MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21416, 7 March 1935, Page 21

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

♦ WEDNESDAY 1 Before Mr H. P. La wry. S.Mj UNLICENSED WIRELESS SETS Owners of unlicensed wireless sets were dealt with as follows:—John foster, fined 30s and ordered to pay costs; Frank John Jenner, James Clapton East. Francis Gordon Fisher, Richard John Eot.hwcll, fined £1 and ordered to pay costs; Patrick Joseph Kelleher lined 15s and ordered to pay costs; Elizabeth Gilbert. Cuthbert Noel Hamilton, Arthur Edward Byron, Gwendoline Kirkness, fined 10s and ordered to pay costs; Arthur Francis Staccy, fined 7s 6d and ordered to pay costs; Alfred Bruce, Sydney Cannard. LanccloGt McEvedy. John B. Pearson. Alfred George Webb, lined 5 s and ordered to pay costs; Vera Pcarce Round, ordered "to pay costs. TWO CHARGES Edward Alexander Albert Hill was :n;ed 5s and was ordered to pay costs K;j employing an assistant after 1 o'clock on a statutory half-holiday. On a charge of failing to close his shop on a statutory half-holiday HiU was ordered to pay costs. KAIAPOI ■Before Mr E. D. Mosley, S.M.i L. F. McMenamin and A. A. Maci'arlane, on charges of driving motorcars on the Main North road at speeds which might have been dangerous to the public, were each lined £2 and ordered to pay costs. A. K. Hawkey, on a charge of driving a motor-cycle at a dangerous speed, was fined £2 and ordered to pay costs.

C. C. J. Driscoll. charged with pro- | curing liquor during the currency of i a prohibition order, was fined £2 and | ordered to pay costs. | W. T. Henry, for driving a motor--1 truck in a manner which might have : been dangerous to the public, was ; fined 20s and ordered to pay costs. S. T. Granger, on a charge of negli- ■ gently driving a motor-car on the ' Main North road, was fined 20s. H. J. Baker, charged with driving a motor-car on the Main North road at ' a dangerous speed, was fined 10s and j ordered to pay costs, and for driving ; a motor-car without a driver's license he was fined 10s. ' E. H. Byron, for driving a motor- | cycle without holding a driver's ) license, was fined ss. ! W. R. May. charged with disobedience of a maintenance order, being in j arrears £2O. was convicted and senI tenced to six months' imprisonment, | to be released on payment of the ar- ; rears < £2O) and costs. : CIVIL CASE Judgment for plaintiffs by default ' was given in W. M. Taituha, Mere ; Taituha. and Ruifa Karaitiana v. C. C. i Robertson. The claim was for £lB.