MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

Taranaki Daily News, 1 February 1924, Page 7

MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

NEW PLYMOUTH SITTING. CIVIL CASES. The usual weekly sitting of the Magistrate’s Court at New Plymouth was held yesterday, Mr. A. M. Mowlem, S.M., presiding. Judgment by default was given for the plaintiffs for the amounts stated in the following undefended cases: W. F. Short v. D. Corrigan, £6, costs £1 16s 6d; Burgess Fraser and Co. v. Claude A Gleeson, £44 8s lid, costs £4 l s 6d; New Plymouth Gas Company Ltd. v. E. Hurley., £3 6s, costs £1 5s 6d; Jellyman and Forbes v. Douglas Lobb, £3, costs £1 8s 6d. BREACHES OF BY-LAWS. For driving a motor car up Cover Street on the first day of the races in a manner dangerous to the public Roy Daisley was fined £1 with costs 7s. Sydney Jury was fined 10s, with' costs 7s, for allowing a horse to wander on the Omata Road. James Jury was also similarly dealt with for an offence of a like nature. Edward Anthony, a boy of sixteen years, was convicted and ordered to pay costs 7s for riding a bicycle without having an efficient brake attached to the machine. CLAIMS FOR MAINTENANCE. An order for the payment of 12s 6d per week each for the maintenance of his two children was made against Alfred Ashley iFrancis, butcher, on the petition of his wife, who had divorced him. The defendant, who did not appear, made the offer to pay 12s 6d per week foy each child. Samuel Skipper, slaughterman, was ordered to pay 12s 6d per week for the support of his illegitimate child. Past maintenance was assessed at £26 2g 6d, and confinement expenses at £l4 Ils 6d. Of the total Skipper was ordered to pay £2O forthwith, the balance to be paid at the rate of 7a <kl per Week The troubles of the Simons family were again before the court, when AnSimong sued her divorced husband, William Charles Simons, for maintenance for his youngest child. An order was made for the payment of 12s 6d per week. Arrears were assessed at £3O. CLAIM FOR WAGES. In an action brought by John Parker Robson against Jessie W. Page, executrix in the estate of the late A. L. Page, for the recovery of £lB2 7s 6d wages and other sums, it was stated on behalf of the plaintiff that no actual agreement as to the wages to be paid had been entered into. The plaintiff had worked on the farm of the deceased and had driven his horses on various contracts, content to draw only enough cash for his immediate needs and to allow the balance to accumulate. Robson considered that his wages should have been £2 per week. For the defence it was submitted that when Robson had come to the farm it was only to do a few odd jobs around the house for about a month, but he had afterwards stayed on. For what work he had done he had been given his keep and such cash as he wanted. The hearing was adjourned until next Thursday to allow of the production of another witness for the defence.