MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18788, 18 June 1929, Page 11

MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

CHRISTCHURCH. (Before Mr E. C. Levvey, S.M.) DRUNKENNESS. For drunkenness, Mary Ann Windsor was fined 20s and costs, in default seven days’ imprisonment. A REMAND. Charged with breaking and entering a house at Grey Lynn with intent to commit a crime, Ivan Major Martin Illing was remanded to appear at Auckland. UNREGISTERED FIREARM. For being in possession of an unregistered .32 revolver, Agnes Boyce was fined 20s and costs. On a second similar charge she was ordered to pay costs only. CIVIL COURT. (Before Mr 11. A. Young, S.M.) Judgment by default was entered for plaintiff in the following undefended civil cases:—Henry Bastin v. Mrs M. Henry, £3 2s 3d; William Robert Heney. John Saunders and Thomas Milliken. trustees in the assigned estate of John Brown, trading as J. and T. Brown and Son, v. J. H. Stephenson, £2 10s; H.M. the King and the State Advances Superintendent v. Leslie Michael Campbell, £l4 6s lid; Para Rubber Co., Ltd. v. S. H. Smedley, £lO 6s; F. Lill v. F. G. Gibbs, £l3 4s; Fox, Chivers, Ltd. v. Robert Macdonald Hempseed, £2B 7s 3d; C. E. Otley, Ltd. v. F. Ilill, 11s 3d; J. H. Merrie v. Bertram Smithers, £5 ss; A. S. Watkins, as assignee of S. F. Pyne and Co., v. B. Edwards, £7 10s; George Boon v. F. Lewis. £lO 18s 7d; Trade Auxiliary Co. of New Zealand, Ltd. v. A. K. Brooker. £ls 0s 6d; Warre, Hockley and Co., Ltd. v. L. W. Austin, £3 2s 6d; The Earthenware Drain Pipe Co. v. J. Lynch, £24 18s od; F. E. Longdin v. M. Stuart. 15s; F. E. Longdin v. Charles Atkinson, £3 12s 6d; W. H. Tisdall, Ltd. v. P. Mitchell, £9 Is 2d; W. H. Tisdall, Ltd. v. C-. E. Spurgeon, £3 3s lOd; The Mercantile Finance Corporation, Ltd. v. C. Gutchlag, £l6 10s 6d; Mason, Struthers and Co., Ltd. v. Percival C. Bowater, £5 9s lid; Mason, Struthers, and Co., Ltd. v. Thomas M’Hale, £5 12s lOd; Booth, M’Donald and Co.. Ltd. v. A. Dickie, £2 13s; White Diamond Taxis, Ltd. v. N. S. Nevatt, £l2 10s; W. Bowman v. N. M’Millan, £4B 2s 6d; W. H. Went, trading as Went’s Commercial Garage, v. E. Skeen, £1 4s 9d; Massey Harris and Co., Ltd. v. Robert King, £l2 15s lOd; Louisa Mitchinson v. A. F. Graham, £18; J. Hollander and Sons, Ltd. v. Fairweathers. Ltd., costs only; A, J. \\ hite, Ltd. v. S. Jones, 17s 9d; A. J. White, Ltd. v. J. C. Cockburn, £5 2s Id; Graham, Wilson and Smellie John Foster, £7 11s lOd; Harper, Danks, Ltd. v. J. M’Clintock, £l3 16s sd; C. Oldman v. Alice Prince, £1; The Earthenware Drain Pipe Co. v. George Flint, £146 14s lid; Marion Edwards ▼. Malcolm Lean. £lO 10s; Robert May ▼. Henry Franklin Wootton, £1 15s. (Before Mr E. C. Levvey, S.M.) DEFENDED CASES. G. H. Knight and Co., of Christchurch, advertising agents (Mr Bowie) claimed the sum of £l4 15s from E. Bolland, of Christchurch, a canvasser. The statement read as follows:—(1) Moneys of the. plaintiff fraudulently converted by the defendant to his own use on divers dates, totalling £2 15s; (2; on divers occasions in 1929 the defendant fraudulently represented that he had obtained contracts for the company whereby damage amounting to £l2 was suffered.

The defendant counterclaimed for £lo 12s as balance of wages allegedly due to him.

After hearing the evidence the Magistrate. gave judgment for the plaintiff for the full amount, plus costs.