MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23412, 20 August 1941, Page 3

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

TUESDAY (Before Mr E. C. Levvey, S.M.) STOLEN WIRELESS SET

Sydney Roy Tolchard was charged with stealing a wireless set valued at £2O 9s, the property of Robert Francis, Ltd. He pleaded guilty. Detective-Sergeant J. McClung said that the accused had obtained the wireless set under a fictitious name, by a hire-purchase agreement. He had made no payments beyond the first, of 10s, and had later sold the set for £4. Tolchard had previously been before the Court for theft. . The Magistrate sentenced Tolchard to two months’ imprisonment with hard labour, , TWO MONTHS’ IMPRISONMENT A sentence of imprisonment for two months was imposed on Leonard Thomas Dromgool, aged 26, when he pleaded guilty to a charge of converting a motor-car, valued at £l5O, the property of Albert Weston -Bond. Detective-Sergeant McClung said that Di'omgool had taken the motorcar from the city and driven a girl to Addington. He later returned and abandoned the motor-car in a city street, where it was recovered undamaged. Detective-Sergeant McClung said that Dromgool had two previous convictions for the same type of offence. ■ • REMANDED William John Spratt (Mr P. H. T. Alpers), a land agent, aged 55, was charged that on or about July 11, having received from Lawrence Henry Grammer the sum of £7OB 6s 3d on terms requiring him to account for or pay .the above sum to the Canterbury United Ancient Order of Foresters, he failed to do so, and thereby committed theft. On the application of DetectiveSergeant McClung the accused was remanded to appear on August 26. TWO CHARGES John Kerins, a labourer, aged 50, pleaded guilty to two charges, the first of having been found drunk in a public place on August 18, and the second of casting offensive matter in a public place. On the drunkenness charge he was ordered to pay costs only, and for casting offensive matter he was fined 20s, and ordered to pay costs. ‘ TRAFFIC CASES . No warrant of fitness: Eric Lawson Hann, ss; Errol Maxted, costs only; Halford Robert Parker, 10s; Harry Saville, 10s; John W. Townsend, 5s (no driver's licence, ss); Wilfred W. Wicks, 10s; Cyril R, Clarke, ss; John A. Fleming* ss, (no driver’s licence, 20s); John C. Le Page, costs only (no driver’s licence, ss); John L. McLeod, 10s; Ernest J. Rickerby, costs only; Allan D. Roberts. 20s; James Smith, ss; Samuel Switzer, 5s (no driver’s licence, 10s); Harold S. D. Wallis, ss; Adelaide Webb, costs only; William H. Whitworth, costs only (no driver’s licence, costs only). No driver’s licence: Horatio R. Bell, ss; Irene D. Hawkins, ss; Eric Robinsori, costs only. Speeding: Colin Ernest George Honeybone, dismissed; Frederick Ford, £2; Frederick Hill, £2; James G. White, 20s (no warrant of fitness, 10s). Disobeying traffic lights: John K. Burtt, costs only. Parking at a. angle: Frederick Wildman, 5s (no warrant of fitness, costs only). Parking over time limit; Gilbert W. Haverfleld, 20s. Parking in a prohibited area: Majorie R. Ferrier, 10s. Overloading heavy traffic vehicle: Smart and Sons, Ltd., £2. No heavy traffic licence: Frank Carr, £6 16s. Failing to signal turn: Robert R. Peterson, 20s. Cycling at night without a light: Leonard Percasky, 10s (no white rear mudguard, 10s). Cycling three abreast; Stanley Alderdice, ss. Wrong registration plates on motor-car: Leo Earl Taylor, 10s (no car insurance, costs only). < Insurance premium unpaid on motor vehicle: Frederick Kerr, 10s, (driving unregistered motor-car, £2; driving motor-car with .Inappropriate identification mark, 10s). Driving with an unlicensed trailer: Robert Millar Findlay, 20s. Driving without due care and attention: Gordon William Owers, £5. MONDAY (Before Mr A. A. McLachlah, S.M.) ARREARS OF MAINTENANCE William Barney Evans, for being in arrears of maintenance for his child to the extent of £2l 19s Id, was sentenced to imprisonment for three months. Benjamin Goslin, for being in arrears of maintenance for his three children to the extent of £l2, was sentenced to imprisonment for two months, the warrant to be suspended while 5s a week is paid for the next two months in addition to the current payments. After two months 2s 6d a week is to be paid off the arrears as well as the current payments. Sydney Roy Tolchard was sentenced to imprisonment for six months for being in arrears of maintenance for his wife to the extent of £l3B 6s. The warrant was ordered to be suspended while 7s 6d a week is paid in addition to the current maintenance. Gordon Isaac Wardle, for being in arrears of maintenance for his wife to the extent of £67 16s 6d, was sentenced to imprisonment for three months,, the warrant to be suspended while 3s 6d a week is paid as well as the current payments. NEW ORDERS A maintenance order, at 15s a week for each of his two children, was made against Thomas Charles Archer, and he was ordered to pay £5 past maintenance within a month. Patrick Holland was ordered to pay maintenance for his wife and one child at the rate of £2 a week, and he was ordered to pay £2O past maintenance in payments of 5s a week. CIVIL COURT (Before Mr A. A. McLachlan) CLAIM FOR ALLEGED ASSAULT Brian Peters (Mr R. A. Young) claimed £l4 5s 8d from J. A. Young (Mr J. K. Moloney) for medical expenses and loss of employment, alleging that Young had assaulted him at Taylor’s Mistake on February 9. Peters claimed that the defendant had struck him on the face, causing a black eye, abrasions, amd nervous shocki The defendant, Young, a commercial traveller, said in evidence that on the day of the alleged assault, which was Kesteven Cup day, Peters had accosted him near the pavilion and accused him of throwing stones on the roof of Peters’s bach. Peters raised a five-gallon keg, threatening to throw it at witness. In warding off the keg, witness might have struck Peters, but there had been no assault. ■the Magistrate said it appeared that there had been a technical assault. He awarded "nominal damages” of £1 to the plaintiff, with the expenses of one witness, JUDGMENT FOR DEFENDANT In an action heard against the Neuchatel Asphalte Company (Australasia) (Mr C. S. Thomas), Gold Band Taxis, Ltd., claimed £llß 12s 9d, and John Nathaniel Scofield, a taxi-driver, £29 Bs. The plaintiffs were represented by Mr T, A. Gresson. In the early hours of the morning of March 27, Mr Gresson said, a taxi driven by Scofield crashed into a stationary unlighted road grader which was on the left-hand side of the Main South road, near the township of Hornby. Mr Gresson claimed that the accident, resulting in considerable damage to the taxi, had been caused by the negligence of the driver of the grader,'which was the property of the defendant company. In evidence Scofield, who suffered slight personal injury, said that after crossing the Hornby railway line at about 30 miles an hour he saw directly in front of him a vehicle, and although he braked hard he could not pull up In time to avoid an accident. The vehicle into which he crashed was a grader, unlighted and unattended. Carl Crampton, the driver of the grader, denied that the grader was unattended or stationary. Crampton also thought that the speed of the taxi was too high. The Magistrate, in giving judgment for the defendant company, said that in spite of several breaches of the law by the defendant company, he did not think that the accident would have been averted even if the grader had shown a tail-light. Also, the Magissaid, of Jhe taxfc*