MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 September 1938, Page 8

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

FORTNIGHTLY MASTERTON SITTING. POLICE AND BY-LAW CASES. Mr H. P. Lawry, S.M., presided at the fortnightly sitting of the Masterton Magistrate’s Court, held this morning. Riding a bicycle without a light after dark cost William Nielson 10s and 10s costs. For parking a motor-car otherwise than parallel to the roadway, Alister McWilliam was fined 5s and 10s costs. “This man has a number of previous convictions,” remarked Mr V. Burridge, when referring to a charge of allowing stock to wander in the streets preferred against Thomas Patrick O’Neil. Defendant was convicted and fined £1 and 10s costs and solicitors fee 10s 6d. Ivan John Ingley entered a plea of guilty to a charge of driving a motorcar in Queen Street without due care . and attention. He was convicted and fined £1 and 10s costs. Albert G. Wallis was charged that at Tinui during March he did make alterations and additions to a building without obtaining a permit and further .hat he erected a water closet without making provision for connecting the drain through which the waste matter passed to an approved sewerage tank. Mr T. Jordan, who appeared for the informant, said Ihe Health Inspector discovered the (wo breaches in July. The first charge was of carrying out alterations and additions without first obtaining a permit. The second charge war. much more serious. A water closet had been erected in the men’s quarters and the sewerage directed into a near-' by stream. That had been going on from March to July. A similar practice was in force in connection with another closet and “apparently the workmen thought that what was good for he boss was good for the men.” Mr 1. A. Hart, who appeared for defendant, said that his client had been asked to send out two men to carry out repairs to the men’s bathroom. He was pot aware that any alterations or additions were to be effected until after the job had been finished. Referring to the second, charge-. Mr Irnrl said that it had been the practice in the past to run the refuse from the house in an open shoot into a deep hole in the creek The men had replaced the wooden shute with a cast-iron pipe. From the water closet in the men'.juartdrs a cast-iron pipe had been carried to the water’s edge. Actually the condition of the sewerage was improved. and it was just as healthy as a septic tank. Mr Lawry: “Were the men who did '.he work registered sanitary plumbers?” Mr Jordan: “No.” Mr Lawry: “Well, that makes it worse.” On the first charge defendant was convicted and fined £l, 10s costs and 10s 6d solicitor’s fee and on the second £5, 10s costs and solicitor’s fee £1 Is. “I am not at all satisfied that this woman was engaged as a cook,” stated Mr Lawry, when giving judgment for defendant in a case in which the Inspector of Factories and Awards proceeded against Alexander White for failing to pay award wages to a cook and failing to keep a wages book. Donald Raymond Vibert was fined £3 and 10s costs for operating a motor vehicle without a proper number plate. For allowing a chimney to catch fire, Edith Morris was fined 5s and 10s costs. Edgar George Lay was convicted and fined £5 and 10s costs for exceeding the maximum load on a motor lorry. Not having a warrant of fitness cost Ronald Pavitt Brown 10s and 10s costs and for parking a car otherwise than parallel to the kerb he was fined 5s and 10s costs.