MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25391, 14 January 1948, Page 4

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

TUESDAY (Before Mr Raymond Ferner, S.M.) TERM OF IMPRISONMENT Leslie Gordon Alexander Wilson, aged 25, and Russell James Ross, aged 22, both soldiers, who were represented by Mr D. J. Hewitt, pleaded guilty to a charge of unlawfully converting to their own use a motor-car valued at £2OO, the property of Jack Churchill Crew. Detective-Sergeant A. A. Herron said that the accused were members of the regular Army. On December 24, they were in Christchurch, on leave from Burnham, and had a few drinks. They took the car and drove it to Nelson, where they were arrested. Mr Hewitt said that Wilson had been in the Army for eight years and had served overseas. The liquor they took affected both men adversely and they foolishly took the car to Nelson. They

were willing to make restitution. i “The defendants must know that the • penalty for car conversion is imprisonment,” said the Magistrate, when sentencing each man to six weeks’ imprisonment with' hard labour. REMANDED Richard Alexander Meiklejohn, aged 19, an Air Force trainee, pleaded guilty to & charge of unlawfully converting to his own use a motor-cycle, valued at £5O, the property of Harald Kean. He also pleaded guilty to stealing the sum of £4 10s, the property of Noel Ralph Chambers. Detective-Sergeant A. A. Herron said that the accused was short of money and, between December 24 and January 4, he stole money left with milk bottles at the State houses at Riccarton. He was caught by the milk vendor, who was lying in wait to find out who was stealing the money. The motor-cycle was taken by Meiklejohn to get back to Wigram, and he hid it behind a fence. He took a detective to where he had left it.

Meiklejohn was remanded to Thursday for sentence, pending a report by the probation officer. James Trevor Morgan, aged 23, a motordriver, was remanded to January 20 on a charge of stealing a wireless set and a bottle of sherry, of a total value of £25 10s 6d, the property of Patrick John Sheridan. He was allowed bail in his

own recognisance of £lOO and one surety of £lOO, or two sureties of £5O each, and ordered to report daily to the police. Robert Frederick Woodstock, aged 24, a labourer, was remanded to January 20 on a charge of stealing a suiicase and contents. valued at £2O, the property of Desmond Lowe. He was allowed bail in his own recognisance of £lOO and one surety of £lOO, or two sureties of £5O, and ordered to report daily to the police. TRAFFIC BREACHES

The following penalties were imposed for traffic breaches:— Exceeding 30 miles an hour: Huntly Christie Anderson, £3; John Charles Paterson, £2; John Stevenson, £3 (no driver’s licence, 10s); Geoifce Thomson Angus, £3 (no warrant of fitness, 10s); Bruce Britten, £3; Stephen D. Johnson, £2; Eric Alexander Miller, £3. Defective silencer: Basil Henry Campion, 10s (no number plates attached, 10s; no warrant of fitness, 10s). No warrant of fitness: Ngaire Mary Hawkins, 10s; John Antony Kennedy, costs only; Thomas Clifford Smith, 10s. No vehicle authority carried: R. A. and F. E. Witbrock, Ltd., costs only. Parking in prohibited area: Robert Armstrong, 10s; Victor Beaumont, 10s; Yatala Bayne Brake, costs only; Alfred McLennen Jones, 10s; Mabel L. Orbell, 10s; Thomas George Ruthven, 10s; Finn Peter Sivertsen, 10s (no warrant fitness, costs only); John Rannie Ward, 10s. Cycling at night without a light: John R. Bridgeman, 20s; David Charles Wakeham, 10s. Parking over time limit: Frederick William Barrett, costs only (no warrant of fitnpss. 10s); John Charles Bills, 10s; Edmond Mervyn Garrett, 10s; Cyril Fletcher Maitland, 10s; Robert Joseph McGuire. 10s: William Carson Paterson. 10s; Clifford Keith Perry, 10s; James lan Wilkinson. No driver’s licence: Charles Norman Baxter. 20s (no warrant of fitness. 10s). ™ lr L co .7 ec JL parking: Percy Stanley Nicholls, 20s; Frederick E. Parsons, 10slain Morrell Weir, 10s. Cycling without hands on handle-bars-Richard Harnett, 20s. 20 f ai > ng to dip H B hts: Dorothy Millar, No silencer: Borrie Perryman, 20s (no driver s licence. 20s, no warrant of fitness 10s): Brian Wealleans, 20s (no warrant of fitness 10s, no "L” plates 10s). Parking witMn six feet of fire plugDavid Henry Reed, 10s. 8 Passing stationary tram: Edward Ray Trenberth, 20s. T ?° gi X. e wa y to right: Albert John Yeatman, _2os.