WAIPUKURAU COURT

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 31, 30 October 1937, Page 9

WAIPUKURAU COURT

Our Own Correspondent.)

* * . Traffic Offences and Debt Cases

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WAIPUKURAU, Last Night. One case of after-hours trading ai an hotel, two breaches of traffic laws^ and a fairly lengthy list of civil actions for debt occupied the attention of Mr J. Miller, S.M., in the Waipukurau Magistrate's Court. Pleading guilty by letter to a chqrge of driving a motor-cycle at Porangahau without being the holder of a driver's licence, Henry McLutchie Houkaman, lubourer, Wanstead, was fined 10/-, and ordered to pay costs, 12/-. Charged with failing to keep to the left of the centre line when turning to. liis right out of the main highway uitc •Factory road. Otawhao, on September 22, Brace Lloyd Archer, farm-hand, Otawhao, pleaded guilty. Constable Mullan, Takapau, toid the Court that defendant had cut the corner pn his motor-cycle pnd eollided with p car, which had sustained about £3 wortli of damage. The cycle had been badly damaged and the rider elightly injured so he had had the worth of it. Further, he had not hesitated to admit that he had been at fault. The constable pointed out that, at that particular corner, on account of the heavy volume of lefthand traffic, the wheel tracks were wom over ta the left of the bend, and defendant had followed them too dosely, The Magistrate fixed the penalty at £1, with costs 10/-. CIVIL CASES. ' Judgment for plaintiff by default wa© entered in the following civil actions: — G. H. Kerskaw v. J. H. James £5 14/10, costs 15/6; Porangahau Tradi^, Co., Ltd. v. H. Diamond £3 8/-, costs £1 3/6; Waipawa Hospital Board v. T. Ireland £9, costs 15/-; Messrs Gay and Turner v. R. J. Findlay £4 10/3, costs £1 3/6; Waipawa Hospital Board v. T. A. Ropiha £6 15/-, costs £1 3/-; VVaipawa Hospital Board v. Paul Ropiha £86 8/-, costs £2 8/-; Roach's Drapery, Ltd. v. Mrs L. Kuight £4 6/-, costs £1 5/6; T. G. Given v. Mrs L. Knight £1, costs 10/-; H. B. Poppelwell and Co., Ltd. v. G. Karton £1 12/6, costs 8/-; Pkil Mason v, B. Karton £8 8/6, costs £1 10/6; R. Scott and Co., Ltd. v. R. E. Hankey £1, costs 8/-. Judgment summonses; Baden Powell Brooker was ordered to pay the Waipawa Hospital Board £5 13/- and costs 15/6, in default seven days» imprisonment, the warrant to be suspended if nc pays £2 a month; R. Pellew to pay W. Clarry and Co., Ltd. £6 2/10 and costs 15/6, in default seven days ' imprison'ment; R. C. Reid to pay the Public Trust £1 9/-, in default two days; N. Gvborac to pay M. J. Vriletich £29 10/6 and costs £1 11/6, in default 31 days, Warrant to he suspeuded if he pays £1 a month; E. Ingram to pay C. B. Stevens and Sons £2 17/6, in default four days.