MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25884, 17 August 1949, Page 8

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

TUESDAY (Before Mr Raymond Ferner, S.M.) BORSTAL SENTENCES “You were given the advantage of probation but later you were again in trouble for theft, and here yqu come again on two charges of theft. It is quite clear that you need something firmer than probation,” said the Magistrate when sentencing Desmond Keenan, aged 19, a factory hand, to two years in a borstal institution on charges of stealing £l, the property of John Albert Murphy, and of stealing £2, the property of Edric Joseph Wilkinson. Detective-Sergeant G. W. Alty said that Keenan had taken the money from coats belonging to work-mates. On a charge of failure to comply with a probation order, Keenan, was convicted and discharged. “I feel it is time to keep this boy in an institution before he becomes a member of the criminal class. Warnings have had no effect on him,” said the Magistrate when Edward George Hawker, aged 18, a store assistant (Mr W. R. Lascelles) appeared on a charge of stealing £4, the property of Edward George South. Hawker was ordered to be detained in a Borstal institution for two years. TRAFFIC OFFENCES Penalties were imposed as stated in the following prosecutions for breaches of the traffic regulations:— Parking over time limit: Stanley Percival Barnett, 10s; Victor Beaumont, 20s; Ross McLean Broadbent, 10s (no warrant of fitness, 10s); Francis William Crawford, 10s; William Frederick Dempsey, 10s; Christian De Rink, 10s; Angus Jack Donaldson, 10s; June Gebbie, 10s; Alister Kenneth McKenzie Gordon, 10s; Dorothy Olga Hall, 10s (failure to produce warrant of fitness, 10s); Leonard Charles Hopping, 10s; Rodney Brian Lovell-Smith, 10s; Annie Ward Montgomery, 10s; Adrian Craven Nettleton, 10s; Ashley Bruce Parlane, 10s; Duncan Edward Purse, 10s; Jessica Alice Sparkes, 20s; Douglas Dick Turner, 10s; Arthur Noel Walker, 20s; Joan Mary Ward, 10s. No warrant of fitness: Maurice Raymond Blank, 10s; Raymond Arthur Gurney, 10s; Ronald Griebel, 10s (no footrests on motor-cycle, 10s). Exceeding speed limit: John Calder, £2; Basil Gibbons, £2; Patrick John Glassenbury, 20s; Christopher Hammond, £2; Robert Wilson, £3; Trevor Thomas Marquet, £2; Dcnzil Glue, 30s; John Warburton Scott, £2; William McSkimming, £2; Raymond Arthur Taylor, £2 10s; William Smith, £3; Sydney Wicks, £2 10s. Riding an unlighted cycle at night; Ernest Albert Frame, 20s (no white mudguard, 10s; no rear red reflector, costs only); Frank Gantley, 20s; Mervyn Harris, 20s (no rear red reflector, 10s); Kenneth Raymond Francis Hunt, 20s; Douglas Kennedy, 20s; Vincent McGillivray, 10s (no rear red reflector, 10s); Francis Cornelius O’Brien, 10s; Harry Joseph Swann, 10s; George Patrick Xavier, 20s (no rear red reflector, 10s). Parking on prohibited area: Isabel Holdsworth, 10s; Sidney Howman, 10s; Helen Angela Meares, 10s. Failure to give way to school patrol; Francis Keith Irwin, £3. Failure to give way to the right: Robert Clarence Mawer, £2. No driver’s licence: Percy Tyler, 20s; Russell Roy Odgers, 20s. Breach of driving hours: W. A. Habgood, Ltd., £2; Norman Charles Stevenson, £2. Wrongly adjusted lights: Dennis Anselan Buchanan, 20s. Defective silencer on motor-cycle: Harold Tyson Humm, 20s. CIVIL CASE (Before Mr F. F. Reid, S.M.) Judgment was given for plaintiff by default for £53 Is 5d in the case of W. J. Scott and Company, Ltd., v. W. J.. Heybourn. The amount was the balance of a sum owing.