MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 98, 19 January 1921, Page 3

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

FRACTIOUS STEWARDS SIX WEEKS WITHOUT LIQUOR Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., dealt with the •police cases at the Magistrate's Court .yesterday. May Gibbons was charged with 'being ifound- helplessly drunk in Cuba Street on January 2, drunk in Cambridge Terrace on January 17, also with damaging a window valued at 7s. (>d., the property •of the New Zealand Government, and further with being an incorrigible rogue, in that she possessed insufficient lawful means of support. Sub-Inspector V.’illis stated that the woman was arrested on January 2, and remanded for a veek. .She was detained nt Point Halswcll and escaped from there. She was not arrested until the previous day, when she was again apprehended for drunkenness. There were 81 previous convictions. She was sentenced to two years’ reformative •treatment. George Harrington Dench pleaded guilty to the theft of a lady’s raincoat valued at £5. Dench, who was drunk, went into a boardinghouse and walked away with the coat. He was seen by a boarder, who followed him, ond he was eventually arrested. On this charge he was sentenced to a month’s imprisonment. On a further charge of drunkenness he was fined 205., in default seven days’ imprisonment. For drunkenness, Frederick Joseph Nicholson, against whom there was one previous conviction, was fined 10s., in default 48 hours’ imprisonment, and one first offender forfeited his 'bail of 10s. Patrick Gubbins was charged with drunkenness, with trespassing on his wife’s property, also with assaulting Jane Elizabeth 'Wells. It was shown in the evidence that Mrs. Gubbins had agreed to do. some washing for accused, and that entitled him to be on the premises. On this charge he was convicted and discharged. For drunkenness he was fined 10s., in default 48 hours, and for assaulting the woman Wells he was sentenced to seven days’ imprisonment. Leslie Simmonds, "Walter Deer, and Albert George Richardson, three stewards on the as. Pakeha, which arrived in port on Sunday, went ashore on Monday, entered an hotel, and got into trouble. The three men were defended 'by Mr. J. F. B. Stevenson, who said that the vessel brought out immigrants and was a dry ship. Fot six weeks the men had no liquor, and probably when they did drink the liquor had a greater effect than it otherwise would have had. Deer, it was pointed out, was not drunk, and his efforts were in the direction of trying to pacify the others. He, however, did resist Sergeant Martin and Constable Healey, and was fined 20s. Simmonds, for assaulting the two police, officers, was sent to prison for a month, and was convicted and discharged on three other charges. Richardson was fined £5 for using obscene language, and a similar fine was imposed on him for obstructing Sergeant Martin and Constable ■ Healey. He. was convicted and discharged on two other minor charges. CIVIL CASES Mr. W. G. Riddell, S.M., dealt with the civil cases and gave judgment for plaintiff by default in the following:— Harry Baker v. W. O’Halloran, £5 155., costs £1 7s. 6d.; W. W. White v. H. L. Garland, £2B 18s. 3d., costs £3 55.; Casey Bros. v. John R. Welsby, £23 15s. 3d., costs £3 25.; G. H. Thornton and Co. v. Lum Kee, .£l5 55., costs £2 145.; G. W. Slade, Ltd., v. Herbert A. Jones, £2 25., costs £1 3s. 6d.; same v. C. T. Natusch, £2 12s. 6d., costs £1 3s. 6d.: C. S. Russell v. J. Barber, £2. 