ABSENCE OF CRIME

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 193, 1 September 1937, Page 6

ABSENCE OF CRIME

Hastings Has a "Clean Sheet" Hastings has had "a clean sheet" this week as far as criine is concerned. At the weekly sitting of the Magistrate's Court this morning before Mr. J. Miller, S.M., there was a small list confined only to civil claims^ there being no police, or traffie department prosecutions. The sitting occupied less than an hour. Although the number and nature of the charges has frequently been light, it has seldom before occurred tbat there has been an entire absence of criminal cases. There have been no sittlngs of the Police Court during the week. Among the civil cases was an application for an order for possession under tho Fair Rents Act, but this was adjourned through insufiieieut evidence Judgmcut for plaintiffs by dei'ault was- given in the following cascs: AVliy te aud FitzGerald v. S. Duncan £6 6/6, costs* £1 16/6; Robert Holt and fckms, Ltd., v. Q. Grant, £3 10/-, costs £1 6/6; T, J. Thompson and Sons, Ltd., v. E. W. Booth, £2 7/6, costs £1 4/6; A. J. Vida] and Sons v. W. T. • Thompson. £2 9?-. costs £1 3/6; W. J. Bisliop v. R. Long, £3 10/15, costs £1 G/0; Frank Ball v. Ben Davis, £3, costs £1 6/6; T. J. Thompson and Sons, Ltd., v. Peter Matthews, £9 17/11, costs £1 19/6; II. B4. Poppelwcll and Co., Ltd., v. P. Matthews, £7 13/9, coste £1 19/6. In a judgment summons, T. Norris was ordered to pay Hallenstein Bros., Ltd., the eum of £5 13/6, costs 15/G forthwith in default seven days' iniprisonment.