MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26512, 29 August 1951, Page 5

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

TUESDAY (Before Mr F. F. Reid, S.M.) IMPRISONMENT

On a charge of stealing on August 24 a gaberdine overcoat, valued at £IS, the property of Lawrence Coutts, Desmond Ivan Perrin, a cook, aged 44, was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment with hard labour. Accused was a musician and cook by occupation and had been practising the piano in one of Messrs Begg and Company’s studios, said Detective-Sergeant G. W. Alty. When he left he stole the overcoat from a cloakroom. His excuse was ( that he had lost an overcoat himself a week earlier. Accused had 30 previous convictions, all for dishonesty. BREACH OF PROBATION Alexander McGregor, aged 25. appeared for sentence on a charge that, being a person' released on probation, he committed a breach of the conditions of his prbationary licence in that he failed to report to the probationary officer and make regular payments by way of restitution.

McGregor was convicted and ordered to pay costs.

“When you appeared before on this charge you were given the benefit of a suspended sentence. Consideration was given to the fact that you were a new arrival in this country. If you come before the Court again you will be liable to a considerable term of imprisonment,” said the Magistrate. REMANDED

Thomas Samuel Rolls Wilson, aged 21 (Mr J. G. Leggat), was remanded to appear on September 3 on a charge of being Intoxicated in charge of a motor-car in Worcester street on August 28. Bail was allowed in the sum of £25 in accused's own recognisance. TRAFFIC OFFENCES

The Magistrate imposed the following fines on charges brought by the Transport Department:—

Exceeding speed limit: Ray Vernon Appleton, £3; Noel Hector Briggs, £1 10s; Thomas Brownlie, £2; Andrew Thomas Dawson, £3; Henry Francis Glover, £3; Hugh Hassan, £3; George Thomas Ives, £3; Harold William Kibblewhite, £2; Charles James Lane, £3; William McDonald. £3; Donald Michael Mitchell, £2; Burdett Post Nettleton, £2; Victor John Ryan, £3;. Thomas Duggan Scanlon, £4; Leslie Maurice Scott, £4; Edward Arthur Wright, £2. No warrant of fitness: Keith William Barker, 20s; Cecil Charles Devine, 10s on each of two charges; Frederick Harold Edwards, 10s; Stanley Spencer, 10s (unlicensed motor vehicle, 20s). No heavy traffic licence: Ronald James Boyd, 20s. Passing stationary tram: Lester Gerald Gibson. £2.

Carelessly riding cycle: James Kirkpatrick, 20s. Failing to dip lights: Ronald Keith McMeeking, £2; Robert Edward Muir, £3. No light on bicycle: Thomas Quaide, 20s; Lewis Robinson, 20s; Reginald Savill, 30s; Denis Mawson Wren, 20s (no red reflector, 10s); Hugh Wylie, 20s (no red reflector, 10s; no white surface at rear of bicycle, 10s). e ■? d £ ver ’ s licence: Walter Russen Scobie, 20s (no warrant of fitness, 20s), Insufficient lights: Frank Shuter, £2. On charges brought by the traffic department of the Christchurch City Council the following penalties • were imposed :

Parking offences: Hugh Grant Anderson. 20s; Irene Isobel May Archer, 10s; Roy Lee Armstrong, 10s; Lawrence Frank Beauvais, 20s; Terrence William Blackford, 10s; Ethel N. Cape-Williamson, 20s; David Clinton, 10s; Frederick Arthur Leslie Cookson, 10s; Kevin Joseph Daly, 10s; Cecil Roy Davenport, 10s; James Preston Davies, 10s; William Trevor Gifford. 10s: Robert Gillies Grant, 10s; Jessie Margaret Heywood, 20s (no warrant of fitness, 20s»; Graeme Booth MacDonald, 10s; Maxwell Lloyd Marshall, 10s (no warrant of fitness, 10s; no driver's licence, costs only); Thomas Hugh Mitchell. 30s; William Morris, 10s; Thomas James Allison Marshall, 10s; lan Hamilton Nimmo, convicted and discharged; Alfred Henry James Pedder, 10s; Victor Gordon Stanley Ritchie, 20s; Alan Frederick Roberts. 20s; Benjamin Howard Carter Rumble, 10s (no driver’s licence, 10s); Sidney Lawrence Searle, 10s; John Shaw, 20s; Hedley Steer, costs only; Roy Edgar Taylor, 10s; Frederick Warmoll Thrower, 20s (no warrant of fitness, costs only); Russell John Toon, 10s; Leonard Claude Travers, 20s; Ernest Onslow Trerlse, 20s; Rayner Keith Vile. 10s; Margaret Mary Watson, 10s; James Howard Samuel Webb, 10s; Sedley George Wells, 20s.

Exceeding speed limit: Neville Charles Britt. £5; Hector George Fowler, £2; Ernest Vivian Murray, £4 (failing to produce driver’s licence, costs only; failing to produce warrant of fitness, costs only); Cecil Murray Gilbert, £6; Desmond Gibson Palmer, £2; Noel Travia Perry, £3.

No warrant of fitness: David Ernest Burr, sen., 10s; John Llewellyn Down, 335; Tom Jeffrey Keetley, 10s; Douglas Charles Varnham, 10s. Driving without due care and attention: David Ernest Burr, jun., £2 (no driver’s licence, 20s); Eric Mackey Hobson, £1 10s.

Cycling without light: David Roy Collander, 20s; David Hamilton Heaps, 20s; Graeme Jeffrey Morrison, 20s (no rear red reflector, costs only; no rear white mudguard, costs only); Clarence Ivan Reid, 20s; John Francis Smith, 20s; David Francis Stewart, 20s; Lancelot Bruce Tolson, 20s.

No driver’s licence: Roderick George Chisholm, 20s; Murray Thomas Clephane, 10s; Edward Mclntyre. 10s; Trevor Graham Nelson, 10s; George Lester Thomson, costs only; Ethorn Horace Turner, 10s; Eric Waitis, 10s. Insufficient lights: Leo Francis Flood, 10s (no driver’s licence, 10s; failing to display L plates, 10s; carrying pillion passenger, 10s). Using motor-vehicle without due care and attention: Raymond Gordon Harwood, £2. Using motor-vehicle with obscured windscreen: Roger Ben Kepple, 20s, Passing stationary tram: Bruce Roderick McKenzie, £2. Cycling on footpath: Herbert Slater, 20s. Using unlicensed vehicle: Alfred Russell Ward, costs only. Failing to give way: Roy Leslie Wendt, £1 10s.