10s., costs- £1 6s. 6d.; British General Electric Co., Ltd., v. V. A. and B. C. Ryder, £l4 ss. lid., costs £4 6s. 6d.; Derbyshires (N.Z.) Ltd. v. W. Mason £1 35., costs £1 13s. 6d.; Edward Stephens v. 11. A. Ross and Lilian Ross, £l7 os. 10d., costs £3 155.; British General Electric Co. Ltd. v. J. H. Whetton, £24 16s 3d., costs £3 Is.; W. W. -Martin v. Edward Hill, £4 19- <kl-» costs' £1 3s. 6d.; James Smith Ltd. v. Norman J. Thomas, £5 16s. 6d., costs £1 10s. fid.; George Pudney v. Myrtle Tyack, £-•«■’ costs £1 3s. Gd.; Osmond and feon (N.Z.) Ltd v. E. C. Cavanagh, £3,35., costs £1 ss. Gd.; same v. A. Bishop, £2 65., costs £1 IQs 6d.; N-Z. Automatic Bakeries v. D Tonkins, 19s. 2d., costs 95.; same v. N. W. Meech, £3 10s. Id., costs £1 4s. fid ; same v. Emma Meech, £1 19s-, costs Bs ; (Mrs.) M. J. M'Leod v.'Charles Lawton, 13s. Gd., costs 10s.; Arthur and Hubert Hoby v. J. O’Leary, £2 0s 6d., costs 3s. 6d.; Dominion Mercantile Agency Ltd v. Alan Odium, £3 Ids., costs £1 3s. fid.; - H. Baker v. J. Bxggs, 10 s., costs Ils.; Thompson Bros. Ltd., y. H. (%. Olliver, <£ls 12s. costs «£2 Its • W. Hannafin v. J. Thompson, £9B Is. 6d costs £5 9s; Rouse, M'Donald Co., Ltd., v. F. J. Price, £lB 4e. lid., costs £2 175.; Reginald Collins, Ltd., v. W. H. Bowman, £5 2s. Bd., costs £1 13s. 6d.; Gaudin, Marr Ltd., v. Avery Bros., £l2 45., costs £2 145.; H. Leitch v. J. Kernahan, £3 18s. 6d., costs £1 19s. 6d.; F. J. Embury v. Thomas P. Greer, £1 os. 2d., costs 35.; David Mason v. James O’Connor, £8 10s., costs £1 14s. 6d.; W. Booth and Co., Ltd., v. P. Stocking, £l7 3s. 4d., costs £2 155.; W. J. Scammell and W. F. Thompson v. J. B. Moir, 7s. Gd, costs Bs.; same v. Harry Wiggins, Bs. costs only; J. Dillon v. Duncan Bell, £3 19s. Id., costs £1 7s. 6d.; Miss E. Marney v. George Hayden, £1 195., costa 135.; W. Littlejohn and Son, Ltd., v. J. Ray, £2 155., costs £1 ss. 6d.; E. C. Chilcott v. T. Green, 12s. 6d., costs 95.; F. Yeats v. W. J. Stevens, £6 75., costs £1 Is; Hope, Gibbons, Sons, and J. B. Clarkson, Ltd., v. Glenville and Sellars, £3l 6s. lid., costs, £1 10s.; Dominion Ferrolith Co., Ltd., v. Thomas J. Brisk, £77 Bs.. costs £4 13s. 6d. On judgment summonses, G. A. Curran was ordered to pay Hallenstein Bros., Ltd., £6 19s. 6d. by February 1, in default five days’ imprisonment; J. H. Uru to pay F. D. Kesteven £94 17s. by February 18, in default a month’s imprisonment; H. G. M'Leod to pay A. J. Vidal and Son £3 17s. 6d. by February 1, or serve three days’ in gaol; N. E t Page to pay the British Imperial Oil Co. £!&“&. 3d. by February 1, or to go to gaol for ten days. CLAIM FOR REFUND OF DEPOSIT. Harry Kahn (Mr. W. J. M'Eldowney) claimed from Herbert Stuart Cook (Mr. C. A. L. Treadwell) a refund of a deposit of £5O in respect to the purchase of a house in Koniai Street, Hataitai. The plaintiff alleged that the defendant, or his agent, had misrepresented that the house was sound and in good order, whereas the plaintiff alleged that some of the outside boarding waa unsound and that as a result of the subsidence of part of the ground certain portions of the house had been weakened. . An agreement had been made, according to the plaintiff, whereby the matter was to be adjusted if the place were resold, and the defendant placed in as good a position as he had preriosipty occupied. A resale was effected, but the deposit had not been refunded. Plaintiff claimed a refund of the deposit of £5O, together with 12s. interest, £lO 10a. legal expenses, and £25 general damages. After hearing the ewdenoe the Magistrate reserved hia deoioum and Intimated that ho would, in the meanwhile, inspect the property. BY-LAW CASES. Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M m dealt with the by-law cases. For exceeding the epeod Mnait on their motor vehicle., OeroUl Oorriwee (two charges) ww fined Ms. on each charge mid costs; Charles W. Andwotm, #0». and costs; Frederick Brnart Quayle, £3 and ousts; and J. Staples, 40s. and oesta. Eric Dimmock wae fined £8 and ordered to pay costs. Jf<W fwrfrae drihdn®.

Ftyr haring no lights on their vehicles I. P. Helmling, Stephen H. Matterson, and Douglas Seymour were each fined ss. and costs. For leaving their vehicles unattended in tho streets, William A. Morris and Joseph Taylor were each fined 10s. and costs, and George M'Donald was ordered to pay costs only, 7s. Sydney Sadler was ordered to pay 7s. costs for allowing a horse to wander.