PAPAKURA MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 199, 11 August 1916, Page 3

PAPAKURA MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Monday, 7th August. (Before Mr F. V. Frazer. S.M.) j CIVIL CASES. Judgment by default was given for plaintiffs in the fo'lowing civil actions, viz.:—Messrs Stembridge Bros., carriers and contractors, of Hunua (Mr J. G. Haddow), v. Grant Campbell, farmer, of Hunua, for £25 8s i)d and costs £3 3s; Messrs Hawthorne and Munro, Ltd, butchers, of Papakuia, v. Donald Morrison, traction engine proprietor, of Hunua, for £5 Hs 5d and costs £1 Is; Messrs Stokes and Earl, grocers, of Papakura, v. E. Heaslip, settler, of Cambridge, for £6 5a 6d and costs 18s.

Judgment by consent was given for Messrs Stokes and Earl against Fred Shadbolt, settler, of Grey Lynn, for £ ( J 15& 4d and costs i)s. A WKECKEI) HOME. A pitiful story was told by Joseph Hoye, farmer, of Clevedon, when giving evidence in suppoit of an application for a judgment order against Charles Piper, a carter, of St. Helier's Bay. Ihe sum involved was£;so 13s, which included amounts paid by judgment creditor for medical attention and medicine incurred by judgment debtor nearly six years ago, when he fell sick and was cared for at applicant's home. Judgment debtor made the excuse that he was a married man with two children and although he was in a permanent position his wages only amounted to £2 12s per week, and during the 10 months he had been ill for five weeks.

Hoye related .how Piper was received into Lis homo as a visitor in lylO and there fell i'!, receiving most careful attention, the whole cost of which he (Hoye) defrayed. In return for this, however, Piper ran away with applicant's wife and paid £3.") to have his own wife divorced so that he could many bis (Hoye's) wife. He had evaded the police and had taken tho assumed name of Dawson while in tho Waikato. In addition, he was constantly drunk, and through his influence applicant's two daughters had been ruined.

The Magistrate remarked that it was a very unpleasant thing for judgment debtor to liavn run away with applicant's wife, but it diil not enter iuto the case before him. If

it was not for debtor's limited means he would have been inclined to sentence him to three months in gaol. An order was made for payment of 5s weekly, in default three months' imprisonment.