WAIMATE.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 17945, 2 May 1928, Page 16

WAIMATE.

(From Qur Own Correspondent.) MAGISTRATE’S COURT. At the fortnightly sitting of the Waimate Magistrate’s Cout, held yesterday, Messrs d’A. Stanley Grut and C. Coventry, J.P’s., were oil the Bench. CIVIL CASES. Judgment for plaintiff by default was given in the following undefended civil cases :—Waimate Borough Council v. Fanny Louisa Hollamby (separate estate) claim £5 10s, Court costs 3s Id, solicitor’s fee £1 6s; same v. F. Js Pollard, claim £2 3s 5d costs £2 ISs, solicitor’s fee £1 6s; R. Moore v. P. Cronin, claim £6 19s 6d. costs 19s, solicitor’s fee 15s 6d; Vniiiam/ McPherson v. M. Healey, £ll 15s, costs £1 6s, solicitor’s ice Li Xfsj Ghaham and Clear v. N. Iregon.ng, claim £2 3s lid, costs Bs, solicitor s fee 15s 6d; P. V. Stevens v. H. Gray, claim £8 10s, costs 15s, solicitor s iee 15s 6d ■ W. B. Freeman v. H. Gay, claim £5 Bs, co'Slts. 15s, solicitor s fee 15s 6d. fire. The Waimate County Council’s lorry caught fire in the Council yard yesterday Fortunately, the lorry was equipped with a fire extinguisher, and the fire was restricted to the cab a oum Aii alarm was given, and the \\ annate Volunteer Fire Brigade was quickly on the scene, and completed the suppression of the fire. It is understood that ■iltliomdi the cab suffered somewhat, no damage was done to . the engine ]t is surmised that water r-mqi'd the engine to back-tnt, ana that this was the primary cause of tlio outbreak.