MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Taranaki Daily News, 5 October 1929, Page 3

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

SITTING HELD IN WAITARA. A sitting of the Magistrate’s Court was held in Waitara yesterday before Mr. R. W. Tate, S.M. Judgment by default was given in the following undefended civil cases:—H. I. Chittenden v. Watty Shelford, £6 16s 5d (costs 37s 6d); 11. I. Chittenden v. E. McEwen, £6 19s (30s 6d); H. I. Chittenden v. Eketane, £lO 7s 6d (375). On judgment summons, Huirua Ngapeki was ordered to pay Stead and Prichard £2O 7s 3d, plus solicitor’s fee 21s, in default 21 days’ imprisonment. E. Adlam. was ordered to pay H. S. Schwieters £7 17s 8d at the rate of 10s per month, in default seven days’ imprisonment. Charged with riding a motor-cycle in a manner dangerous to the public, with having no license at the time, and with being°intoxicated, a young Maori named Gill Hoeta pleaded guilty. Hoeta was prohibited from holding a license for two years and ordered to take out a prohibition order. The dangerous driving charge was withdrawn. Constable Lapouple said that on August 9, 1927, the defendant was convicted "of riding a motor-cycle dangerously and with being intoxicated at the time. He was prohibited from holding a license for two years. On January 12 he went into Waitara, got drunk and took his brother’s cycle. He rode up Big Jim’s Hill at a speed estimated from 60 to 70 miles per hour. He could not negotiate the corner, collided with a teleo-ranh pole and received serious injuries. 0 He was taken to the hospital with a fractured skull and a paralysed arm which he would probably never be ao-ain able to use. The police did not desire the man to be further penalised in a monetary sense, as in any case he would be unable to pay. ~■ The j;iagistrate said the public would have to be protected, and the man kept off the road. He would be prohibited from holding a license for two years, and. he would also have to take out a prohibition order. _ In the- motor collision case Clara Old v Charles S. Lumley, which came before the Supreme Court on appeal, judgment was given for the plaintiff for £PO The costs against the defendant amount . > £5l, of which £l5 12s were on account of the Supreme Court proceedings.