MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25303, 1 October 1947, Page 3

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

TUESDAY (Before Mr H. P. Lawry, S.M.) REMANDED Leo John Martin, a watersider, aged 26, was remanded to appear on October 6 on a charge of being found without lawful excuse on enclosed premises at Rolleston House on September 29. Harold Hamilton, a gardener, aged 41, was remanded to appear on October 6 on a charge of breaking and entering by day the dwelling-house of William McQueen at Lake Lyndon on September 28, and committing theft. Leslie Robert Thompson, an airman, aged 21, who was charged with the theft at Weedons on April 1 of two navigators’ wrist watches valued at £24, the property of the Royal New Zealand Air Force, was remanded to appear on October 6. On a charge of receiving one wristlet watch valued at £l2 from Thompson, knowing it to have been dishonestly obtained, William George Lapham, an airman, aged 23, was also remanded to appear on October 6.

Both accused are to be kept in the custody of the Royal New Zealand Air Force until that date.

Frederick Ronald Beale (Mr J. K. Moloney), described as a dealer, aged 54, was charged with being a rogue and a vagabond, in that, being a suspected person, he frequented St. Andrew’s Hill road with felonious intent on September 27. He pleaded guilty. Detective-Sergeant A. A. Herron said that accused was found loitering on St. Andrew’s Hill road by the police shortly after the owners of a house had found him on their premises and chased him away. When interviewed, accused said he had not entered the house.

Accused was not a rogue and a vagabond, as he had an occupation. He was a dealer, said Mr Moloney. On the night of September 27 accused had set out to go to a party, and he had a lot of liquor. He did not recollect breaking into or entering any house. He came from a respectable family, and had only been in trouble once before, for stealing a shirt when he was very young. The accused was remanded to appear on October 6. in order that a report could be made by the probation officer (Mr W. H. Darby). Bail was allowed in accused’s own recognisance of £lOO, and one surety of £5O. TRAFFIC OFFENCES Fines were imposed as follows, unless otherwise stated, on offenders against the traffic regulations:— No warrant of fitness: Robert William Allen, 10s; Athol James Jamieson, ss. Incorrect parking: Victor Albert Anderson, 10s (no Warrant of fitness, 10s); Dorothy Margaret Gibbard, 10s; John Francis Henderson, 10s; Ella Murray Wilson, 10s. Cycling at night without a light: Hugh Douglas Annett, £1; Noel Lawrence Blackmore, 10s; Elsie Partridge, 10s. No “L” plates: Gerald Sylvester Barley, £1 (no warrant of fitness, ss). Operating unlicensed heavy traffic vehicle: Maurice R. Carter, £1; Gough, Gough, and Hamer, Ltd., £l. Exceeding 30 miles an hour in restricted area: Maurice James Costello, £2 (failing to signal a right turn, 10s; failing to give way to right, 30s); William Hamilton Noonan, £5 (no driver’s licence, £1; no warrant of fitness, 10s; refusing to give name and address, £3).

Licence label not affixed: Horace Vernon Curtis, £1; John Packman Muldoon,

Failing to gilre way: William Eyes, £1; Francis Albert Wheeler, £l. Parking over time limit: William Henry Fenner, 10s; Albert John Hutchinson, 10s (no driver’s licence, 10s); Roy Johnstone, 10s; Desmond Jack Richardson, 10s; William Steven Tredennick, 10s; Eric Claude Vaughan, 10s; Peter Hallows Wood, 10s; Sheila Emily Tennent, 10s. Cycling on footpath: William Ford, 10s. Permitting unauthorised person to drive hired rental car: Terence Nicolas Hennessy, £l.

Parking in prohibited area: Harold Owen Hills, 10s; Frederick Chard Mann, 10s; Laura Millett Matthews, 10s; Doris Trelease Maxwell, 10s; John Norman Oakley, 10s (no warrant of fitness, 10s); Joyce Tilley, 10s; Leith James Kincaid, convicted and discharged. Obstructing fire plug: Joyce Johnston, 10s (incorrect parking, costs only); Trevor King, ss; Florence Mary Staniland, 10s. No driver’s licence: Clifford Mort Kerr, 10s; Godfrey McConchie, 10s (no warrant of fitness, 10s; John Henry Walter, 10s. Driving vehicle other than that specified on licence: Ronald James Kingston, 10s. Driving motor-cycle at night without lights: Arthur O’Brien, £3 (no warrant of fitness, 10s). No silencer on motor-cycle: Alan Victor O’Neill, £1 (no warrant of fitness, 10s). No warrant of fitness for trailer: Leslie John Rhodes, 10s.

Cycling without hands on handle-bars: Norman Simpson, £l. Parking without lights: Norman Eric Taylor, £1; Seffried Sydney Thompson, £1 (no warrant of fitness, 10s). Traffic offences brought by the Transport Department were dealt with as follow :

No warrant of fitness: Ernest Alexander Clydesdale, 10s; Arthur Henry Martin. 10s. Defective lights: Alexander James Latto, £2 (no warrant of fitness, 10s). Unlicensed motor vehicle: Russell James Scobie, £1 (no driver’s licence, £1; unlicensed motor vehicle, £3). Unregistered motor vehicle: Norman Ray well Withell, £3. No heavy traffic licence: Swarbrick’s Dairy, Ltd., £2. CIVIL CASES (Before Mr Raymond Ferner, S.M.) DEFAULT JUDGMENTS Judgment for the plaintiffs by default was given in the following cases:—Donald Houston Maclean v. Herbert E. Foote, 10s; Armstrong and Farr v. J. T. Williams, £3 ss; Dominion Builders’ Supplies (Christchurch), Ltd. v. B. Birchfield, £219 17s 9d; Hay’s, Ltd. v. S. A. Ferguson, £2 16s sd;. W. W. Keighley and Company, Ltd. v. P. V. Ford, £8 19s 2d. JUDGMENT SUMMONSES On judgment summonses W. Brown was ordered to pay Mary Catherine Hanham the sum of’£l6 4s 6d, in default 17 days’ imprisonment, the warrant to be suspended as long as defendant pays the sum of £1 a week. Gordon John Hammond was ordered to pay the State Advances Corporation of New Zealand the sum of £6 7s 9d, in default seven days’ imprisonment, the warrant to be suspended as long as defendant pays £1 a week.