SIXTY-TWO CASES.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 456, 18 May 1932, Page 8

SIXTY-TWO CASES.

Charges Laid Under the Unemployment Act. MAGISTRATE’S COURT. Sixty-two cases, many of them involving eight separate charges, and all laid under the Unemployment Act and its amendments, were disposed of in the Magistrate’s Court this morning. Mr H. P. La wry, S.M., was on the Bench. Forty-two of the defendants were Gold Band Taxi drivers, thirty-seven of whom were represented by one counsel. Counsel stated that the average wage of the men was under 30s a week and if they were fined heavily they would be unable to pay the fines. Two or three shillings was a considerable sum to the men. For failing to pay various instalments of the unemployment levies the following were dealt with:—Robert Gordon Arnott, fined 10s and costs on one charge, convicted and discharged on the second; Harold Walton Reck, 10s and costs on three charges, and convicted and discharged on a fourth; Frederick Harold Dry, 10s and costs on three, and convicted and discharged on a fourth; James Ingram Marriner, 10s and costs on three and convicted and discharged on two others; Arthur Lester. Martyn, 10s and costs on three and convicted and discharged on two others; Harry Pollock, £1 and costs on two and convicted and discharged on three others; David Clifford Carey, fined 10s and costs on one charge and convicted and discharged on five rthers; Maurice Stanley Percy Cliff, 10s and costs on one charge, and convicted and discharged on a second; Percival Andrew Mills, 5s and costs on one charge, and convicted and discharged on five other charges; Eric John Coates Askenbeclc, 10s and costs on four charges, and two others withdrawn; Malcolm Goss, 10s and costs on two charges, and convicted and discharged on four; and John William Mumford, 10s and costs on one charge and convicted on two others. Emergency Tax. For failing to pay the emergency wage tax the following were dealt with:—George Angus St Clair Eone, fined £1 and costs; and the following 5s and costs each: Ernest Silbey, Eric John Archey, Charles Atkinson, William John Bannan, David Clifford Carey, Maurice Stanley Percy Cliff, Harold Cole, Cyril Cullen, Charles Leonard Dickson, Maurice Ealam, Reginald William Edgar, Albert Gordon Fabian, lan Fraser, Roderick Fraser, Clifford Goodwin, Edward Hanrahan, Eric Michael Thomas Healey, Major Hood, Francis Jenner, George Edward Kirk, Raymond Milligan, Percival Andrew Mills, Ernest Laurence Muchmore, Albert Naisbett. David Newman, Norman Pilkington, Cecil Charles Rhodes, Alfred Roi, George Ross, Albert William Smith, Arthur Herbert Symons, Charles William Smith, James Edward Smith, Lawrence Robert Smith, William Allan Smith, Claude Victor, Harry Williams and David Williamson, jun. The following were dealt with for failing to register under the Unemployment Act:—David Clifford Carey, fined 10s and costs; Eric John Coates Askenbeck, convicted and ordered to pay costs only, and Malcolm Goss, fined 20s The following were fined £1 and costs for employing persons who had not paid their levies:—Clarence Daly, Walter Jonathan Scott and Harold Bradley. For failing to deduct the emergency unemployment charge from an employee, Robert Derrett was fined £2 and costs.