MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

Taranaki Daily News, 19 September 1924, Page 5

MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

NEW PLYMOUTH SITTING. •FAILING TO REGISTER. A sitting of the Magistrate’s Court was held at New Plymouth yesterday, Mr. A. M. Mowtem, S.M., presiding. For failing to register Under the Defence Act, Rupert Henry Corkin, Raymond L. W. Gorkin. Francis Arthur Lee, Ivan R. H. McKenzie, Kenneth Bradley Marsh and Michael J. Harrigan were convicted and disciiarged. Frank Edward Goodwin, Joseph Leonard Goodwin and Albert Edward Marsh were each fined 10s (costs 7s) for similar offences. BREACHES OF BY-LAWS. For driving a motor car along Devon Street at an excessive speed, a schoolboy named Claude Walter Green was fined XI with costs 7s. Sen lor-Sergeant McCrorie, who conducted tdie< prosecution, stated that the speed of the ear was estimated by the constable who laid the information to be 30 miles an hour. Defendant, who did not have a speedometer on the car, considered he was going at 25 miles an hour. “I can see the time is not far distant,” remarked the magistrate in fining defendant, "when it will be compulsory for all persons driving motor ears to have a certificate of proficiency and when no person of tendei years whatever his ability, will 'be permitted to drive them. I tremble to think of the position yo.i or your father might ba in had you run over somebody when travelling at that speed.** For riding a bicycle at night without a light, Walter Thomas was fined 10s with aosta 7a.

ALLEGED THEFT. Thomas Stanley Humphrey who was arrested on warrant, appeared on a charge of receiving, on November 18, 1923, from W- R. Ormand?, of Oakleigh, the sum of £Q 15s on terms requiring him to account for Ihe same to Messrs. Dargie and Co., of Auckland, and failing to do so; he was also charged with .being found un-awfully in possession of twelve opossum skins at Oakura on September 17. On the application of the police a remand was granted until this morning to ascertain if the accused had an opossum license from the Hamilton Acclimatisation Society. An application was made for bail, but the police stated other charges were pending against the accused in Auckland. Bail was fixed in the sum of £lOO in the accused’s own recognisance, and one surety of £lOO or two of £5O each. I The accused said he did not see any likelihood of finding sureties. CIVIL CASES. Judgment for plaintiff b- default for the amounts mentioned was given in the following undefended cases:—Standard Insurance Company v. Arthur G. Bailey, £5 8s fid (coste £l' (to Robert George Gillington v. Harold James Jones, £1 4s 9d (8s). i Edward Quinlan was ordered to pay £24 arrears in rent (costs £3 Is 6a) owing to the estate of the late W. T. Jennings, on or before October 16, with the penalty of eviction from the premises in the event of non-fulfilment of the order. At the suit of William Adl&m, Percy Allen was ordered to pay £l6 19s 3d in default 14 days’ imprisonment, the warrant to be .suspended so long as defendant pays 7s fid a week until the debt is paid off, .payments? to commence on September 25.