MAGISTRATES' COURT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 262, 3 April 1914, Page 6

MAGISTRATES' COURT.

TIIIKSDAY, :>nd A PHIL. Before Mr. A. Crookc, S.M. The Magistrate's Court at Xew Plymouth was occupied yesterday ill the hearing of by-law ami defence eases. 'L'KIUUTOIUAL CAiSKS. Tlio adjourned case against Leslie, I'. Sole (Mr. Konald Qnilliain) was tile lirst dealt with, find after the defendant hail given evidence that he had no knowledge of tlie parade for February 17 until lie saw his brother at 10 p.m. on that date, and tiiat, the written liolilication did not reach him until February IS. His worship dismissed the :n----formation, but retused to grant court costs against the Department. William Christie Smith, who pleadc.' guilty to non-attendance at parades, was lined ok without costs, and advised to apply for exemption. COUXTV BY-LAWS. John Albert Wheeler did not appear to answer to a charge of having driven a motor car after dark without lights along a country road, but .Mr. Be.wley appeared for him and pleaded, saying that defendant* had been driving on very rugged country, and one of the tubes con- [ liected with his lamps had been broken. IHe asked that no fine be inflicted. Mr. ! Konald Quilliam, who appeared for the j Tarnnnki County Council, said that defendant had never lit his lamps that .night. Defendant ;was fined ."is and 1 costs 17s lid. BOROUGH BY-LAWS. Breaches of tlu: Borough by-laws were dealt with as follows, .Mr. B; Tipping, Borough inspector, prosecuting':—William Turnbull, for leaving a horse and cart unattended in the street, w.thoiu having locked the wheel of the cart. 3s and costs 7s. Mary Francis Barnitt, for driving after dark with only onfc lamp; 5s and costs 7s. Harris Ford, for failing to connect with a sewer; 3s and costs 7s. Frank Tait, for driving after dark without lights; 7s Gd and costs 7s. William Pratt, similarly charged; 3s and costs 12s. Eric Norman Beilringer. 7s fid and costs 7s. Charles l'earce, for leaving a dead dog oil the streets; 10s and costs 7s. Thomas 11. Cioch. for driving after dark with no lights; 7s- (id and costs 7s. James Hill, for riding an uulighted feyele after dark, under extenuating circumstances; 5s without costs. • Willkin Crone, for riding an uulighted motor cycle at 5 a.m.; 7s (id and costs 7s. Thomas Arthur llcrridge (Mr. T. King) pleaded "guilty to having driven a timber wagon in the Borough of New Plymouth without a license. Mr. King said that defendant had told the inspector that he would be putting a timber wagon on the road soon and enquired the amount of the license fee. On the following Monday the Inspector had seen him driving the wagon on the street and he had immediately taken out a license. It was the custom of the inspector to collect his fees on the street. The inspector, however, Gtated that defendant had on March '2l told him that he would be using the wagon, which was then in course of construction, on the following Monday. Witness had rejoined that if he did so he would be prosecuted, but defendant refused to take out a license then. On the Monday he was driving the wagon unlicensed. Xoel C. Harding,\clerk in the oflice of the Xew Plymouth Borough Council, corroborated this story of the conversation bewteen the inspector and the defendant, and his worship inflicted a line of 5s but. as the license was now taken out, he did not make an order for costs.