PUKEKOHE MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 4, Issue 123, 20 December 1915, Page 1

PUKEKOHE MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Thursday. December 16th. (Before Mr E. Page, S.M.) The following caßeß were dealt with ' CIVIL ACTIONS Judgment by default was given tor the respective plaintiffs in the following cases, viz.E Mahony and Son v. John Keane, farmer, Puni, for £2 lis 6d and costs sa; William Roulston (Mr Hopkins) v. George Attewell, bricklayer of Pukekohe, for £6 19s 2d and costs £1 3s 6d.

J Adams and Son, batchers, Pukekohe (Mr Hupkins) claimed from Kay Miller, an employee of the New Zealand Dairy Association, at Fukekohe, the sum of 252 4s sd. Defendant's wife appeared and disputed the claim. The oniy liability Bhe said that either |l>e or her husband had incurred at Messrs Adams and Son's bad b?en settled.—The Magistrate pointed out to Mrs Miller tbat Bhe had qot given notice to defend the c&se; he, however, allowed her to proceed, and she admitted having received an account from Adams and Son but stated that neither she nor her husband had contracted it. Nearly all the meat she used id her house was purchased from Messrs Roulston Bros, and in nearly every instance was a cash transaction.—To allow the defendant an opportunity of filing a notice of defence the case was adjourned till tbe next Court day, defendant to pay counsel's fee of 5s 3d. BKEACH OF PROHIBITION I ORDER. ! For committing a breach of hisj prohibition order, by entering the j Patumahoe Hotel on the 22nd No* vember, Frank Roberts, seaman and labourer, was lined £2 and costs 7s. FROM COURT JO PUB Charles Moore, the Maori labourer, of Aka Aka, who was convicted and fined last Courl day for procuring liquor at Waiuku whilst prohibited, was again called on to answer to two breachas of his prohibition order, viz., first, for procuring liquor at Pukekohe on the 2nd mst whilst prohibited, and, second, for entering licensed premises wk,!at prohibited.—Mooie did not appear —Constable Mark Thornell outlined tht case on behalf of the police, stating that some hours after Moore had been convicted at the last Court he saw him in the Pukekohe Hotel under tbe influence of drink, and was informed by the barman that he had been drinking. He had warned Moore before he entered the fcotel.—The Magistrate remarked tbat Moore had been somewhat deliberate in entering the hotel shortly alter being convicted and lined and warned by the police. He was convicted and lined £3 and costs 18s 6d and a witness's expenses, ss, on the first charge, and on tbe second waß ordered to pay Court costs, 7s. Charles Blake, labourer, of Waiuku, who also figured in Court at the last sitting on charges of pro:unng liquor for Moore, whilst the latter was prohibited, and for procuring liquor lor a Maori, Moore, for consumption off licensed premises, on both of which charges he waß convicted and fined, was called on to answer a charge of having entered tbe Pukekohe Hotel on the 2nd nst, in company with Moore, whilst Moore was prohibited. Blake pleaded guilty, and Sergeant Cowan gave similar evidence in regard to Blake's actions on the 2nd inst, as Constable Ihornell had in reference to Moore's actions on that date.—Blake claimed that he was not aware at the time that he was committng an offence, but Sergeant Cowan repudiated the statement by explaining that Blake was also wanted by tbe police.— He was fined £5 and costs 12s.

THE NOBLE HORSE Kicbard' Atkinson, driver, ot Fukekawa, was charged with having driven a horse at Tuakau on the 15th inst, whilst it was suffering with a sore shoulder, and a charge was alto laid against the owner Harold Harris, storekeeper, of Fukekawa, for causing the horse to be worked in that condition.— The defendant Harris appeared and stated that Atkinson had requested him t) plead guilty, and he also pleaded guilty on bis own behalf. He explained that he hud undertaken to cart cream trom Pukekawa to Tuakau and was under a penalty if he failed to do so. He was cot used to horses and left the handling of them to his man. The horße, which was the subject ot the complaint, was a young one which bad been scalded during "breaking-in" operations. On the advice of Pukekawa residents he had given the horse a spell for five weeks, and it had only been in work recently for a fortnight. He could not purchase another horse to replace the injured home, but bad arranged to exchange for another horse for the tims being. It was bis first venture in the carrying trade, and be had to rely on other people's advice. —The horse, which was outside the Court, was inspected by the Magistrate, and Sergeant Cuwan mentioned that it wss the earae animal that was the subject of a charge against Harris last month, when he was convicted and lined. •The Magistrate thought that the blemish on the horße was not bad, and it seemed that Harris had been fined a substantial sum last month, and aa there had been no deliberate intention on his part to be cruel, both informations would be dismissed.