MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17953, 3 December 1932, Page 14

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

WAIROA SITTING (Herald Correspondent.) In tlvo Magistrate’s Court before Mr ! P. 11. Harper, .S.M., the following cases , were disposed of:— Judgment was given for plaintiff in the following civil eases: V. E. Winter and Soil v. K. Waihapc, £l7 9s 7d, and costs £3 2s; E. Balfour v. Paetai Wilson, £4 15s, and costs £1 19s (id; Wairoa Harbor Board v. A. K. Wyllie, sen., 15s lOd, and costs 12s; same v. Mrs E. Bigney, £1 ,1s 3d, and costs 3s. Judgment summons orders were made in the following cases:—E. Balfour v. Abel Lewis, £3 Is (id, forthwith; E. S. Kennctt v. 11. Macho, £lO 13s 2d, at lCs per month; same v. L. Kapene, £5 14s 2d, forthwith; same v. J. Maelie, £2 12s Bd, at 2s 6d per week; same v. Aretua Katene, £7 10s 9d, at 10s per month; same v. Moana Rigby, £lO (is Bd, at 10s per month Tawera and Jones (Mr Robinson) sued P. H. Sylvester (Mr Sainsbury for defendant on the counter-claim for £10). The plaintiffs claimed £9 by way of general damages for having been put off a wood-cutting job on defendant's land, the latter claiming £lO, the value of a dog alleged to have been shot by the plaintiffs. Mr Sainsbury 1 stated that the defendant had allowed •the. plain tiffs to cut wood on his property. They had a gun with them, and oue had shot hjs dog. Defendant then stopped the taking of the firewood off the property; his client had confessed judgment for £7, but objected to general damages, to which they were not entitled. ‘Duncan Gillanders, of Manga one, a neighbor of defendant. said the dog killed was a good, useful one, though it was old, and lie valued it at £lO. O. B. Wallis, employed by defendant on a scrub cutting •contract, stated that he heard a shot •fired at plaintiffs' camp, and next day ho found the dog dead a short distance from the camp; he also saw empty cartridges lying about, but heard only one shot. As neither plaintiff was present and the defendant had had to go to hospital the casc%was adjourned until December 22, i)