MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 May 1938, Page 8

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

MASTERTON FORTNIGHTLY SITTING. POLICE AND CIVIL BUSINESS. Mr H. P. Lawry, S.M., presided at the fortnightly sitting of' the Masterton Magistrate’s Court, held this morning. For having failed to give way to traffic at an intersection James Hobson, driver of a motor car, was convicted and fined £2 and 10s costs and on a similar charge Harry Hall, a motor cyclist was convicted and fined £1 and 10s costs. The Magistrate said that the second offence was not as serious as the first one. Henry James Brown was convicted and fined £1 and 10s costs for having employed a person to drive a motor vehicle when not the holder of a drivers’ licence. For having driven a motor car when not being the holder of a drivers’ licence, Jackson Douglas Smith was convicted and fined £1 and 10s costs. William Bazil Printz was convicted and fined 5s and costs 10s for having parked a motor car othei’ than parallel to the direction of the roadway. For having knowingly driven an unlicenced motor vehicle, Frank Edward Dorset was convicted and fined Court costs, 12s. Defendant stated that the vehicle was a lorry used exclusively for farm work and when the oflience occurred he had merely been travelling along the road from one part of his farm to another. CIVIL BUSINESS.

Judgment for plaintiff by default was given in the following undefended civil claims: —

Messrs Wright, Stepehenson and Co. v E. J. Eagle, claim £B5 Is Id, costs £4 15s 6d; T. H. Peet v Jack Morris, claim £3 17s 3d, costs £1 10s 6d; Allan and Co. v D. Bothwell, claim £8 0s 2d, costs £1 10s 6d; D. P. Ryan and Son, Ltd. v T. Harris, claim £7 18s, costs £1 13s 6d; P. Hamill and Co. v B. Lloyd, claim 16s 6d, costs 235; Masterton Borough Council v Estate of T. K. Macdonald, claim £l2 4s 6d, costs £3 4s; same v Estate James Russell, claim £6 14s 2d, costs £3 Ils 6d; same v Alice Eliza Woodmore, claim £39 17s Id, costs £3 11s 6d; P. Hamill and Co. v P. Ward, claim £1 12s 9d and costs 10s.

In a defended case, Samuel Richard Kingdon proceeded against Ernest George Hunt for possession of tenement and £2B 16s. A deferred order was made for possession within 7 days, 10s a week to be paid off the arrears ’of rental.