NEWS OF THE DAY

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20077, 25 October 1939, Page 6

NEWS OF THE DAY

Dispute Over Rent of a Flat Judgment with costs amounting to £3 13s 9d was given yesterday by Mr. J. H. Luxford, S.M., in favour of Mrs. K. G. Marsh (Mr. G. J. Jeune) in the Magistrate’s Court, when she claimed £6 4s 3d, rent of a fiat that was owing when it was vacated by the defendant, Gilbert Johnstone (Mr. K, A. Woodward). The case for the defendant j was that the rent was too high, and I that he had left in the flat a gas stove | sufficient to satisfy the plaintiff. It j was found that no arrangement had I been made between the parties that I the stove would be acceptable in lieu | of the rent owing.

Gisbome-Motuhora Railway

The railways working account shows that the revenue from the Gis-borne-Motuhora line for the four weeks ended September lti was £2139, against £2321 for the correspondingperiod last year. The expenditure was £2505, compared with £2987 in 1938, and the deficit on the four weeks’ operations was £420, against a deficit of £IOO for 1938.

Inter-Club Bowling Trophy A trophy for inter-club competition will be keenly sought after by members of the Waikaremoana and Wairoa bowling clubs, the trophy having been donated by Messrs. M. Sheehan and N. McDougall. The first series of games for the trophy, which will be known as the “Mick Mack Trophy,’’ will be played next week-end, when a team of Wairoa players will take part in the opening of the season at the Waikaremoana club.—Special.

Doctors’ Travelling Fees Recommending to the Cook Hospital Board at yesterday’s meeting that it allow 2s Gd per mile, one way, for journeys undertaken by a country doctor at the instance of the board, the chairman, Mr. M. T. Trafford, pointed out that medical practitioners charged 5s per mile to their private patients. “Is that not so, Dr. Collins?’’ he asked. Dr. J. C. Collins' reply was laconic: “Five shillings a mile—when you can get it!”

Railcars Popular Travelling by railcar between Wairoa and Napier on Labour Day proved to be very popular and necessitated the Railways Department running a second car in the afternoon. When the usual car left Wairoa at 1.50 p.m. it carried its maximum number of passengers and a second car was put on at 2.30 p.m. to carry the overflow passengers, l’he accommodation of the two cars was taxed on the return Napier-Wairoa journey.—Special.

Radiologist Appointment “I have wondered, as the member who moved that the board appoint , a radiologist, whether it would not be advisable to hold over the appointment until after the war,” said Dr. J. C. Collins at yesterday’s meeting of the Cook Hospital Board. “We discussed that with Dr. R. A. Shore while in Wellington, and he told us by all means to go ahead,” replied the chairman, Mr. M. T. Trafford, who further advised the board that correspondence had been dispatched abroad concerning the selection of a suitable appointee.

Orthopaedic Service At yesterday afternoon’s meeting of the Cook Hospital Board, a letter was received from Dr. W. S. Robertson. Wellington, orthopaedic specialist, who stated that he had accepted a post with the Wellington Hospital Board, which would prevent his carrying on the specialist service inaugurated at the Cook Hospital some years ago, and conducted by Dr. Robertson on regular visits to Gisborne. On the recommendation of the finance committee, the board decided to write to the Wellington Hospital Board, inquiring if an arrangement could be made that would obviate a change in the Cook Hospital specialist service. Fair Rents Act After hearing two tenancy cases yesterday, Mr. J. 11. Luxford, S.M., nade some observations in the Magis.rate’s Court relative to the Fair Rents Act. He said the Act did not entitle a ten.i it to stay in premises is long as he liked, but merely provided that a tenant should have a ■oof over his head, and that if the rent was reasonable, and the prem!scs not such as to endanger his health, he was bound to go into them, or stand the risk of being put out into he street. In one of the cases a complaint was made that a tenant had no garage for his car, and His Worship said the Act was framed so that the tenant would have a roof aver his head and not over his car. In both cases orders were made for possession.

Judgment for Defendant Belief in the evidence of the defendant and the awarding of judgment to him witli costs was a de•ision made yesterday afternoon bv Mr. J. H. Luxford, ' S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court when a claim to recover an alleged deposit of £8 11s on a radio set was made by I-loan' Harr.ki (Mr. A. J. Stock) from Lionel Rhodes (Mr. A. A. Whitehead). Evitence was given for the plaintiff by Stacey Von Pein, Uangaroa, who said he had been trying to assist the plaintiff, hut had not known that Haraki had signed a hire purchase agreement. Haraki was alleged to have ordered a radio set from Rhodes, paid •i deposit and signed an agreement. Three days later the set was returned and another had been purchased from a second dealer. Mr. Stock submitted that the radio set from Rhodes had been on trial, and that the deposit should be recoverable. Claim For Cost of Work Done A claim for the cost of work done at the request of Beatty Brothers (N.Z.), Limited (Mr. A. A. Whitehead) was made yesterday in the Magistrate’s Court before Mr. J. H. Luxford. S. by Craven William Izod (Mr. L. T. Burnard), and judgment was allowed the plaintiff with costs, the claim being reduced by £2. The work carried out on behalf of the defendants consisted of the installation of electric power points for washing machines. The account, amounting to £35 <ss lOd. was in dispute, Mr. Whitehead submitting that the charges were excessive compared with the prices ruling in other parts of the Dominion. The plaintiff, who had been in business for 20 years, did not recognise that his charges were in any way excessive. He took the word of his employees that the figures they recorded in’ the time book were accurate. Evidence for the defence was given by a Hastings electrician, Albert Hayes Croucher.

Claim for Recovery of ,£lO A claim for the recovery of .£lO advanced in 1937 to S. F. Temple, the Gisborne representative of the company. and allegedly for Hu? company’s benefit, was heard yesterday in the Magistrate’s Court by Mr. J. H. Luxforrf S.M., the plaintiff being Ernest William Forrest (Mr. G. J. Jeune), and the defendants, Gough, Gough, and Hamer, Limited, Christchurch (Mr. T. S. Wauchop). Judgment was given for the defendant with costs. Evidence was taker, in Christchurch on behalf of the company as to the nature of Temple’.; authority. Mr. Jeune explained that the money was not for the firm, but for Temple’s own benefit, and contended that Temple bad general authority to transact she whole of the company’s business in Gisborne, and in any event if he had exceeded that authority the defendant should suffer rather than the plaintiff, because one of their order Mims had been given to the plamfiff. Mr. Luxford held that the evidence of Temple's activities in Gisborne and the giving of the order was not sufficient to render the defendant liable.