CAMBRIDGE DISTRICT.

Waikato Times, Volume 114, Issue 19051, 15 September 1933, Page 8

CAMBRIDGE DISTRICT.

ITEMS OF INTEREST. --5 MAGISTRATE’S COURT. 1 A LENGTHY SITTING. The September sitting- or the Cambrldgo Magistrate’s Court was held yesterday morning before Mr S. L. Patterson, S.M.* Prohibition Breach. A rharge of breaking ills prohibition order was preferred against Herbert Wall, of Cambridge. The police stated that the accused was In the hahit of going to Hamilton on drinking houts and he was neglecting his family. He was convicted and fined £2 with costs 12s in default •seven days’ imprisonment. Unlicensed Car. For using a car on the Hamilton* Cambridge Road without a proper license and with having attached a wrongly assigned number plate, James Stuart, was fined" £ 1 on each charge, with costs £1 2 s. Heavy Traffic Breaches. Inspector R. Metcaire for the Walpi County Council charged Arthur John Andrews, of Rotorua, with exceeding the speed limit for heavy motor-lorries on the Hamllton-Cambridge Road on August 3. The charge showed that the maximum speed for a class E vehicle Is 25 miles per hour. Edmund Carlquist, of Rotorua, was similarly charged. Mr W. King, or Hamilton, appeared Tor both defendants and entered a plea or not guilty. Plain-i tiff said both lorries were travelling to* gether and he tested the speed at 32 miles F per hour. - The defendant, Andrews, said they lert Auckland at 2 p.in. and were scheduled to reach Rotorua at 10.30 p.m. The magistrate said he could not be* lieve that defendants travelled from Auckland to Rotorua in eight hours without exceeding the speed limit. Both defend-' ants were fined £2 and costs 12s. Poisoning of Pigs. Jas. Niven Todd, farmer, or Taotaoros* was charged with causing unnecessary suffering oil July 16, to six pigs, the property or F. Docherty, a neighbouringTarmer. ... In reviewing the case the magistrate traced the evidence given at the August sitting of the Court, in which it was shown that defendant laid poison for tna pigs which frequently strayed on to his property, thereby causing damage. The poison was eaten by the pigs which subsequently died. Delivering Ills reserved! Judgment, the magistrate said he was unable to find that the action of the defendant caused the pigs any suffering ana the prosecution failed on this ground. Ha was further of the opinion that defendant did believe that the phosphorus'-poison used would not cause suffering, and therefore he did not have a guilty , n “ n s; On this ground defendant was entitled to an acquittal. The magistrate was satis* fled that the defendant took all precau* tlons to notiry the owner or the straying propensities or the pigs and of the damage caused to defendant’s property. Failure to Kill Rabbits.

The Inspector of the Waikato Central Rabbit Board, charged the following farmers In the board’s area with failing to destroy rabbits arter having sent to them the necessary notices: Ernest Ricnara Lee (Roto-o-rangi). Oliver Samuel Shale (Roto-o-rangi). Arthur Finlay (Horahora). The charges referred to various dates rrorn July 10 to 19, under Section 7 of the Rabbit Nuisance Act. Ernest R. Lee pleaded not guilty and was defended by Mr S. Lewis, the plaintiff being represented by Mr D. J. London. The inspector said be made the usual inspection or Lee’s property and up to August 2, found no signs or f resll laid nor new borrows filled In. Further Inspections were made with m e o m . b{ jL s the board and on August 14 -. . h ®J al information. The inspector said the countrv was easy to keep clean. | Evidence was given by T. Preece an j w Peake, members or the board ana r’ i Morriss, Government stock inspector, that they had inspected the property and saw no signs of poison and rabbits were plentiful. Defendant said be had killed all the rabbits be could. Those left wouia not take poison and he fumigated and filled in the burrows. He had applied unemployed labour but the men did nol turn up. until September 12. j The magistrate said he was satisfied tint nothing had been’ done since the nof iat Iv as served Defendant had ignored demand;? toTavo the work. carried out A fine or £2 with 12s costs and kg solicitor’s fie was imposed.

Charges Dismissed. Oliver Samuel Shale, owner or two properties also pleaded not guilty and .was de The led m b agis'trat N e 'sat'd he was satisfied Ws t abmty ,d and no'corrvlctlon* was entered. Arthur Finlay also pleaded not guilty j represented by Mr W. Klny» of ia"r.v r,.—.™™ K, pi r*s sukk "mSlaTelf" lSa ’“AwS pol“rs