MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 16904, 29 November 1920, Page 3

MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

CIVIL BUSINESS. In the Magistrate’s Court at New iPlymouth this morning, before Air. T._ A. B. Bailey, S.M., judgment for plaintiff by default was given in the following underfended cases: —Joseph Lawn (Mr. A. A. Bennett) v. Morangi, £3B 3s did (costs £5 8s); H. Haddock (Air. R. H. Qullliam) v. R. N. Heppell, £143 13s Id (costs £7 Is 9d). Orders were made as follow under judgment summonses: —A. R. V. Trueman, at the suit of the estate of Annie AVright, to pay the sum of £9 16s forthwith, in default 10 days imprisonment; Thomas Duf&n, at the suit of L. A. Nolan, to pay £4 11s 6d forthwith, in default five days” imprisonment; George V. Martin, at the suit of T. P. Hughson and Son, to pay £4 17s on or before December 4, m default five days’ imprisonment, and, at the suit of Hughson’s, Ltd., to pay the sum of £3 4s, in default three'days’ imprisonment, the warrants to be suspended provided the debtor paid the amounts at the rate of 10s per fortnight. TENEMENT CASES. "Wm. Barnett (Mr. R. H. Quilliam), custodian of the New Plymouth Golf Club, whose engagement entitled him to the occupancy of the cottage on the golf links, applied for an order for possession! of a house of his own occupied by B. Stone (Mr. A. A. Bennett) his tenancy of the golf house having been defer mined by reason of his employment with the club having terminated by his resignation, and the cottage required by his successor. After hearing the evi. dence the Court made an order for possession in three weeks. W. J. Wilkie (Air. Quilliam) applied for an order for possession of a dwelling occupied by David James on the ground of rent being in arrears to.the" extent of £25 11s 9d. An order for possession in ten days was made. RESERVED DECISION. In the case of Eairbrother and Pickering v, Kaspar, a claim for commission on the sale of a farm ■ at Rahotu, the Magistrate gave Jiis reserved 1 decision in favour of plaintiff for the full amount claimed (£120), expressing the opinion that it was through the_ property being brought under the notice of the purchaser by plaintiffs that a sale was ultimately effected. Costs were allowed according to scale. Air. A. A. Bennett appeared for plaintiff and Mr. T. P. Anderson for defendant.