MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 March 1940, Page 6

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

FORTNIGHTLY MASTERTON SITTING. FURTHER WATER BREACHES. The fortnightly sitting of the Masterton Magistrate's Court was held this morning, Mr 11. p. Lowry, S.lvf., being on the Bench. Charged with using water for the purpose of watering or cultivating ground during the period when such watering was prohibited by a resolution of the Masterton Borough Council, the borough water inspector Mr A. E. Fellingham proceeded against John Francis Catherall, Francis Edmund Groube and Erie A. W. Pool. Catherall was fined £1 court costs Ils and 10s Gd solicitor's fees, and Groube and Pool wore each fined 10s and 10s court costs, solicitor's fees IDs Gd.

Mr R. R. Eurridge appeared for the Masterton Borough Council. On a charge of exposing sheep in the yards of the Masterton Associated Auctioneers infected with lice. Frank John Price was fined £2 and costs.

Hugh Morrison, who was charged with operating on January 10 a heavy motor vehicle along the MastertonCastlepoint main highway, before he had obtained a heavy motor traffic licence was fined £1 and 12s costs. On a second charge of operating a heavy traffic vehicle without being the holder of a warrant of fitness, defendant was ordered to pay 10s costs. The Borough Traffic Inspector. Mr J. McGregor, proceeded against R. D. McKelvie, Donald B. McLaughlin and Hitau Rewi for operating motor vehicles in lhe borough of Masterton (along High Street) at a speed exceeding 3t) m.p.h. McKclvie and McLaughlin were fined £2 and 12s costs and Rewi was fined £2 and 10s costs.

Mr McGregor also proceeded against Ronald David Banks for operating a heavy motor vehicle at Masterton on February 28, without having a heavy traffic licence. Banks was fined £2 and 10s costs. John Bolton was fined 10s and 12s costs for operating a vehicle without a warrant of fitness in the borough of Masterton.

Mr W. G. Milne, of the .Transport Department, proceeded against Geo. Edward Davenport for operating a motor vehicle at Ml. Bruce on January (i. without, having a* current driver's licence. Davenport was fined Ills and Ills costs.

William Rcniera was fined £1 ami 17s costs for carrying a person in front of a motor cyclo ho was driving in Masterton on January 15. Charged with riding a bicycle on a footpath in the borough of Masterton on February 23. Jean Simpson was fined 10s and 10s costs. Ou a similar charge Raymond Steer was lined lOs and 10s cosls. Kenneth Stanley Clement of Mauriceville. who was charged will, assaulting Mervyn James Stinonr causing him bodily harm, on March 2. was remanded to appear at. Masterton on April 11.

CIVIL. CASES Judgment for plaintiff by default, was given in-1 lie following undefended civil cases: —Lyall Thornton v Jack Brooks, claim £2 10s. costs £1 13s 6(1; Para Rubber Co v R. J. Terrill, claim, £l4 2s 7d. cosls £2 15s; Wairarapa Radios Lid v John Slewart. claim £3 18s, costs £1 4s (id; Wairarapa .Hospital Board v Olive Turner, claim £2 2s. cosls £1 5s 6d; Smith and Donovan Services v N. Fuller, claim £4 Is. cosls £1 Os (id. In a judgment summons order. H i Robinson was ordered to pay ,1. O.| Pinching the sum of £5 2s 7d in default i five days' irnptisonment.