MAGISTRATE’S COURT
LEVIN SITTING. Part of the business set down for hearing at the monthly sitting of the Magistrate’s Court in Levin was taken befoie Messrs E. 8. Lancaster and T. Brown*, J.’sP., this moaning, and the remainder was adjourned until Thursday next. The Magistrate, Mr J. L. Stout, of Palmerston North, is justnow liid aside with influenza. WANDERING HORSE. A Chinaman named Ah Chuen was charged, on the information of the; Borough Inspector (Mr W. J. Guinan) with having allowed a horse to wander at large in Cambridge Street on June 12th. Chuen pleaded guilty, explaining that he forgot to shut the gate. The 'lnspector, ■in giving evidence, stated that the defendant had caused a lot of trouble by allowing this horse to roam the streets. When the horse was standing in Fairfield Road after dark, the Inspector nearly ran into it with ' his car. The defendant had a half-at re section with grass on it, and there was no need for the animal to be on the road. A fine of £l, with costs 10s, was imposed. , NOISY MOTOR AND UNDUE i SPEED. The Inspector proceeded against Stanley Robert Mudgway, who did notappear, on two charges, one being thar ,on May 19th, in Oxford Street, he rode a motor-cycle not fitted with a proper silencer, and the other that on the mine date he turned the corner of Queen and Oxford Sheets at a greater speed than eight miles an hour. I his evidence, the inspector stated that on the date named, a Sunday, at 10.45 a.m., the defendant rode front Queen Street into Oxford Street at 25 miles an hour, and in order to take the corner he had to make a sweep which took him over by the Levin Hotel on his way south. The motor wjas very noisy, and the Inspector, who was watching the machine, could still hear it when it had reached the District High School. Defendant- was fined £1 for aiding a noisy machine and £1 10s for speeding, with 10s costs in each case.
UNDEFENDED CIVIL CASES.
Judgment was given for the plaintiffs, for the amounts named in the following undefended civil cases: —L. J .Hunter v. I*. C. Brookes, £2 2s, costs £1 9s 6d: Kuku Uo-opeiative Dairy Co., Ltd., v. P. B. Milroy, £l3 19s Sd, costs £3; W. B. Macintosh' and Son v. Charles Hutton, £9 10s, costs £1 12s 6d; same v. T. Stewart, £5 3s 4d, costs £1 12s Gd; H. E. Hook v. J. E. Pratt, £8 0s 3d, costs £1 10s 6d; P. B. Milroy v. C. M. Maxwell, £3, costs 10/-; assignees of T. C. Gollins v. T. Broughton, £1 6s 6d, costs £1 Is 6d.
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Shannon News, 21 June 1929, Page 2
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453MAGISTRATE’S COURT Shannon News, 21 June 1929, Page 2
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