MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 September 1940, Page 6

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

SITTING IN MASTERTON

ASSAULT ON YOUTH. A FINE OF £5 IMPOSED. The fortnightly sitting of the Masterton Magistrate’s Court was held this morning. Mr H. P. Lawry, S.M.. presided. Willia/n George Barnett was ‘ fined £5 and 10s costs on a charge of assaulting Mervyn Maurice Keen, on August 24.

Mr R. R. Burridge appeared for Barnett and entered a plea of guilty. In outlining the case for the police, Senior-Sergeant G. A. Doggett stated that Keen was a youth of 15 years. He had gone to collect his cycle from an alleyway behind his father’s shop in Queen Street. As he walked out to the footpath he received a punch in the eye from the defendant. Keen gave no provocation nor did he speak to Barnett. The reply to his question for the reason of the attack was a hit in the mouth. Barnett had attended a football function and had consumed liquor.

Mr Burridge stated that Barnett was not used to consuming liquor and he 'could not account for his action. He did not know the youth and was extremely sorry for his action. An application for the suppression of Barnett’s name was refused. Walter Greenland was fined £1 and 10s costs for riding a bicycle through Queen Street without a light. Charged with failing to give way to a vehicle approaching on his right at the intersection of Queen Street and Lincoln. Road, William Simpson Steven was fined £1 10s and 10s costs.

Leslie Gray was fined £1 and Us costs on a charge of using a warning device on a motor car otherwise than as a traffic warning, on August 28. Allan George Wishart was fined £1 and 10s costs on a charge of casting offensive matter in the Central Arcade, Masterton, on August 24. On a charge of killing opossums during a close season, Henry Oakly was fined £5 and 10s costs. A charge of possessing . skins unlawfully was withdrawn. Stanley Peterson, Norman Jensen and Walter Jensen were fined £3 10s, £3 10s and £2 10s, respectively, on a charge of being in possession of liquor in the vicinity of the Tinui Hall on August 10, where a dance was in progress. CIVIL BUSINESS. Judgment for plaintiff, by default, was given in the following undefended civil cases: — F. C. Yule v Charles Henry, claim £l7 4s 6d, costs £3 14s; Pickering Bros v L. Daly, claim £2 2s, costs £1 6d 6d; W. E. Cody, Ltd v Cecilia O’Neille, costs only, 14s 9d; H. W. Rishworth v G. Harding, claim £1 2s 6d, costs 10s; P. Ryan v R. Wilkinson, claim 12s 6d, costs 9s; White and Co. v F. W. Morcley, claim £2 13s, costs £1 4s 6d; same v A. R. Popple, claim 18s 6d, costs 8s; same v Mary Carrig, claim £1 0s 3d, costs 9s; Thomas Hanley v J. W. Russell, claim £2, costs' £1 3s 6d.

In judgment summons cases N. Marshall was ordered to pay F. A. H. Taylor £4 19s 3d, costs £2 Ils 3d, in default 2 days’ imprisonment. Percy Wilfred Large was Ordered to pay Hallenstein Bros., Ltd., £6 8s 6d, in default 5 days’ imprisonment. Herbert Mortimer Robertson was ordered to pay Hallenstein Bros £6 19s lid in default 6 days’ imprisonment.