HAWERA.

Taranaki Daily News, 5 October 1921, Page 6

HAWERA.

MAGISTRATE’S COURT. i YESTERDAY’S SITTING. (From Our Own Correspondent.) October 4. Mr. A. M. Mowlem, S.M., presided at a sitting of the Hawera Magistrate’s Court yesterday. ACT OF VANDALISM. Tvon Harwood, John Henry Rush and Douglas Davies were charged with damaging two seats and two posts in the fence of the tennis court in King Edward Park, damage to a total value of £3 4s 6d being done.

Evidence showed that the three accused had been drinking on the day in question. The police mentioned that similar acts of hooliganism had been committed of late. Each accused was fined £3 and costs and ordered to pay £1 2s damages. BY-LAW CASES. A. C. Pearce was fined 10s and costs for leaving a motor car after sunset without lights. William Blake, charged with leaving a motor car standing for longer than fifteen minutes unattended, was fined 10s and costs. Robert Runchinan was fined 5s and costs on a charge of driving a car without a rear light. A. G. Bailey, on a charge of driving a car with only one headlight, was fined 10s and costi. J. Walsh, charged with driving a car without, having a tail light attached, was fined 5s and costs. C. J. Hawken, on a charge of fa’ ure to notify the Hawera County Council of change of ownership of a motor ear purchased by him, was convicted and ordered to pay 6s witness’ expenses and 7s costs. • Robert Walter was convicted and ordered to pay 6s witness’ expenses and 7s costs on a charge of riding a motorcycle without having a silencer attached. Ray Strong, charged with driving a motor car without having a number attached, was fined 5s and costs. CIVIL CASES. Judgment for plaintiff by default was given in the following cases: —A. H. Shaw v. Te Hauparoa, £2 3s 6d and £1 Us 6d costs; Jury and Co. v. J. H. Slight, £1 6s (18s); Para Rubber Co., Ltd. v. Shirley Lecky and Frederick W. Collins, £4 15s 8d (£1 3s 6d); Bennett and Sutton v. Akamanu, £2 14s 3d ( £1 13s 6d) ; Hawera Sash and Door Co., Ltd. v. G. H. Taylor, £8 17s 6d ( £1 10s 6d) ; Golds tone and Patterson v. C. Smith, £5 (£1 10s 6d); Robert G. Sellar and Annie Pritchard v. S. L. A. Stevenson £l4 Os lOd ( £2 14a). Orders were made in judgment summons cases as follow: —H. J. McKain v. C. F. Smith, £0 10s 6d, defendant to pnv forthwitn. in default ten days’ imprisonment; Maling and CoLtd. v. P. McLaughlin, £7 4s, tp be paid forthwith, in default seven days’ imprisonment; C. E. Brooke v. J. Hodges. £2 12s 6d, to be paid forthwith, in default three days’ imprisonment; H. E. Harris v. J. Dennis. £6 7s Bd, to be paid forthwith, in default seven days’ imprisonment.