MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25678, 15 December 1948, Page 3

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

TUESDAY (Before Mr Raymond Ferner, S.M.)

, INTOXICATED IN CHARGE This is a case where the medical aspects and the accused’s service to his co .’i n *P r must be taken into account,” said the Magistrate, when convicting John r ° on ri °'C Onnor 1 a war pensioner, aged cz. Mr B. J. Drake, who pleaded not guilty a charge of being found drunk in enarge of a motor-car in Tuam street. . Scott said he had been called Station about midnight on uecember 9 to examine the accused. He considered he was not in a fit state to anye a car. He said that an anxiety new* iosis, from which accused was suffering, would, to some extent, account for nis condition, but it was due in the mam to excessive alcohol. Constable P. Q. Foley said he saw accused walking unsteadily round his car m Tuam street about 11.30 p.m.. He said he was going to drive the car to his home in Sumner. The witness said he had given accused some tests and had then asked accused to drive the car along the road. He had not driven it .satisfactorily.

Mr Drake said accused had a good war record and after his discharge from the Royal New Zealand Air Force he suffered from an anxiety neurosis. He was apt to become highly agitated. The Magistrate fined accused? £1 and cancelled his driving licence for 12 months.

ADMITTED TO PROBATION Raymond Lloyd Mclntyre, a railway employee, aged 37 (Mr B. J. Drake), was convicted and admitted to probation for two years subject to restitution of the s H m £3 10s within one month, on a charge of stealing, on December 10, the sum of £lO. the property of Charles Edwin Bezar.

Accused, who was employed as a cleaner in the Waltham yards, had found an envelope containing three £5O notes and three £5 notes - said Detective-Sergeant A. B. Tate. He had returned the envelope to the lost property offico, where Bezar had recovered it. Complainant had found later that the three £5 notes were missing. When interviewed accused admitted taking two £5 notes. He still had £6 10s of the amount, and said he had spent the rest. “Accused has been 95 per cent, honest, said Mr Drake, asking for leniency. "He might well have taken the whole amount with impunity.” FINED James O’Brien, a labourer, aged 41. was fined £2 on a charge of being found drunk in a public place, having been convicted of a similar offence within the last six months. REMANDED IN CUSTODY Ethel Wilkie, a hotel worker, aged 21. who appeared on two charges, one ot stealing, on Deceniber 11, two packets of cigarettes of a toUal value of Is Bd, the property of Edna '.Josephine Brown, and one of being idle end disorderly in that she had insufficient lawful means of support, was remanded in custody until December 17, pending a report from the Probation Officer.

TRAFFIC REGULATIONS Offenders against the traffic regulations were fined as follows in cases brought by the traffic department of the Christchurch City Council:— Cyclist, accepting tow: Douglas Peter Stephenson, 10s. Obstructing vehicular entrance: William Cleaver Ancell, 20s; Stanley Garrick Livingstone, 20s; Cyril D. Rowe, £2. Exceeding 30 miles an hour: Francis Bradford Lewis, £3; Hector Riach, £2; Peter Wilson. £2. Parking offside stopped vehicle: Leslie Harold Brake, 10s (no warrant of fitness, 10s); Robert Clemence, 10s (not displaying two registration plates. 10s); Charles Greenwood, 10s. No driving licence: Trevor William Brook, 20s (no warrant of fitness, 10s). Incorrect parking: Keith Henslowe Cheesman, 10s: Morris James Graham, 10s (no warrant of fitness, 10s); John Harold Harris, £2. Obstructing fire plug: Violet Grace Clucas, 10s. Parking over time limit: Colin G. Cook, 10s; James Henry Cook, 20s; Alice Evelyn Davis, 10s; Robert Ennis Dunne, 10s; Alan Campion Felton, 10s; Noel Haigh Finney, 20s; Humphrey Reward, 10s; Durham Dowell Hunter, costs only; Esme Netta Mathews, 10s; Peter John Kay Partridge, 10s; Alfred Leslie Turnbull, 10s; Zoey Nyra Whiley, 10s. Cycling without a light: Thomas Albert Cook, 20s; Reginald John Hunt, 10s (no hands on handlebars. 20s); Lester Ironside, 20s; Malcolm Randall, 20s; Stanley Alfred Vallens, 20s: Vernon Royal Walker. £2; Arthur Edwin Smith, 20s (no rear red reflector, costs only). Parking in prohibited area: Laurence Peter Devlin, 10s; Herbert Edward Holmes, 10s; Harold Watkin Jones, 10s; Frederick James Marsh, 10s; Alan Patrick McNamara, 10s; David Walter Tisch, 10s, Charles Barton Whitmore, 10s. No heavy traffic licence: Wilber Henry Dodge, 10s (no warrant of fitness, 10s). Driving without due care and attention: Robert Goodchild. £5. No warrant of fitness: Thomas William Heaney, 10s. Cycling without hands on handlebars: Allan Murphy, 20s. Driving in a dangerous manner: Kenneth Power, £5; John Albert Warman, £5.

Fines were imposed as follows in cases brought by the Transport Department:— No heavy traffic licence: Avon Transport Service, 20s. Exceeding speed limit: Ronald Stuart Alexander. £3; Frank Lyman. £2; Robert Archibald McAdam. £2; Roland Fleming Seadley, £2; Leonard Alfred Pepper. £6. Passing stationary tram: Harold Selwyn Carter, £2. Unlicensed vehicle: Ivan Frederick Roberts, 15s (no warrant of fitness. 20s). Exceeding heavy traffic licence: William Henry Robinson, £3. No driving licence: Colin Maitland Stocker, 20s