S.M. COURT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 October 1939, Page 8

S.M. COURT

$ SITTING AT MASTERTON. CHARGES AGAINST MOTORISTS. The fortnightly sitting of the Masterton Magistrate’s Court was held today, Mr H. P. Lawry, S.M., presiding. Charged with having permitted a chimney to catch fire, William Falconer was fined 10s and 10s costs. For having ridden a bicycle after sunset without showing a light, Albert Liidemann was fined 10s and costs I 10s. I Charged with having exceeded 30 miles per hour in a motor car in High Street. Arthur T. M. Sands was fined £2 and costs 10s. On similar charges Wallace Galloway and Harry Roberts Robinson were each fined £2 and costs. Albert John Long, charged with having been- the driver of a motor car which overtook another vehicle at an intersection, while that vehicle was travelling at more than six miles per hour was fined £1 and 10s costs. On a further charge of having failed to carry a warrant of fitness Long was 01 - dered to pay 10s costs. Charged with having failed to carry a warrant of fitness for his motorcycle, John Dell was fined £1 and 12s costs. On two charges of having acted as a broker by purchasing opossum skins without a license. Ernest James Lane was fined £2 and costs on each chai go. Further charged with unlawfully having opossum skins in his possession Lane was fined £5 and costs. CIVIL CASES. Judgment for plaintiff by default was given in the following civil cases: —Wairarapa Hospital Board v L. Renaldi, claim £9 13s Gd. costs £1 Ils Gd; W. Burridge and Son v W. ’ Brown, claim £3, costs £1 4s Gd. Annie McAliece was ordered to give I possession of a tenement to William L. R. Dorset, the warrant to be suspended for a month, and defendant to pay £1 Is per week until she vacated ■ the premises.