MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 26986, 11 March 1953, Page 3

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

TUESDAY (Before Air Rex C. Abernethy, S.M.) FINE FOR DRUNKENNESS Herbert Joseph Young, a seaman and cook, aged 39, pleaded guilty to a charge of being found drunk in Manchester street on Monday evening, having been twice convicted of similar offences in the last six months. He was convicted and fined £3, in default seven days’ imprisonment. The defendant also pleaded guilty to charges of wilfully damaging a window valued at £2, the property of Robert John Leslie Cole, and of procuring liquor during the currency of a prohibition order. He das convicted and ordered to make restitution ol the amount of the damage on the first of these charges, and ordered to pay costs on the second. Senior-Sergeant J. C. Fletcher said the defehdant had broken a window for no apparent reason in the hotel where he was staying. He had been drinking at the time, and did not remember much of what had happened. The Magistrate told the defendant that he was heading for Roto Roa Island if he did not decide to leave the drink alone. The defendant asked for time in which to pay, but this was refused. TRAFFIC OFFENCES Penalties were imposed as follows in prosecutions for traffic breaches brought by the Transport Department:— Exceeding 30 miles ah. hour in gazetted area: Geoffrey Edwin R. Atkinson, £3; Robert Alderson, £2; John Young Alexander, 30s; Maurice Cuthbert Bailey, £2; Victor George Beck, £2; Matthew Weir Comber, 30s; Alfred Murray Cooper, £2; Kenneth Albert Wallace Doell, £2; James Flynn Dromore, £2; Alexander Bruce Duncan, £2; John Stewart Hunter, 30s; Eric John Hyde, £2; James Gordon Kirk, £2; Allan James Kircher, £2; James Falconer Kinghorn, £2; Kenneth Charles King, £2; Julia Helen Langley, £2; David Gordon Lattimer, £2; Clarence James McManus, £1; William Stephen Minehan, costs only; Brian Frederick Newman, £2; Donovan Gustav Nyhan, 30s; Ronald Leonard Oates, £2; Joseph Edward Penrose, £2; Jack Pritchard, 30s; Joan Paton Robinson, £2; Joseph William Rowe, 30s; John Childers Saunders, £2; Arthur John Sanders, £2 10s; Neil Trevena Stanton, £2; Duncan Stewart, £2; John Edward Triggs, £2; Alfred Vessey, 30s; James Gilbert Wright, £2; Ralph Van Ysselsteyn, 30s; James Robert Johnston, 30s. No warrant of fitness: Albert Leonard Byfield, 10s (operating unlicensed vehicle, 10s); Jack Newton, 15s: John Bennett Noble, 10s (failing to display L plates, £1; carrying pillion passenger while a learner, £1); Walker’s Service Station, 10s on each of two charges. Driving without due care and attention: Leo Ignatius Loyola O’Sullivan. £3. The following penalties were imposed In prosecutions brought by the traffic department of the Christchurch City Council:— Exceeding 30 miles an hour: Trevor Athol Atkinson, £3; Norman Barlow, £5; Francis Denis Cantwell, £2; Norman Lindsay Empson, £2; Roland Frank Robert Ireland, £3; John Alan Jackson, £3; Reida Strother MacDougall, £4; Alan Angus McNab, £2; George Ronald Milne, £2; George Henry Riley, £2; David Petrie Souter, £2. No warrant of fitness: John Allan Covacich, 15s; Douglas James Elliott, 10s; Lester Edward Restall Hillier, 15s. Passing rear of stationary tram: James Charles Baker, £3. Cycling at night without light: John Raymond Cookson, £l. Failing to give way to traffic approaching from the right: Francis John William Blom, £2; Roy Boothby Timlin, £2. Failing to display L plates: Graeme Russell Breach, £1 (carrying pillion passenger when restricted by a learner’s licence, £1; no footrests on motor-cycle, costs only). Driving vehicle other than specified on licence: Vincent Charles Gray, 30s. Parked to close to corner: John Charles Lund, 10s. Parked within 3ft of another parked vehicle: Owen Raymond Morrall. 10s. Not drawn in to kerb: William John Cope, costs only. Stopped on outside of another stopped vehicle: Douglas Alexander English, 10s; Gerald Thompson, 10s. CIVIL CASE (Before Mr F. F. Reid, S.M.) CLAIM FOR DAMAGES The Magistrate reserved his decision on a claim by Oswald Anderson, a storeman clerk (Mr P. T, Mahon) for £309 12s 6d damages from Hugh Campbell Steel, licensee of the Star and Garter Hotel (Mr C. S. Thomas). The claim was for injuries to a hand which Anderson suffered on December 18, 1950, when he slipped in some beer on a linoleum floor while employed as a casual barman. Anderson .said he had been walking across the foyer of the hotel from the lounge after collecting some empty glasses. He slipped in a pool of beer and fell to the floor. Some of the glasses broke and severely cut his right hand. Stitches were put into the hand, and he had massage treatment. This was not successful, and two months later his little finger was amputated. He was unable to grip things properly with the hand. The defendant said he used a polish on the floor of the foyer which was generally recognised as less slippery than most. He had seen a small pool of beer on the floor after Anderson’s fall, but thought it likely that it had come from the glasses he had been carrying.