MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 October 1941, Page 5

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

SITTING IN MASTERTON MOTORING AND OTHER CASES. SEVERAL CIVIL CLAIMS. The fortnightly sitting of the Masterton Magistrate’s Court was held this morning. Mr H. P. Lawry, S.M.. was on the Bench. James Evan McKenzie Hulme (Mr R. R. Burridge) was fined 5s and 10s costs for having driven a motor car in Queen Street on September 20 without a tail-light. Richard Stuart Williams (Mr R. R. Burridge) was charged with having used the warning device on a motor vehicle, in Queen Street on September 20 other than as a reasonable traffic warning. Williams was also charged with having driven a motor vehicle without having a driver’s licence. A plea of guilty was entered. Senior-Sergeant G. A. Doggett stated that the charge was connected with the previous case. Williams had taken off his coat and said he wanted to fight the constable who had stopped Hulme. After the constable had spoken to Hulme, Williams drove the car away, blowing the horn furiously. Mr Lawry observed, in reply to Mr Burridge, that no charge had been brought in connection with Williams’s aggressiveness. He imposed a fine of £1 and 10s costs on the first charge and 10s and 10s costs on the second charge. Charged with speeding in Queen Street on September 19. Bruce James McGregor was fined £1 and 10s costs. The county ranger, Mr N. J. Gerrand, prosecuted Frank Price on five charges of having permitted stock to wander on the West Bush and Upper Manaia roads. On the first charge a fine of £ 1 and 10s costs, with solicitor’s fees £1 Is was imposed; on the second a fine of £1 and 10s costs, with solicitor’s fees 10s 6d; on the third charge the defendant was ordered to pay costs 10s; on the fourth charge a fine of £1 and 10s costs, with solicitor’s fees 10s 6d, was imposed, and on the fifth charge the defendant was convicted and ordered to pay 10s costs. Civil Business. Judgment for plaintiff by default was given in the following undefended civil claim: —Midland Garage, Masterton, Ltd. v W. J. C. Tyacke, claim £5 7s 6d, costs £1 Ils 6d. In a civil action the Wairarapa branch of the Amalgamated Society of Painters and Decorators’ Industrial Union, represented by Mr R. C. Jordan, sued A. M. Braggins (Mr J. Macfarlane Laing) for ss. Mr Lawry held that the rules submitted by Mr Jordan were not the rules of the union and he found foi’ the defendant, with costs. The Inspector of Awards proceeded against Transport Wairarapa, Ltd., for employing a non-unionist. Mr T. Jordan appeared for the defendant company. Mr Lawry found for the Inspector and gave judgment for £2. .