MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

Putaruru Press, Volume II, Issue 50, 2 October 1924, Page 2

MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

LOCAL MOTORIST’S OFFENCE. Speeding On Arapuni Road. The regular sitting of the Putaruru Magistrate’s Court was held in the Town Hall on Thursday, Mr. J. H. Salmon, S.M., presiding. There was little business and the sitting concluded about 11.45 a.m. In the adjourned case in which Charles Henry Selby, farmer, of Tirau, was charged with failing to comply with an order for contribution towards the maintenance of his mother, being £37 15s in arrears at the rate of 5s 3d per week, further details of his position were submitted. He was convicted of the breach of order, but given an opportunity to redeem the position by paying 10s per week, this amount coinciding with a benefit he was receiving under his grandfather’s will. A plea of guilty was made by Arthur Louis Nathan, farmer, of Waotu, to a charge of dangerous driving of a motor car on the Arapuni road, Putaruru, on a recent Saturday. Constable Murphy stated that there was a representative football match at Putaruru that afternoon, and as the people were coming away from the ground, accused came down the road in his car at high speed. Another motorist had to drive right off the road to avoid accused, while the pedestrians also had to scatter. Accused realised that he was driving too fast and continued at a more resonable pace. The magistrate: Is it a good piece of road ?

Constable Murphy: Yes, your Worship.

While warning the accused that he might have been charged with manslaughter, the magistrate remarked fortunately no damage had been done. Accused was convicted and ordered to pay costs, 225. BY DEFAULT. Judgment for the plaintiffs by default was given in the following cases:—McDermott Bros. v. H. Allen and Robina Allen, £l6 14c Bd, costs £3 7s; Taupo Totara Timber Company, Ltd., v. P. A. Harnian, £ib ss» 4d, costs £4 7s; Hampson and Bell v. G. H. Bradbourne and Florence Bradbourne, £l4 9s 7d, costs £3 7s; McDermott Bros. v. Charles Jackson, 15s. •