MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 13802, 30 September 1915, Page 4

MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

■'■ .:.-..: ■,■.'»'- .<-■ r~. At the Magistrate's Court this -morning Mn.R. S..Florai)cc, S.Mi, gave judgment for plaintiff in the following undefended cases: Stewart and Co. (Mr Hei) v. Hare Kaweuga, £2 13s . and costs % £l 2s ; Gisborne Land Co. (-Mr: Kirk) v. H. Robinson, laborer, £8 4s 4d and costs £1 lls-6d; A"! Thompson- (Mr Kane)". v. A. MeKensjic, £2 13s and costs 18s ; Douglas Frairk •■Brewster -v. Leslie Pettit, £20 and costs 18s; Joseph Newton (Mr Kirk) v. Harry "McGregor, £1 16s 8d and costs ss; Common, Sholton and Co. (Mr Stock) v. Harold T. Gaffey, £1 7s and costs ; 6sj James' Innes c (Mr Dawsbn) v. Robert -Little, ■ 163 arid costs'' ss 5 Johnston and Miller (Mr Kirk) v. Ncpiu Pani, £5 10s and costs £l lis 6d ; A. aiid E. Iveson (Mr Kirk) v. A.. C. Scragg, £16 3s and costs £1 10s - 6d ; Oaks and Anderson (Mr Dawson) v. William -.Rowland. £1' lis 6d'and costs 1.0s ; Jjoseph Harold Cato (MrvEthcrington) v. If. Drumnlond,' £1 12s 6d and; cost's 10s. j An order for immediate payment was made in each ■of the following judgment summons cases: Reginald -W. Fitt (Mr pillock) v. Charles A. Yardley, £7 15a, i\) default eight 'days' irnprisonrrient. In the'' case of • Archie Kirk (Mr Kirk) ' v. Rakdia Thqmpspn- an order was mado by consent fotv payment of £2 'oj month until tho amount of, the debt, • £18 16s 9d, is paid off. In the case of C. R. Skeet and Co. (Mr Rees) v. Frank Shirley Spilman, a debt of £50 4s, debtor gave evidence that he was a builder. Since January last ho had earned abemt £100. He was single, and had nobody to support but himself. He had been accepted for set-" vice at the frout-His Wordm, ; Now I

am^confronted .-with a difficulty owing ti thc'jj'English* Army .Act. Heisaid a. mai was! before, the tCourt the, 1 other day oi a summons, and he -.'pleaded • tin Army ' Act.- > Judgment was >. given ag aihst him. •• His -^Worship said he ha( looked ■'. into, the matter, and : .was afrah ajiiorderi would .be 'valueless.7— Mr Ree 1 suggested -concluding- the -examination.V- -. Debtor, said 'he .■had-'' had Ho go to >Wel lyigton in connection , with the death -o h)si father, and vhe himself had-fhad -sick ness.— -His {Worship; said he thought' deb tor might « have > made .. some offer. A man going to*. the, front wanted to paj his. debts as well as give his service- 1< the country. — Debtor said ..-he was m* endeavoring to.;evade payment, but- In had not the money.. His partner, win really incurred the debt, had got away and he had stayed to face the music There were, also - other partnership ac counts ho had to pay.—^The case was ad journed until 2 p.m. to-morrow to enabh counsel to look into the law regarding the Ai' m y Act.