for defendant on the counter-claim, both amounts being equal. The court sat until 9 p.m., adjourning until Friday next. Parents’ Association The annual meeting of the local High School Parents’ Association was held on Tuesday night at the school, when there was an attendance of about 20, Mr J. H Guest presiding. Explaining the finances of the association, the chairman stated that they had now succeeded in raising their share (£300) of the cost of the proposed enlargement of the assembly hall, which was estimated at £9OO. It would probably be found, however, that more would be required Office-bearers for the ensuing year were elected as follows: President Mr James Wood (Mr Guest declining re-election): secretary, Mr George Hunter; committee—Messrs Holgate, Williams, Middleditch, Lothian, Mesdames W. E. Moffat, Pearson, Throp and Green. Before dispersing

Mr J Garfield Anderson, rector, gave an interesting talk on the school curriculum and other matters of interest to parents.

Presentation of Cup Mr A. L. Shepard, president of the Balclutha Horticultural Society, and Mr S. D. Macdonald visited the South Otago High School on Tuesday afternoon, and Mr Shepard presented to the Blaikie House the handsome cup given by Mr Macdonald. The latter said he would like to see a horticultural club established at the school so that in the next year’s competition all the exhibits might be grown by the pupils. Cricket The following teams have been selected to represent South Otago at Gore on Saturday against Eastern Districts:— A team: Parker, Garven (Kaitangata), McGregor. Guest. Baxter (Balclutha), Tomkinson, Brownlie (Owaka), Bowie Kerr Cotterill (Milton), twelfth man, Keac’h (Balclutha). B Grade team: L. Dunn. W. Neale (Waiwera), I. Stewart, A McGregor, D Randle (Balclutha), W. Barron, E. Reid (Benhar), J. Cavanagh. R. Hancock (Lawrence), L. Wybrow (Milton) R. Brown (Clinton), twelfth man. Chapman - Cohen (Owaka).