WAS IT THE WEATHER?

Taranaki Daily News, 1 December 1932, Page 8

WAS IT THE WEATHER?

COURT PROCEEDINGS LIVENED.

HAWERA SOLICITORS IN FORM. It may have been the summer weather or it may have been the approach of the festive season but the proceedings • of the Hawera Magistrate’s Court yesterday were enlivened by a light-hearted atmosphere. It all started when the case of Blank V. • Blank was called. A solicitor (amicus curiae): Oh, he’s dead.

Mr. J. H. Salmon, S.M.: Well, that disposes of that. The same solicitor in a case that interested him asked for an adjournment to the Greek Kalends or January 25. Mr. Salmon: Hardly the same thing. ■, The adjournment was made until January 25, for, of course, the Greek Kalends is synonymous with never. Solicitor (examining judgment debtor): You are sharemilking on the Glen Road?

■Debtor (primly): No. I have nothing to do with farming. Solicitor (resignedly): Another case where the wife has the business I. suppose. One debtor admitted that judgment had been given against him for £lB odd for newspaper subscription but said he had made attempts to stop the delivery of the paper. , Mr. Salmon: We can’t go. into that now. It is remarkable that the newspaper ' should let you run up such an account. It must be for eight or ten years. Why didn’t you defend the case? Debtor: Once. before I attempted to defend a case and the cost was something appalling. As the next debtor entered the box he changed, the fuchsia blossom he was carrying to his left hand so he could take-the Bible in his right. , . ... His examination led to a : discussion on grammatical usage. The debtor said his home was in the country. . - ''. Solicitor for the creditor: Who live there? 1 , '■ ' ’ Debtor: I don’t . know who lived ■ there. ■ . .

Solicitor: Who live there? .-. Debtor: I can’t, tell you who live< - there before me. . ' Mr. Salmon: Who lives there? , ~ Solicitor:' No. Who live there?. Ther is more than one I suppose? , \ A relief worker said he put his span time into his half-acre section. He di< Z not sell any vegetables. ■ Solicitor for creditor: What do you d< with them? Debtor: We eat: some and give some t< the Maori children. We are all hare up and try to help each other. If yoi want any I will give them to you. ’ Solicitor (courteously): Thank you. A > solicitor examining a debtor ven- ; tured tlie opinion that October was no the flush of the dairying season. Debtor: Ah, but you don’t know thf nature of the country we live on. Mr. Salmon had refused to makt orders - against several unemployed men .• Another relief worker told his. solicitor who came to help, him face a judgment sunuribns that he was unemployed, married and had two children. Furthei examination was interrupted. Solicitor for creditor: That’s enough isn’t it? HAWERA COURT SITTING. UNDEFENDED CIVIL ACTIONS. Judgment for'plaintiff by default was given by Mr. J. H. Salmon, S.M., in the Hawera Court yesterday in the following cases: Farmers’ Co-op. v. R. W. Uncles, £1 19s 3d (costs Ils); R. J. O’Dea i v. I. L. Whiting, costs only 16s; Alexander. Looney v, R. -C. Payne, £l3 10s (costs'£2 15s); E, Morris Ltd. v. Ernest ' Leach, £1 3s 6d (costs Ils); Home Supply Co. Ltd. v. H. Russ, £lO (costs £1 16s); : E. A. Poole v. James, Mitchell, £22 13s '"j 7d (costs £4 5s 6d); Newton King Ltd. v. F. Birkenshaw, £2 15s 2d (costs H 3s 6d); Hawera County Council v. Tutahione, £2O 15s 3d (costs £4 13s 6d); same ■v/ Pohau Tangotango, £l6 16s 3d (costs .’■£3 6s), .. - .'■ • . On judgment summonses the following orders were made: Sid Johnstone 4 to pay Lucy Walden £8 18s 6d (15s 6d), in default nine days’ imprisonment; S. Nicholson to pay Cut Rate Providers Ltd. £5 7s Id (15s 6d), the. warrant to be suspended so long as the debtor pays 10s a.month, in default five days’ imprisonment; D. V. Banks to pay-Domin-ion Motors Ltd., £54 9s 7d (£2 2s), the ( warrant to be suspended so long as the debtor pays 15s a week, in default 54 days’ imprisonment; James Pullen to pay Launcelot Goodger £9 15s 6d (15s 6d), in default nine days’ imprisonment;, F. T. Nicholson to pay W. V. Patterson £5 6s 6d (15s 6d), the warrant to be suspended so long as debtor pays 10s a .' month, in default five days’ imprisonment; F. J- Crossley to pay W. A. Parkinson and Co. Ltd. £l7 • 18s 9d (£1 Is), the warrant to be suspended so long as the debtor pays 10s a month, in default 18 days’ imprisonment; J. Ngeru to pay W. Page £lO 16s 2d (15s 6d), the warrant to be suspended so long as the debtor pays 10s a month, in default 11 days’ imprisonment. PIHAMA PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mr. W. J. Dickson is slowly improving in health. Mrs. E. L. Hall, who has been an inmate of the Kaponga hospital, is home again. Mrs. C. A. Radford returned home at the end of last week after visiting friends at Auckland. Mr. A. Walker has. been appointed acting secretary to the Pihama hall committee during the absence of the secretary, Mr. Haseltine, who is in the New Plymouth hospital. WHEELER-WOOLSEY AT HAWERA. “GIRL CRAZY” SEASON OPENS; If variety is the spice of life, R.K.O. Radio Pictures’ all-star rollicking comedy “Girl Crazy,” which will be shown at the Opera House matinee to-day, is a snappily seasoned entertainment dish. It offers mirth and melody, romance and action, beauty and atmosphere. Heading an imposing array of talent are the inimitable Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey; who start the film as city “slickers” and finish as rough and ready westerners.. In the cast are comedy stars, a child prodigy,, Broadway beauties, Hollywood cowboys, Mexican senoritas, two-gun men arid polished villains. The action shifts from city tenement to western ranch and Mexican resort.