MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 161, 27 March 1918, Page 5

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

POLICE AND CIVIL CASES.

Mr. S. E M'Carthy, S.M., presided at tho.Magistrate's Court yesterday aud dealt with the police and civil cases. A young named William Lees, a seaman on board an oversea vessel, wait charged with being absent from his ship without leave. The lad went _to the police station on Monday evening and reported that he had missed his vessel, which had sailed. It was stated that the steamer was on the Now Zealand coast and would return to Wellington. Lees was convicted and or. dnred to come up for sentence when called upon, and is to report to the police each morning at S o'clock until the. vessel returns. An elderly woman, convicted of drunkenness, her first offence, was ordered to come up for sentence when called upon, on condition that sho became aiv inmntn of the Salvation Army Home for a noriod of six months. Another first offender was fined 205., in default 48 hours' imprisonment.

CIVIL CASES Judgment was given for plaintiff by default in' the following cases:—John Hicks (trading as tbo Miramar Supply Stores) v. Thomas Gunter, £2 6s. 5d., costs 145.; Waterworth, Ltd., v. John L." Scott, £1 16s. 6d.. costs os.; N.Z. Pictures Supplies, Ltd., v. E. A. Williams, £40 25., costs £2 145.; it. Stent and Co. v. G. Tullock, £16, costs 30s. 6d.; Laery and Co., Ltd., v. George Swanson, £2 16s. 10d., costs 175.; Inglis Bros, and Co.. Ltd., v. F.

,' ..dting, £1 2s. Id., costs 55.; A. R. His'.np, Ltd., v. Wanganui Cool Storage and Bacon Co., Ltd., £51 6s. Bd., costs, £3 los.; Speucer G. Radford v. Fitzgerald Clark, £46 os. 10d., costs £3 6s. i Inglis Bros, and Co., Ltd., v. Headland and Robinson, £22 19s. 4d., costs £1 35.; Taylor and Brown v. Thomas.F. Parker. £2 16s. Id., costs 125.; B. L. Hart and Co. v. G. E. Blake and Co.. £34 7s. 2d., costs, £2 145.; Sing On Tie v. J. W. Hope. £1!) os. 6d„ costs £1 lis. 6d.; City Council v. Jessamine Craighead, £5 ss. 4d., costs 10s.

JUDGMENT SUMMONS. In a judgment summons case W. Thompson was ordered to pay the Scoullar Co., Ltd., £2 10s. 9d. forthwith, in default seven days' imprisonment.

' BREACH OF AN AWARD. The Inspector of Awards (Mr. R. T. Bailey) proceeded against J. M'Parland, licensee of the Hotel Cecil for a. breach of the Wellington Hotel Workers' Award, in that he engaged two assistants without making application to the secretary of ,the union as required by tho award. A second action was brought against M'Parland for failing to haw posted up a statement of "his employees' holidays. In _ each case a penalty of £10 was claimed. Mr. A. W. Blair, who appeared for the defendant, admitted both breaches, and judgment was accordingly given for plaintiff for £2.