MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Hokitika Guardian, 16 April 1931, Page 6

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

THUIiisDAY, APRIL l(i. (Before W. Meldrum, Esq., S.M.) t DEBT CASKS. Judgment lor plaintiff with costs was given in tlie following eases: — ,1. Boyd (Mr Klcoek) v. A. Whittington claim £h 10s and costs 2(js (id. Addisons (Mr Klcoek) v. A. AYillmot claim £2 ICs and costs 2os. It. Lynn .Mr Murdoch) v. -lock Wilson judgment summons t'.'l os fid. Order made for payment forthwith in default seven days. Charges of being found alter hours on licensed premises were dealt witn as follows: One offender (Dunedin Hotel) ordered pay costs 10s. Four offenders Keller’s Hotel) each ordered to pay costs 10s. One offender (Keller's Hotel) lim'd •Ids and costs 10s. Three offenders (Commercial Hotel) one was fined 4-0 s and costs 10s. the of her two to pay costs 10 s each. In one ease. a charge against a resident (Pioneer Hotel) of being on tli 0 premises, Sergeant Kdig l - H \c evidence that he saw the defendant, (from the end of Hokitika lnu.pe) enter the front door of the hotel, and the door close. Alt' Murdoch vnisetl tlie point that this did not consti'iOe being ‘hound” on the premises. At counsel’s request the hearing " ,is adjourned for a fortnight to enable the point to he looked into. The next ease, on similar lutes, was also adiourned to next sitting, after the evidence had been heard. qhe police charged William Cain with supnlying lionov after hours and L. Fowler, licensee (Commerced Hofei) with exposing hq'tor. Mr ''"l- - for defendants liFaded guilty. Cain was fined 20s and costs 10s and Fowler 40s and costs KK On a charge against ;i resident of procuring liquor while prohih ted. -'n offender was convicted and ordered t« pay costs 10s. On a charge of cycling at nmht without a light, Joseph Singe,- (Mr Klcoek) pleaded guilty and wa s fined 5s and costs 10s. BOROUGH BVK-LAAVS,

Borough Inspector (Alt Path) '• W 'l’ong, a. charge o! recklessly driving a motor car. Fined os and costs 10 s . Sa-» t , v. ,1. \Y. Singe,- (Air Fh.'Ock). rid ; ng a cycle at night without a lie-lit Fined os and cosfs 20s od. Same v. F. Platt, a charge of ev-1-ing on a footpath. Fined os and costs 20s fid. In a .maintenance case. Hector Tnvnlmll was ordered f.o pay £2 o s :U! d costs £] Is Gd forthwith in default 7 days in Papnrua prison.