MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Hokitika Guardian, 18 September 1928, Page 4

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

GRJiYMOUT.iI, Sept. 18,

At the Magistrate's Court yesterday, Alfred John Wall, of Kunmra, a Power Board employee, was charged with operating a ear which was not equipped with two independant brakes, one being a foot-brake and the other a band-brake, in that he permitted the car to lie used by George Alfred Cooper, of Kumnrn, a bushman, contrary to .Clause 4 of tho Motor regulations, 1928. Cooper was charged with operating the car. Defendants, who did not appear, were each convicted and fined £l, with 10s costs. Sol lei tors’s fee of Cl Is was allowed in each case.

A. G. Wells, builder and contractor, of Reef ton, was charged (I. That, on or about. August 15, at Wallsonr, he began tlio erection of a scaffolding. incurring tho risk of a fall of over 12 feet, without haying first notified the Inspector of his intention to do «o : , as required hv Section 5 of tho Scaffolding Act, 1922; (2) that he erected a scaffolding, the working platform of which was at a greater height than 10 feet 'from the ground, and failed to provide a guard rail ,as required by Clause M of the Act. The ig.M. convicted and fined defendant, £l, wth 10s costs, on the first charge, and £2, with costs, on tho second charge. When John Dunn a miner Was charged last Monday with using obscene language at Blackball on Scptsnfjcr 1, he denied it, and called Wiliam McVicar to support his denial. McVicar went further, and swore that Francis Practick Mulligan, the third man of tho trio, was responsible for tlio words complained of. On the other hand, Constable Conway stated that the language was loudly used by Dunn, despite a warning to desist. The case was adjourned in order to give Mulligan an opportunity an opportunity of defending himself. The S.M. said it was admitted by Dunn and McVicar that the language was used. They said that it was used by Mulligan, Jbut lie denied it. Constable Conway said he was right alongside Dunn at the time. “There is no doubt whatever that the language was used by Dunn,” declared the S.M. Dunn was convicted and fined £1 with 13s casts land 14s 2d witness’s expenses to Mulligan.