Magistrate’s Court Sitting

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 12, Issue 19, 6 February 1948, Page 5

Magistrate’s Court Sitting

No Serious Grimes On Unusually Light List There were no serious crimes on an unusually light police list that faced Mr E. L. Walton S.M. »,t the monthly sitting of the Magistrate’s Court at Whakatane on Tuesday. The civil list was also a short one, and no defend- * ed cases were heard. A seventeen-year-old youth, whose name was suppressed, pleaded guilty to having stolen a .22 rifle valued at.£s 10s, and was admitted to probation for six months, on condition .that he restore the value of the weapon to its owner. John William Humby, charged with “casting offensive matter” in a shop doorway in the Strand on the night of December 6 last, did not appear, and was fined £3, costs 12s. Illegal Liquor

Reuben Taylor, a Maori, was fined £2 and costs 21s for aiding or assisting some person unknown in the supply of liquor to himself, a native. On Christmas Eve, Constable R. F. Julian saw Taylor produce a parcel containing 11 bottles of beer from under some bushes in a vacant section off Clifton Road. Traffic Offences James Riini, bus driver, pleaded guilty to having failed to give way to traffic from the right at the intersection of Commerce Street and Domain Road. He was fined £2, costs 245. Sergeant A. B. Collinge, for the Police, explained that the bus had struck a cyclist, who had been injured. Osborne Donovan Garaway, linesman, admitted a charge of driving a Government van without due care and attention at Thornton on October 14 last. Sergeant Collinge said defendant had been looking for a fault in the lines on the right of the road, and drifted to the wrong side and collided with another vehicle. Garaway was fined 10s, costs 12s.

Wandering Stock For allowing stock to wander on roads in the Matata district a num- # ber of offenders incurred small fines. They were: Clyde Fraser, fined £1 and costs 31s; Richard Maitai, 30s and 31s; Lawrence Raureti, £1 and 30s; Johnson Waretini, £1 and 275; Rose A. Wetherill, 30s and 225; Brian Chayter, £1 and 225. Meat Rationing Breach

A breach of the meat rationing regulations, failure to weigh and mark carcases of meat, cost Max Hunt, Edgecumbe butcher, a £2 fine and 22s costs. Mr G. Otley represented the defendant and admitted the offence. Sergeant Collinge said the Department asked for a conviction as a warning to others.

Debt Judgments Judgment for plaintiffs by default was given in the following civil claims: Hall and Stewart v E. H. King, £2O Os 6d, costs £4 16s 6d; J. S, Wells v Ronald T. Sims, £4 12s 6d, costs 29s 6d; N. B. Rigden and Co. Ltd. v A. A. Reid, £lO 12s lid, costs £2 17s; v Geo. Hirini, £6 4s Id, costs £1 17s 6d; v John Keepa, £2 13s 3d, costs £1 19s 6d; M. J. Dunderdale v A. N. Raynor, £5, costs £1 5s 6d; Patterson’s Home Furnishers v H. Fraser, £3 18s, costs £1 18s 6d; Whitworth v T. Kaiwhata, £3 3s, costs £1 18s; C. F. Eivers v I. Rameka, £25, costs £4 6s. Judgment summons orders: Harai Thompson to pay Margaret Gallagher £l6 14s Bd, in default 16 days’ gaol; K. T. Rangihika to pay the Family Meat Co. Ltd. £22 5s 9d, in default 22 days’ gaol.