COURT REPORTS.

Wairarapa Age, 7 April 1928, Page 6

COURT REPORTS.

FORTNIGHTLY SITTING IN MASTERTON. CRUELTY TO A HORSE. Mr. S. L. P. S.M., presided over the fortnightly sittings of the Magistrate’s Court in Masterton on 'l’hursday. George Fisher, for ill-treating a horse by working it while it was suffering from sore shoulders, pleaded guilty and was,fined £2 and 10s. costs. Sergeant Dyer said that he and Constable Johnson visited a paddock at the foot of Renall Street and there saw Fisher working a team of horses. They saw one horse suffering with a sore 4-in. by 3-in. on the left shoulder, and also another sore on the right shoulder. Both sores were raw, and the horse was not in a fit state to be worked. Fisher said that Reid, the owner, knew that the horse had a sore shoulder, but he had been instructed to work it. Ho said they had been treating the horse’s sores. The sack and collar produced showed marks from the sores. The horse was also in a very poor condition. John Henry Reid, the owner, was charged with permitting the horse to be worked while it was suffering from sore shoulders, and was fined £3 and 10s. costs. Defendant said that the horse was a bony one, and rather subject' 1 to sore shoulders. The sore had been treated by defendant. Defendant said the sores were not as large as stated by the sergeant. The instructions on the remedy used said that the horse should be worked while undergoing treatment. That made the cure more permanent when the sore did heal. BREACHES OF LICENSING LAWS. Adrian Walton Wilkins, licensee of th e Mori son ■’s Bush Hotel, was charged with selling liquor to Edward Flood and John Somers at a time when the hotel should be closed. Hamilton Millen, who served the liquor, was charged with supplying the liquor to Flood and Somers. Mr. B. H. Turton, who appeared for defendants, said the offence was committed on a night when a dance was being held at Morison’s Bush. Counsel asked that the license bo not endorsed, as a sale was pending. was fined £5 and 10s - costs, and Millen £lO and costs. The Magistrate said he would not endorse the hotel license. Edward Flood and John Somers were charged with being on the licensed premises of the Morison’s Bush Hotel during hours when the premises should be tl° S <. ed i. were further charged that they did aid and assist Hamilton Millen in committing an offence by selling liquor during a time when the hotel should be closed. After hearing the evidence of Constable Gregor, who met the men coming out of the hotel late at night with several bottles of beer, the Masristrate fined each defendant £1 and JOs.’ costs for being on licensed premises after in ti and 1 - Os : costs for ai ”ug Millen in the commission of an offence MAINTENANCE CASES Cecil Beaumont Cox, for being in arfnr 1 ,/ 0 the extent of £lB upon an order for the support of his wife, was sen tenced to 21 days’ imprisonment the warrant to be suspended so long as 32s 6d. a iieek is paid, being 30sJ current ™ aiatenance and 2s.' 6d. off the aril illiani Leonard James, for being in arrears to the extent of £52 3s. u»on nn order for the maintenance of his child to two months’ ment, the warrant to be suspended as long as defendant pays £1 p or week off 7rrear S . CUrrent mainte uance and 5./ Timothy Manion, for being in arrears ■to the extent of £l3 10s. upon an order for tho maintenance of his wife was the 'I/ C<l V 2 ? dayS ’ Imprisonment, the warrant to be suspended for seven days and thereafter if the amount is George McKinstry, for being in arrears to the extent of £2 10s. upon an order made for the maintenance of his muther, was sentenced to seven days’ I>ended on fo ent ’ th ° warrant to be suspinded for seven days and thereafter it the amount is paid. M ilfred B. J. Seymour was ordered Of i P?r / ™° ek towar(ls the support of his child, Mrs. Seymour to have ou s tody of the child. Seymour is now a ’osulent of Christchurch, and had already been ordered to pay £1 a week towards the support of his wife