MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3179, 1 September 1917, Page 12

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

POLIOE casks. Mr. li. G. Eeid, H.M., presided over .yesterday's'sitting of the Magistrates Court. Emily Foster, who had been three times previously convicted within six months, was fined 20s. for drunkenness. ..His Worship ordered her to lie prohibited from obtaining liquor. Joseph. Dossoflbach (with a similar record for the past six months) and Thomas Elliott (with one previous conviction ovor tho same period) were similarly dealt with. . Sing OuKeo, a Chinaman in business in Wellington, was convicted of giving a faleo certificate on goods consigned from ihoindoii to Levin. It appeared that .he had sent confectionery to i-evin under the description of "New Zealand-grown fault, and had paid the lower rates charged for the conveyance of that commodity, ills Worship fined the defendant 205., with costs £2 lis. . . 1n Walter Person Jackson was, lined ills, and costs for being on licensed premises during prohibited hours. James Charles Burberry pleaded gcll> to a charge of falsely dcscribi-ng a trade mark. Chief Detective Boddam said that a" bottle of "Flu-mint" purchased, at tic defendant's shop was enclosed in a tnci - lYr with the trade-mark "Flu-mint, rcg »- tfred" As a matter of fact, the trademark was not registered in the Patents Office id Wellington. Tile case was brought simply as a warning that one could not use as registered a, mark that was not registered Mr. J. 6. Barton, on behalf of the defendant, remarked that his client was not the proprietor of tho medicine. His Worship imposed a line oS %£*A Pay and AT.O. Wilkinson were each" fined 55., and costs for allowing stock to wander For similar offences, E. Boulton, D. Greig, G. Jont?, W. Staco,.and Q, Pearson were ordered to pay costs. '' IMPROPER SOAI/ES. Tho Inspector of Weights and Measures proseemted in four cases. Joseph Gruer and Yen.Cheong Wing and Co. were charged with having machines that were not stamped as required by the Act. ' The inspector stated that the scales in each case weighed coifectly. Defendants wore each lined 10s. and costs. , , . , „„,i, P Bolers had scales, which were made to iveifih up to S6lh.. and upon which the indications from 161b. upwards were missing. Tho charge was that the scales 'vore false and unjust. Defendant eontended that he never used 'the machine to weigh anything over 161b.. and that fto absence of the higher figures from tho dial was immaterial. A fine of 10s. ami costs was imposed. . '. A chargo of having a machine that iias false and unjust was preferred against the Stewart Timber Company also. Mr Hislop for the defendants, indicated that the defence would be a plea of ignorance. The company had reason to believe that the machine was in proper order. H Worship remarked that the case did not seem to call for a fine, as it appeared to have Arisen out of inadvertence. On Mr. Slop's application nn adjournment was granted to permit of further evidence for the defence being called.