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ELTHAM.

MAGISTRATE'S COURT. (From pur Own Correspondent.) Eltham. August 25. Mr. T. A. B. Bailey, S.M., presided over the fortnightly sitting of the Magistrate's Court to-day. . BY-LAW BREACHES. Robert Horace.Phillips was fined £5, with costs 17s Bd, for allowing 92' head of mixed cattle to wander on the Fraser Road. W. L. Johns and Isaau Norris were each fined 10s, with costs 7s, for driving a vehicle without lights Richard Williams was charged' with leaving a, motor lorry the road unlighted and unattended. Constable Townscnd stated that the prosecution arpso put of the fatal accident on Burke's Hill on the 14th' inst. The lorry had run out of petrol and the driver had left it on the roadside at a dangerous place, and the unlighted obstruction was to a certain extent responsible for the knocking down of a pc'estrian by a cyclist, with fatal results. The Magistrate inflicted a fine of 10s, with costs 7s, AN EXPENSIVE DRIVE.

Henry Glendinning, for. whom Mr. Slieat appeared, pleaded guilty through his solicitor to a charge of being drunk in charge of a motor car at Kaponga. Constable Liston stated that on June 30 last the defendant was driving on the Kapongf.-Opunake road, and had run into a bridge which was being repaired, and had to b» towed out. He then commenced to 'return to Kaponga, and while driving at a high rate of speed had run into a mob of cattle, and had killed one beast and injured .others.

Mr. Sheat asked tfiat his Worship should treat the defendant leniently, as he was unfortunate in that the aamaged cattle were pedigree stock, and that it had cost him £ 170 to pay for the damage, for which amount he produced a receipt. His Worship slatefl that the offence was a serious one, and one for which provision should be made to cancel a license to drive a motor. Some such provision would have to he made in the interests of public safety. In consideration of the heavy cost already paid he would inflict a penalty of £2 only, with costs 7b. CIVIL CASES. Judgment hv default was given in the case of Louis . fleorge (Mr. Crump) against J. H. Whitaker for £"ITTSs (costs £1 13s Cd). Kevin John Highden was ordered to pay H. C. Hawke £8 5s 6d, in default eight days' imprisonment. GENERAL. A branch of the Public Trust Office is to be opened in Eltham in the buildings of Messrs Tristram and Co. The district manager, Mr. J. C. Eobins, may be consulted there every Wednesday from September 1, 1920.

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Taranaki Daily News, 26 August 1920, Page 6

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430

ELTHAM. Taranaki Daily News, 26 August 1920, Page 6

ELTHAM. Taranaki Daily News, 26 August 1920, Page 6

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