ELTHAM.

Taranaki Daily News, 25 July 1918, Page 3

ELTHAM.

MAGISTRATE'S COURT. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Eltham, July 24. Mr. W. R. Haselden presided over a sitting of the court yesterday morning. On the application of Constable Liston prohibition orders were granted against two resiednts of Kaponga. Judgment was given in the case of Ira J. Bridger v. Fred W. Watson, £G ISs, costs £1 )0s (id. Edward Gerald de Mey, fanner, Awatuna, claimed £lO Is Sd from W. Q'UeiU, farmer, Kaponga. Plaintiff conducted his own ease and Mr. Weir appeared for defendant. The claim was for half cost of a dividing fer.ce between .plaintiffs and defendant's properties at Awatuna, an agreement being made between the parties before the work was commenced. Plaintiff said that his then solicitor, Mr. G. D. Gftnv, had received the sum of £ls ss, being the amount awarded after the matter had been- dealt with by arbitration, but this amount he (plaintiff) did not consider sufficient In fact, he did not consider that the lawyers had treated him fairly. The Magistrate remarked that lawyers were persons who rescued estates from the enemy and kept them themselves. PlaintuT: But the lawyers are dragging the case on for their own benefit, and I would like to ask your Worship what would be the best thing to do. The Magistrate' replied that lie was not the proper person, to apply to for advice, and recommended plaintiff to consult a solicitor in whom he had conlidenee. Plaintiff was non-suited, and costs were awarded against him in the sum of £2 Cs. Judgment w'as given in the case of R. Q. Barr v. the Eltham Dairy Company, a claim for £44 3s 7d (amended claim). The Magistrate said ho must follow the decision given in the case of Free v. Eltham Co-operative Dairy Co., and judgment would be given for the amount claimed, with costs £ll 10s bd.

MAGISTRATE HASELDEN FAREWELLED. ■Prior to the ordinary business at the Eltham Court yesterday morning, Mr. T. B. Crump addressed the presiding Magistrate, Mr. \V. R. Haselden,' as follows: "Voiir Worship, we nnderstanc that your retirement from the Magis-H terial Bench takes place very shortly! and that this is the last occasion or,. which you will preside in this court. Wcj can well believe that it is with mixed! feelings that you and your colleagues who are in similar case receive the edict of retirement. We can understand that men conscious of active and vigorous and, as they believe, probably unimpaired menial and physical equipment might not welcome the suggestion involved in their retirement that advancing years mean waning powers and slackening eh'orts. On the other hand, long years of continuous work, often unrelieved by adequate intervals for rest and recuperation, entitle a public servant to a period of comfort and freedom from the cares of office. I feel quite sure that I ain voicing the sincere and honest sentiment of the members of ,the Bar in this town and district in expressing to your Worship the hope that you may live long and be blessed with good health, so that you may enjoy to the full the rest and case to which your long period of service so well entitles you."

Mr. Haselden, in the course of a brief reply, said he thanked the members of the Bar most sincerely for their kind expressions, and wished them all the success which they deserved, nceompanied by peace and prosperity. He hoped also that they would secure as good a Magistrate as they deserved.