MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

Taranaki Daily News, 28 July 1922, Page 2

MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

NEW PLYMOUTH SITTING. Mr. A'. M. Mowlem, S.M., presided over a brief sitting ’of the Magistrate’s Court at New Plymouth yesterday. BREACH OF BY-LAWS. For allowing a cow to wander on Smart Road on July .17, 1922., Charles Mann was convicted iand fined os, and costa 12s. FAILING TO ATTEND SCHOOL. James O’Malley was charged with fail-, ing to send his child, O’Malley, to.school regularly. ? “ The Education Board’s truant officer, Mr. Pascoe, said that this . .chilfi had: missed one-thi®d.of its school time. The boy was ten years of age, and in th# second standard,, and had missed at on#, period three weeks in succession. The parents had had two warnings in a month, but no notice had apparently been taken. Thia was the second offence within two years. Dcfandant was convicted and -fined £l, with costs 10s. CIVIL CASES. ' Judgment wh' given for plaintiffs fyy default in the following undefended cases: —Albert Edward Magon v. W. S; MacLeod, daim £3 16s 6d, costs £1 Ils fid; Eruera Renata v. Wuirua Hauraki, claim £l7 4s Bd, costs £3 ss; Newton King, Ltd., v Pioi, claim. £9 7s lOd, costs £1 ISs fid. JUDGMENT SUMMONS. T. H. Sutton, who did not appear, was ordered to pay outstanding instalments ou a judgment amounting to £9 IQs on or before August 1,. in default 10 days’ imprisonment in the New Plymouth Prison, costs as per scale, amounting to 15/6, being allowed.