MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 123, 22 February 1928, Page 9

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

POLICE AND CIVIL CASES Mr. E. Page, S.M., dealt with police cases in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday. Prank Key, a labourer, aged 27, who appeared for sentence on a charge of stealing a cheque valued at £5 6s. 6d., the property of Prank Stearne, was placed on twelve months’ probation. Accused was ordered to make restitution at the rate of £1 per week. Charles Frederick Smith, a labourer, aged 26,. who admitted being found by night without lawful excuse in a shed on railway property at Thorndon, was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence when called upon within 12' months. Accused was also ordered to stay at the Salvation Army Home, Miramar, until he secured employment. Edward William Armstrong, an agent, aged 47, who was charged with having been in charge of a motor-car while in a state of intoxication at Ngahaurangu on Thursday night last, was remanded until Tuesday next. It was stated by Sub-Inspector Lander that accused w'as still in hospital as the result of injuries received in a collision between his car and another vehicle. On the application of Mr. A. B. Sievwright, Armstrong was again allowed bail in the sum of .£3O. Michael John Moran, a labourer, aged 54, was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence when called upon within twelve months on a charge of being found by night without lawful excuse in an enclosed yard in Dixon Street. A charge of stealing a pair of boots valued at £1 155., the property of Samuel James Smith, which was also preferred against Moran, was dismissed. CIVIL BUSINESS Judgment by default in favour of plaintiff was given by Mr. W. G. Riddell, S.M., in the following undefended civil cases:— C. W. Martin v. R. F. Burke, £32 19s. 10d., costs £4 4s. 6d.; Isaac and Sons v. A. J. Archer, £4 65., costs £1 ss. 6d.; H. H. Walker v. Miss N. Cole, £lO 10s. 9d., costs £2 165.; National Dairy Association of New Zealand Ltd. v. E. Platt, £5 3s. 4d., costs £1 10s. 6d.; Radford and Co., Ltd., v. E. Lambert (separate estate), 125., costs 35.; Wellington City Council v. Annie Reardon (separate estate), £7 25., costs £1 Ils. 6d.; New Zealand Meat Packing and Bacon Co. (Co-op.), Ltd, (in liquidation), v. Arnold George Hagley, <£4 125., costs .£1 Bs. 6d.; Jones and Co., Ltd., v. J. G. Jacobson, costs only, £1 Is.; Lawrence and Hanson Electrical Co., Ltd., v. Holton’s Electric Plating Co., 18s., costs Bs.; New Zealand Collection Agency, assignees of the British Imperial Oil (N.Z.) Ltd. v. S. P. Parsons, £3l 45., costs £4 Is. 6d.; Stacey and Co., Ltd., v. G. Lambert, £l9 2s. 5d., costs £2 155.; Vacuum Oil Co. Pty. Ltd. v. W, J. Johnston, £2 Bs. 8d„ costs £1 Ils. 6d.; A. F. Tonks v. S. B. McDonald, £ll 175., costs £2 145.; Welebach Light Co. of Australasia Ltd. v. G. H. Newson, £29 7s. Bd., costs £4 ss. 6d.; Leicester, Jowett and Rainey v. H. B. Duncan and G. Duncan, his wife (separate estate), £1 Ils. 6d. costs 155.; Leicester, Jowett and Rainey v, Mrs. Jean Ward (separate estate), £1 25., costs 145.; Dyes and Chemicals (N.Z.) Ltd. v. H. Wainwright, £3 165., costs £1 3s. 6d.; Gordon and Gotch (Aust.) Ltd. v. E. Lawlor (separate estate), £3, costs £1 4s. 6d.; Winter and Robertson v. H. Winstanley, £l4 155., costs £2 175.; Mrs. C. Johns v. Mr. J. Johns, £l2 155., costs £1 55.; Vacuum Oil Co. Pty. Ltd. v. J. H. M. Williams, £8 os. 10d., costs £1 10s. 6d.; South Pacific Mortgage and Deposit Co., Ltd., v. H. J. Hodges and A. Hodges, £9, costs £1 55.; Raymond Carr v. Arthur Stanley Judd, £9 4s. 2d., costs £1 10s. 6d.; Scoullar Co., Ltd., v. A. L. 'Wicks, £4B 45., costs £4 Is. 6d.; Grace Letitia Giddings, Oliver William Buck, Francis Joseph Buck, Ada Hannah Mason and Eliza Josephine Burr v. Reginald Ponting, £2O 10s., costs £4 2s. 6d.; Exhibitors’ Alliance Films (N.Z.) Ltd. v. J. W, Katana, £l5 Ils. 4d., costs £3 95.; R. A. Nicol v. V. George, £7, costs £1 12s. 6d.; Vacuum Oil Co. Pty. Ltd. v. W. H. Bartlett, £25 ICs. 6d., costs £4 Is. 6d.; Norman Eric Walker v. Leslie J. Clarke, £lO 125., costs £2 145.; Wellington Operative Bakers’ and Pastrycooks’ and Related Trades’ Employees’ Industrial Association v. G. Douglas, £2 Ils. 3d., costs £1 3s. 6d.; SherwinWilliams Co. (Aus.) Ltd. v. H. Henrys, £26 18s. Bd., costs £4 Is. 6d. ; Fleet Printing Co., Ltd., v. H. Linklater, 10s., costs Bs.; A. S. Kent v. K. Taylor, £lO 4s. 4d., costs £2 165.; Dominion Mercantile Agency Ltd. and James Smith Ltd. v. L. Watson (separate estate), £2 35., costs £1 3s. 6d.; Dominion Mercantile Agency Ltd. and Munt, Cottrell and Co., Ltd., v. A. L. Wicks, £29 3s. 9d., costs £4 Js. Cd.; United States Rubber Co. (Aus.), Ltd., v. J. Hunter, £22 155., costs £4 6s. 6d.; Dominion Mercantile Agency Ltd. and W. L. Jenness v. J. Duncan, £6 Ils. Cd., costs £1 14s. 6d.; Janies Stewart Electrical Co., Ltd., v. AV. Orchard, £l2, costs £2 155.; Dominion Mercantile Agency Ltd. and Hill and Jackson Ltd. v. G. F. Stupples, £l2 fa’s. Cd., costs £2 17s.

The largest collection firm in New Zealand is -be Dominion Mercantile Agency, Ltd., of Wellington, Auckland, and Christchurch, with agents in every New Zealand town, and associate offices throughout the world. —Advt.