THE COURTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 348, 26 March 1910, Page 5

THE COURTS.

BREACH OF LICENSING ACT. ' By Telegraph. —Press Association. ' invorcargill, Thursday. At the Police Court a defendant was convicted and discharged for obtaining liquor at Christchurch to send into iiivercargll no-license district without informing the vendor of the fact. FAILING TO KEEP BOOKS. Invercargill, Thursday. Jas. Gibson M'lvor ( a bootmaker at Otautau, was sentenced to two week«' imprisonment for failing to keep proper books of accounts. BAIL ESTREATED. Wellington, Thursday. Peter M'Masters, who was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence on a charge of pocket picking, failed to appear when called upon to-day. His bail of £OO was estreateU j MUCH LIKE PERSECUTION. Wellington, Last Night. A previously given decision toad to W reconsidered by Mr M. G. Riddell, S.M., to-day in the case of W. Newton, Inspector of Awards, v. Henry Henhard, baker. In this action plaintiff sued defendant for the recovery of a £lO fine for a breach of the award. The prosecution was based on the fact that defendant commenced work in his bakehouse at 10' p.m. on the 23rd December s'o as to provide bread for the following four days, which were holidays. At the original hearing, the Magistrate dismissed the information on the ground that there had been no breach of the award under clause 3, which referred to overtime, and that all the overtime had been paid. Plaintiff appealed, and the Arbitration Court held that the effect of the award was to absolutely prohibit any work between 10 p.m. and midn'ght. The case was referred back to the Magistrate, and plaintiff pressed for a fine. The Magistrate decided that if there had been any breach it was an excusable one, as defendant acted fairly in the matter, and paid each of the workers the correct amount for overtime. He thought it was a case, even if a breach had been committed, where section 16 of the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act should be applied. The information was therefore dis<missed.