ELTHAM.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 August 1922, Page 7

ELTHAM.

t MAGISTRATE’S COURT. 2r A sitting of the Eltham Magistrate’s ,Court was held yesterday, Mr. A. M. rMowlem, S.M., presiding. j figment by default was given in the foUqwmg civil cases: Eltham Borough Council v. John James O’Rorke, £1 3s -2d_(fCQsts £8 14S); Wilson’s Motor Supplies, Ltd. v. B. D. Stone, £4 0s 3d (eoafs £1 3s 6d); P. N. Petty v. T. J. Al|eii/ £5 19s 8d (co~sts £1 16s 6d); Ernest Edmund Garter v John Staines, £6 13s lOd (costs £1 19s 6d). Johfi C. Skipper, fruiterer and confeciipnef, of Eltham, claimed 9/3 from Mrs. JT. H. Taylor, for tomatoes and apples 3^dl ( cf to her in 1918. Judgment was .giveil for plaintiff for 0/3, and costs 14s. BREACHES OF BY-LAWS. John W. Ogle was charged with driving a motor-car across the intersection of Bridge and High Streets at an excessive speed on July S. Defendant, who failed to appear, was fined £3, and costs £2 Is. . James Slight was charged with driving a gig without lights. Defendant was fined £3 (costs 7s). Vincent F. Martin, of the Eltham ! Road, was charged with driving a motor- I cycle and side-car without a light at- j tached to the side-car, and was fined I 10s (costs 7s). Keith Hemingway and George Parker j pleaded guilty to riding bicycles with- I out lights, and were fined 10s (costs 7s). • A. M. Herbert was charged with rid- ■ ing a motor-cycle without any means i of giving notice of his approach. He i was fined £1 10s (costs 12s). Terence Hammersley, of Kaponga, j was charged with crossing the railway : line, at the Bridge Street level crossing, • directly in flront of an approaching train. Defendant, who did not appear, was fined £2 (costs 7s). A THEFT CASE. Two men., about 25 years of age, pleaded guilty to stealing a bath from a farm property belonging* o the Crown, i Defendants were fined £2 and costs, j the Magistrate remarking that the bath ,■ would of course be returned to His j Majesty the King. At the request of counsel the Magistrate decided thkt in ! view of the previous good record of j these two men their names be not pulb- | ijished in the Press.