PUKEKOHE MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 164, 11 April 1916, Page 2

PUKEKOHE MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Friday, 7th April. Beioro Mr E. Page, S.M. | CIVIL ArTION. Judgment by default was given for plaintiff in the action Messrs Hill Bros, farmers of Mauku (Mr Hopkins v. George Beven, farmer, Otaki, for £ I Is and cost 13s.

JUDGMENT SUMMONSES. In a judgment summon's case, Messrs Groen and Colobrook, merchants, of Tuakau (Mr C. 0. Mahony) v. R. Reid, settlor of Tua* kau, an order was made for pay. ment of 10s and 2s (id per week.

SUPPLYING LIQUOR TO MAORIS. Ernest Rogers was charged that at Tuakau ou the 25th March ho supplied Benjamin Pairama with a bottle of Schnapps for consumption oil' licensed premises. Accusod pleaded guilty but stated that he gave the.bottlo to Pairama because he told him that he was going to give it to another Maori who in turn was to hand it on to a sick woman. A fine of £ o and costs 7s was inflicted.

Benjamin Pairama was then charged with aiding and abetting Rogers. He pleaded guilty and Sergeant Cowan stated that it was tho result of Pirama's representations that Rogors obtained tho bottlq. Pirama, iu turn, handed it to anothor Maori, on whom tho bottle was found by Constable Taylor. Pairama was fined £' r > aud costs £2 f)s od TfIEJVT BV A NATIVE.

A charge ui' stealing a pair of dungarees from the Tuakau Hotel on the 18th March was laid agaiust a Maori nauiod Kinga Tauiehano who pleaded not guilty. Uowever, ou the police applying for an adjournment to allow evidence to be called the accused elected to plead guilty ruthur thau to have the case adjourned. The accused explained tbat ho win drunk at tho time and was not aware of what ho was doing.

Sergeant Cowan submitted a statement signed by accused admitting his guilt. Tho Sergeant added that the dungarees were left at the Hotel by a Maori named Taw ha. Tamebane knew they were there and ob-

tained the parcel from the licensee by representing that lie was the ( man who left the parcel. Tho accused, the Sergeant stated, had boon suspected of thieving for some time past. Tn fining accused £lf anil costs £1 \oi •""! tho Magistrate warned him thai if ho again appeared iu tho dock ho would be son. teuced to a term of imprisonment.