MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 October 1940, Page 6

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

MASTERTON SITTING TODAY. LIQUOR NEAR DANCE HALL. The fortnightly sitting of the Masterton Magistrate’s Court was held in the Courthouse this morning. Mr H. P. Lawry, S.M., was on the Bench. On charges of possessing liquor in the vicinity of a dance hall in Masterton on September 13, John Cruickshank, Roy Alexander Morris and Bernard Joseph Savage were fined £2 12s, £2 10s and £2 10s respectively. Senior-Sergeant G. A. Doggett stated that as a result of complaints he had received concerning the noise being made by people attending the Young Farmers’ dance in' the Municipal Hall on September 13, he had made investigations with Constable R. L. Hollis and informations had been laid. Mr R. R. Burridge, appearing for, Morris and Savage, entered pleas of not guilty. He pointed out that both men hadTeft the dance. The quantity of liquor involved was a full and a partly emptied bottle of beer. Morris would leave for camp with the Fourth Reinforcements today. Senior-Sergeant Doggett pointed out that the complaints received did not arise from the defendants’ conduct. Vivian Herbert Percy Jorgenson was fined £l.and 10s costs on a charge of casting offensive matter in Jackson Street. Lola Evelyn McGregor was fined 5s and 10s costs for failing to give the required signal that she was about to drive a vehicle out from the kerb. Arthur Owen Byrne was fined. 10s and 10s costs for driving a vehicle without having a drivers’ licence. On a second charge of failing to carry a warrant of fitness Byrne was fined £1 and 10s costs. Mr W. G. Milne, of the Transport Department, proceeded against F. B. Gray for operating a heavy motor vehicle on . the Opaki-Masterton main highway without having obtained a heavy traffic licence. The defendant was fined £1 and 10s costs. On a second charge, that the load he carried on the vehicle extended further backwards than 9 feet Gins, behind the axle of the rear wheels, Gray was fined £2 and 10s costs. CIVIL BUSINESS. Judgment for plaintiff Iby default was given in the following undefended civil claims:—-Thomas Wagg and Co Ltd v Philip Rollings, claim £6 6s, costs £1 13s 6d; Thomas Hanley v Ken Jones, claim 7s Gd, costs 10s; T. Wagg and Co., Ltd v A. H. Ashdown, claim £l3 18s 4d, costs £2 16s; T. Wagg and Co., Ltd v J. McLaren, claim £7 13s lid, costs £1 10s Gd; Masterton Borough Corporation v Alan V. Jury, claim £1 9s, costs 3s. , In a judgment summons order Bartholomew John Kelleher was ordered to pay the N.Z. Farmers’ Co-op. Distributing Co., Ltd., £l3 7s 2d, in default 12 days’ imprisonment.