BULLS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20024, 17 December 1927, Page 2

BULLS

COURT NEWS [ Special ° Chronicle ” Service ] There was a brief sitting of the Magistrate’s Court on Friday morning, Messrs J. L. Stout, S.M., and L. M. Tavorner, J.P., presiding. Civil Cases On judgment summonses W. C. Erickson was ordered to pay S. Steer £3 6s 6d forthwith in default seven days’ iniprisonment at Wanganui gaol. I*. Hill was ordered to pay S. Steer £1 15s forthwith, in default three days’ imprisonment in the Wanganui gaol. J. Cole was ordered to pay V. Edhouse £l2 Ils 5d forthwith in default 14 days in Wanganui gaol, warrant to be suspended as long as defendant pays £1 per week, first payment by December 23. solicitor’s fee £1 Is. C. J". McDonell was ordered to pay Kingstonc Motors forthwith, in default 14 days in Wanganui gaol, £l5 15s 7d, warrant to be suspended so long as defendant pays £1 per month, first payment on February 24, 1928.

Judgment by default was given in the following cases:— Meads Bros. v. S. ►Sharp £l2 5s lid, court costs £1 10s, solicitor’s fee £1 Us; Nichol Bros. v. Bert Hobbs, £8 7s Bd, court costs 10s, solicitor’s fee ss. Motor Collision R. L. Henderson (Mr R. Mackay) claimed damages from G. Harvey (Mr C. Winfield) as the result of an alleged collision on the Bulls-Turakina Road, on November 2. Harold Victor Wood, kcrbsidc-pump superviser, Wanganui, was brought forward to give evidence for the plaintiff, and stated that on stopping to pick up some children, he was passed by a Ford car, which he followed for about a quarter of a mile, both being on the right hand side of the road to avoid the loose metal. Several times he alleged he sounded his horn to pass the defendant who did not move over to his correct side. Approaching a cottage on the Wanganui side of the factory, witness noticed a cyclist approaching and slowed up but the Ford kept on until it hit the machine. On pulling up, witness found the front wheel, on the left side of the car, on the cycle with a youth underneath and a man getting up off the road, the man’s hands and one knee being badly lacerated and his trousers torn. Witness told the driver to move back to allow the cyclist to be extricated from under his machine. Witness asked defendant why he had not put his hand out, the defendant replying that he thought the cyclist would see he was pulling up. Wood alleged that even had deefndant put his hand out at the last minute, the cyclist would not have had a chance to pull up. The cyclist had. made an attempt to get clear but had skidded in the loose metal near the crown of the road. Witness and defendant and his passenger were the only ones at the scene of the accident for several minutes, and the whole case seemed to witness carelessness on the part of the defendant.

Mr Winfield cross-examined witness, and the case was adjoined until January 27. PAKEWANUI SCHOOL The following is the list of prizes distributed at the breaking-up ceremony of the Parewanui School:— Standard Vll.—Rex. Homes. Standard Vl.—Vida Hocking (proficiency). Standard V. —Nopera Edward 1, John Holland 2, Eileen Murphy 3, Ernest Yardley and Reginald Bracken 4. Standard IV.—Saxton Young 1, William Tua 2. Standard lll.—Tamehana Rogers 1, Allan Young 2, Ira, Backen 3, Rihitihuia Rogers and Marjorie Tua 4. Standard ll.—Catherine Edward. Standard I.—John Klatt 1, Albert Klatt 2, Stanley Bracken 3, and Nolan Bracken 4. Primers. —Douglas Young, Hazel Young, Delphina Teki, Betty Young, Waki Warbrick, Leslie Bracken, William Bowen, Samuel Tua, William Apirana. Specials Mrs M. M. Munro’s prizes for needlework: Hazel Yeung and Vida Hocking. School Committee’s prizes for progress: William Bowen and Tamehana Rogers. Mr M. Munro’s special progress: Nopera Edward. Mr H. Bowen’s prizes for good conduct: Vida Hocking and Stanley Bracken. Mr C. H. Edwards’ special prizes for good conduct, John and Albert Klatt. Mr M. M. Munro’s special for perseverance: Ernest Yardley. TENNIS The Bulls Club will play (Palmerston North) to-day on the Bulls courts, and tho following are the local representatives: — Ladies: M ISS Wa P*. cr ’ Miss Wilson, Mrs Mansell, Miss Brookie, Mrs Ralfe and Mrs Carter. Men* D. McKenzie, C. W. Farrer, D. Walker, W. S. Montgomery, L. <W cr > and B. Henderson. Emergencies: Miss M. Green and Mrs Farrer. Messrs R. Mansell and P. Ralfe Play commences at 1-30 sharp. BILLY BEVAN IN “EASY PICKINGS” If what all these picture producers and directors say about comedies being the best training school for film actors is true, Billy Bevan, featured in “Easy Pickings” ought to be a finished thespian. Bevan makes his debut in straight drama in this crook play, starring Anna Q. Nilsson, after years’ of slapstick comedies. Bevan is the little rourud-faced man whose brown derby and walrus moustache are known wherever celluloid is transferred to the screen. The ex-comedian plays the part of a dumbell detective in “Easy Pickings” at Bulls to-night. Mr D. J. do Roux, who with his wife is walking around the world and pishing a wheel barrow, will give an entertaining discourse at 8.30 on then travels since they left South Africa in 1922.