MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21409, 27 February 1935, Page 9

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

TUESDAY • .Before Mr E- D - Mosley, S.M.) license cancelled George William Morris, aged 35, a fruiterer, of Lincoln road <Mr D. W. «usseD>. Pleaded guilty to a charge of being intoxicated while in charge of , car in Licluiold street. Mr Resell, in .-.sking that accused 3 Vc'ense should be endorsed instead of anccllPd said that accused had not been a menace on the road but only a potential menace, as he was unable to start his c-r _ •The only question I am considering i« whether'l should send him to gaol," ,aid the magistrate. "He has admitted having four beers and live fc.vuie-- There have been eight of & case, in im- last month, a,id Xv musi be stopped. It. is a quesToii whether the court should not say: 'lf a man is chunk in charge oi a cathe mil?' (5° to gaol V' Morris was lined £lO and was ordred to pav hi default of payLent within 14 days, a month's imprisonment with hard labour His license was ordered to be cancelled. MAINTENANCE CASE

For failing to comply with the terms nf a maintenance order in respect to his wife, John McLean (Mr R. A. y oun gj was sentenced to one month s imprisonment. The issue of the warrant wa» ordered to be suspended so ions as defendant kept up the current order and arrears at the rate of 5s u week PROBATION Waller Albert Speer and Walter Bell, who were represented by Mr R. A Young, appeared for sentence on i-harr'es of theft. Speer was charged with the theft, on July 0. 1934, of a wireless set valued at .Clfi 15s, th ? property of A. R Harris and Company, Ltd.. and with the theft on July 19 of books valued at £2 fls (id. the property of L. C. M. Saunders. Bel! was charged with the Iheft on .Tune 27 of an overcoat valued at £4 15s. the properly of D. S. Symc. Chief-Detective W. 11. Dunlop said t'nat the cases had been adjourned sine ciie pending the sentence of the Supreme Court on charges of breaking and entering. The accused had now been admitted to probation for 12 months The magistrate said he would follow Ine course adopted in the Supreme Court. Both accused would be admitted to probation for 12 months, to begin on the expiration of the period imposed by the Supreme Court on Monday.

CIVIL COURT (Before Mr 11. A. Young, S.M.) JUDGMENTS BY DEFAULT Judgment for plaintifT by default va.s entered in each of the following cases:--G. MeClatehie and Company. Ltd., v. J. H. Merrie. £8 S's !'d; J. Dmvhng v. J. Jenkins. £"•"> 0s lOd; Nestle and Anglo Swiss Condensed Milk C"mp'inv lAust.i, Ltd.. v. R. 1). Wittv, f;4 10 s lid; (J. E. I'atton v. J. Brodle. £4 0 s 9d: A. E. Orange v. Leo Brimie, IDs; Supply Stores. Ltd., v. C. Mark.. £1 5s 8d; R. T. Cowper v. C. Pitcher. £1 Is Gd: same v. B. Kirk. £1 15s: Christcllurch City Council v. Daniel James McCallum, £5 15s £d; Christchurch Press Company, Ltd., v. Frank McClelland, £4 7s: McWhanneli and Spanjer v. J. Ritchie, trading as Ritchie's Hardware Store. £3 Is 3d; P. Feron and Son, Ltd.. v. W. J. McKay, £6 5s lid; H. C. Urlwin, Ltd., v. F. Williamson, fid: Maling and Company, Ltd., v. R. Gilroy. £2O 7a 9d; same v. Fred. Eraser. £.i2 fJs 3d; John Henry Jones v. G. R. Poulson, £5 8s 6d and order Jor possession. DEFENDED ACTION Dominion Publications, Ltd.. pub-l.iJiL-rs, of Christchurch (Mr C. G Penlington), claimed £4 5s from F. V, r . S'.pvcns. 77 Hiinu ;t.eet, Riecarton, chemist iMr A. B. Hobbs), -as being allegedly due for advertising in the May issue of the New Zealand 'Home Journal."

Judgment was given for plaintifT for £2 2s 6d. No order was made for costs. (Before Mr 11. P. L»wry, S.M.) JUDGMENT FOR PLAINTIFF A. V. Voyce (Mr D. W. Russell) claimed from the Christchurch Car Exchange, Ltd. (Mr K. G. Archer), the sum of £l3 Bs, being return of deposit on purchase of a Citroen car and expenses £3 Bs. Judgment was ©ven for the plaintiff for the sum of *5 13s and costs.