MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 March 1943, Page 3

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

SITTING IN MASTERTON HOUSEHOLDER FINED. RUBBISH LEFT IN GARDEN. The fortnightly sitting of the Masterton Magistrate’s Court was held today. Mr H. P. Lawry, S.M., was on the Bench. R. Emerson was fined £1 and 10s costs, plus £1 Is solicitor’s expenses, on a charge of having deposited rubbish in a place other than that provided by law. The borough sanitary inspector, Mr T. A. Russell, said that he had inspected premises at 104 Perry Street which had been vacated by the defendant. The back of the place was in a filthy condition. There were heaps of rubbish and putrefying matter, tins, etc. Mrs Emerson admitted that the rubbish was theirs, and the defendant had cleared it away. Shirley Mason was fined £1 10s and 12s costs on a charge of having failed to give way to a motor vehcile on her right-hand side. Charles Porter was fined £1 and 12s costs on a charge of having exceeded the maximum speed limit (25 m.p.h.) for heavy motor vehicles. Transport (Wairarapa), Ltd., was fined 10s and 10s costs on a charge of having operated a vehicle which did not carry a vehicle authority. Inspector W. G .Milne, of the Transport Department, prosecuted in the two last-mentioned cases. . Civil Business. In a defended civil claim, Robert' Russell (Mr T. Jordan) versus C. E. Daniell, Ltd. (Mr H. H. Daniell), the Magistrate, Mr Lawry, found in favour of the plaintiff and awarded the amount of the claim, £22, plus £2 costs and £4 3s solicitor’s expenses. The claim arose out of a shop window being broken while the defendant company’s workmen were doing earthquake damage repair work. Judgment for plaintiff by default was given in the following undefended civil claims:—J. O. Pinching v. Robert Hiscox, claim £5, costs £1 11s; H. W. Rishworth v. M. Goodwin, claim £3 3s 6d, costs £2 6s; Public Trustee v. Alice Carol Stewart, claim £lO 17s 2d, costs £1 12s. ) In a judgment summons case, B. M. Phillips was ordered to pay Jenness * Goods Orders, Ltd., £6 18s 6d and 15s 6d solicitor’s expenses, in default six days’ imprisonment.