WAITARA.

Taranaki Daily News, 2 August 1921, Page 6

WAITARA.

MAGISTRATE’S COURT* (From. Our Own Correspondent.) August 1. A sitting of the Magistrate’s Court was presided over by Mr. C. R. Orr Walker, S.M., on Wednesday last. Jas. Northcott, for driving a motor lorry without lights, was fined 10s and costs 7s. Puke Martin and Albert Woods, for driving gigs without lights, were fined 5s and costs 12s. Ken Lye and H. Alexander, for riding motor cycles without lights, were fined 10s and costs 12s. Mrs. Joe Preston, for driving a cart without lights, was fined 10s and costs 7s. Fred Brabant and Jas. Barras, for riding bicycles on the footpath, were fined 2s Gd and costs 7s. Alfred Hill, for failing to send his boy to school, was fined 5s and costs 7s, and Aporona Roberts, for a similar offence, I was fined 2s 6d and costs 12s. [ In a case brought T. Beggs (New I Plymouth) against T. H. Enyon (Waitara Road) to recover £ll 10s, balance due on the sale of a dairy cow purchased at the .Waiwakaiho saleyards, judgment was given for the amount claimed, with costs. i W. T. and G. W. Murray claimed from |C. Agate, of Uruti, the sum of £7 12s Gd I for rental of a tenement. The sum of |£4 10s had been paid info court. The court was also asked no make an order determining the occupancy,' on the ground, that the house was wanted for plaintiff’s own. use, and defendant was ordered to give up possession, on or before October 27. The Magistrate, who reserved his decision last court day in the case B. L. Ekdahl v. R. Fitzgerald, a claim for £ll 13s for dapiages sustained through a collision between plaintiff’s motor car ami defendant’s lorry at Uruti, gave judgment for defendant,' he concluding that the defendant’s version of the occurrence was the most reliable. Costs totalling.£2 2s were allowed. Judgment was given for plaintiffs in the following undefentled civil cases: P. A. Openshaw v. Tupok't £3 10s Gd, costs £1 17s Gd; W. R. J. Avery v. Jas. Parr, £5 15s 8d (costs £3 9s) ;\ A. J. Kibby v. Turata Rona, £6 14s Gd \(£l 17s 6d); Geo. Jupp v. Joe Taylor, £5 6s lid (£2 Ss 6d); Wills and Co. v. Whakarua, £1 3s (14s); H. Main v. M. O’Halloran, £3 3s lid (£2 7s Gd).

In the judgment summons case W. Jury and Co. v. C. Crowley, judgment for £4 2s lid. An order was made For payment on or before September 14. in the case Fraser and Healy v. Joe Taylor, an order was made fo'r payment of £63 9s forthwith, io be suspended so long as £4*. is paid monthly. \ GENERAL NEWS. Very few men are working at the freezing works at the present time, men having been pul off from week to week. Matters do not look very bright for them for next three or lour months, owing to a< scarcity of casual work, both in count r.v\ and town. The winter has been an excepliorially mild one, and, given an early spring, the works should stare earlier than usual for the coming season. After the next boat the works will be completely empty', which is the first time for many years, owing to large stocks of Imperia? meat being field in store. Air. McCullough, of Dunedin, arrives from Dunedin on Tuesday evening to take up the engineer’s position at the freezing works just vacated by Mr. A. Smaill, who is taking up a position in Dunedin. During the hearing of the tenement case on Wednesday, Murray v. Agjafe, a receipted contra, account, which had no stamp, was put in as evidence. The Magistrate remarked that it would have to be impounded and the authorities would probably take action. The public should know that all receipts for amounts of £2 and over must bear a twopenny stamp