OTAUTAU NOTES

Southland Times, Issue 21722, 7 June 1932, Page 2

OTAUTAU NOTES

MAGISTRATE’S COURT. A sitting of the Magistrate’s Court was beld on Monday, June 6, 1932, before Mr E. C. Lewey, S.M. Judgment for plaintiff by default was given as follows: W. J. Wesney v. H. Powell, for £6 12/5, costs 15/-; same v. J. Stanaway, for £l3 10/10, costa £1 5/-. Judgment Summons: W. J. F. McCulloch v. W. Fraser, claim for £23 16/B.—No order made. Heavy Traffic Breach. G. B. Saxelby (inspector, Wallace County Council) proceeded against Samuel Butson for driving a traction engine without a license on the Moss-burn-Key section of the Gore-Te Anau main highway. Counsel for plaintiff said that no license had been taken out last year, and in January the inspector had written to defendant and advised him to take out a license, but had received no reply. In February defendant had come into the county with his engine, and again the inspector had advised him regarding the license. The fees had since been paid and the license taken out for six months.. Counsel for defendant admitted getting notice, but attributed the neglect to an oversight. Defendant worked from Five Rivers to Kingston, and had come into Wallace County at the urgent request of two men in the vicinity of Mossburn. .The cheque had been posted before defore defendant had got the summons. Convicted and fined £2, costs £1 11/6, solicitor’s fee £3 3/-. For not having the assigned numbers attached to his motor cycle Arthur Huggins was convicted and fined £2 and 10/- costs, and for carrying a passenger on his motor cycle without having foot-rests attached, the same defendant was convicted and ordered to pay 10/- costs. R. S. Angelo was charged by the ranger of the Acclimatization Society (E. Duncan) with unlawfully taking native pigeons. Counsel for the society said the ranger was in the vicinity of Fairfax and noticed a young man coming out of the bush with a rifle and bag. On seeing him the man disappeared into the bush, but later he appeared without the bag, which was afterwards found with two native pigeons therein. These birds were protected and the society looked on their destruction with disfavour. Defendant pleaded guilty, and the magistrate fined him £5, court.costs 12/-, and solicitor’s fee £3 3/-. The police proceeded against Thomas William Kennedy for driving an unlicensed traction engine. Defendant pleaded guilty, and counsel said he was careless, but his action in not registering was not deliberate. He had always previously paid the fee.—Convicted and fined £2 and costs 12/-. Thomas Norman was charged with attempting to drive a motor vehicle across the railway line when a train was approaching, and pleaded guilty. Constable White said that on the day in question a visitor had called on defendant, and they were coming out of his property. In attempting to cross the line the engine of the car stalled, and the railway engine threw it off the line, defendant receiving severe injuries. The car had also been badly damaged.—Convicted and ordered to pay costs 10/-.