MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27038, 13 May 1953, Page 3

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

TUESDAY (Before Mr Rex C. Abernethy, S.M.) REMANDED FOR SENTENCE Tutu Papawai Nihoniho, aged 17, a labourer, of Rangiora (Mr K. w. Frampton), pleaded guilty to three charges of unlawful conversion of motor vehicles and was remanded to Friday for a report from the Probation Officer. .Ball was allowed in the sum of £2o,ana one .surety of £lOO, Nihoniho to, report daily tq_the police. -An application for the interim suppression of his name was refusedThe charges were that on May 8, at Christchurch, Nihoniho converted a motor-cycle valued at £l6O, the property of Martin Donald Stadnyk; that on May 10 at Christchurch he converted a motorcycle valued at £165, the property of Eric Noel Taylor; and that on May 11, at Dunsandel, he converted a motor-truck valued at £l6OO, the property of the Ellesmere Transport Company. Detective-Sergeant G. C. Urquhart, who prosecuted, said that Nihoniho had previr ously been convicted of stealing a motorcycle, Which he had repainted and fitted with new number plates. BREACHES OF PROBATION Peter Hammond Hoss, aged 27, a truck driver, was discharged when, because of breaches of the terms of his probation, he Was brought up again on charges that on September 12 and September 13, at Huntly, he stole seven and a half dozen bottles of beer and three wooden crates, to a total value of £7 5s 6d, the property of the Huntlv Thistle Soccer Club. A Probation Officer, Mr J. Ryley, said thtff Ross had pleaded guilty to the charges in the Huntly Magistrates Court on October 14 and had been admitted to probation for two years, on condition that he make restitution and take out a prohibition order. Since then he had been convicted of being intoxicated in charge of a motor vehicle, of theft, and of breaches of the prohibition order, and he was being brought up under the original charges to have him removed from probation as an undesirable. Ross said that he had made restitution to the Huntly Thistle Soccer Club. “If you come up again on any other serious charge, I’ll deal sharply with ybu, said the Magistrate.

CONVICTION FOR DRUNKENNESS Richard Norman French, aged 50, a labourer, was ordered to be detained for not more than 12 months in the inebriates institution on Roto Roa Island when he appeared on a charge of being found drunk in Kingsley street on May 11, having been convicted of drunkenness four times within the previous six months. French pleaded guilty and asked to be sent to '‘the Island.” Senior-Sergeant C. A. G. Mcßae said that French was an absolute pest as tar as his wife was concerned. He was living apart from her, but when he had taken liquor he went back and made himself a nuisance. PROHIBITED IMMIGRANT Larry Lee Nu Chee, known as Larry Lam, was ordered to be detained in custody and placed on the first available ship to Samoa when he appeared on a charge of remaining in New Zealand after the expiration of a temporary immigration permit. He pleaded not guilty. Mr P. Mahon, who appeared for the Crown, said that the defendant had entered New Zealand in 1945 under the sponsorship of the Department of Island Territories. His temporary permit had been renewed from year to year, until the department had “formed the opinion that it might be better if the defendant was returned to Samoa.” INTERFERENCE WITH CAR A 50-year-old man whose name was ordered to be suppressed in the meantime pleaded guilty to charges that on May 11 at Christchurch he unlawfully interfered with a motor-car, was found drunk in Lichfield street, and was found in possession of documents intended to be used for an illegal lottery. He was remanded until tomorrow for a Probation Officer’s report, bail being allowed in the sum of £2O, with one surety of £2O. Mr D. W. Russell, who appeared for the defendant, said that'the defendant had been to a wedding on May 11 and .had "indulged excessively." He had never been before any Court before, and had just made a complete fool of himself. REMANDED Mervyn Ronald Looms, aged 32 a taxidriver, was remanded to May 19 on a charge of being Intoxicated in charge of a motor-cycle at Christchurch on May 4. Bail was renewed. James Patrick McEwan, aged 21, a farmhand, was remanded to appear in the Wellington Magistrate’s Court today on a charge of having received, from Tony TeWhenui, a binocular valued at £l5 10s, the property of Thomas Edward Williams, knowing it to have been dishonestly obtained.

TRAFFIC OFFENCES Offenders against the traffic regulations were penalised as follows on prosecutions brought by the Transport Department: Exceeding the speed limit: Elaine' Lilian Haworth, £2 (no driver’s licence, 10s); Frederick Murch, £2; Leopold De 800, £2; Chris Van Wiren. £2. Defective silencer: Patrick John Glassenbury, 10s (no warrant of fitness, 10s). No warrant of fitness: Stafford Pearce Carey, 15s; James Ngahina Pohio, 10s; James Saunders, 10s (no tail light, 10s; failing" to carry certificate, 10s). Riding unlighted cycle at night: Donald George Adams, 20s; John Martin Renner, 20s.

No consignment note: Edwin George Grant, 30s. Wrt?ng class of driver’s licence: Ronald William McKay, 10s. Breach of goods licence: Prendeville Carrying Company, £2; Scargill Transport Company, £3. No driver’s licence: Trevor James Tavendale, 10s. > Failure to carry vehicle authority: Stevensons Motors, 10s. Wrong vehicle authority: Transport (North Canterbury), Ltd., 20s (exceeding

heavy traffic licence, 20s). Charges brought by the traffic department of the City Council were dealt with as follows:

Driving at speed which might have been dangerous: Kevin Barry Christopher Cunningham, £B, and licence suspended for six weeks (no warrant of fitness, 10s).

Parking offences: John Henry Ward, 10s; Cornelius Stafford Chidgey, 10s; Vivian James O’Donnell, 10s; Andrew Alexander Andrews, 10s; Gwendoline May Hastie, 10s; Trevor Roland Hill, 10s; David Harrison Booth, 10s; Barry Edward Prisk, 20s; Barry Menzies Readman, 15s; John Leonard Rogers, 10s; Alan Clarence Sloss, 10s; Vincent Michael Consedine, 10s; James Preston Davies, 15s; Eric Clifford Hughey, 15s; David Hetherington Silcock, 10s; Selby Walker, 10s. Exceeding the speed limit: Robert George Fitzharding Kingscote, £2; Russell John Webster, £4: Daniel Joseph Callaghan, £2; James Alonzo Thomas Lean, £2; Walter Erie Radford, costs only. No warrant of fitness: Robert Dott Pullar, 10s; Raymond Trevor Cullen 10s; Alan Henry Dawson. 10s; Frederick Bradshaw Robinson, 10s; Michael Shepheard, 10s (operating vehicle so loaded as to be liable to cause injury to any person, 10s: not displaying L plates, costs only); Desmond James Kimm, 10s. Using motor vehicle without due care and attention: Donald Victor Maffey, £4. Overloading: J. Deyell and Company, Ltd., costs only. Not displaying L plates: Eric Murray Hills. 20s; Patrick O’Donnell, 10s. Failing to give way: Ronald Cedric James Kirk, 10s. Riding unlighted cycle at night: Walter George Ray, 20s. CIVIL CASE (Before Mr Raymond Ferner, SJ4.)

CLAIM FOR ASSAULT Arthur Charles Johns, aged 48, a waterside worker (Mr P. H. T. Alpers) was awarded £1 general damages and £l4 special damages from Arthur Charles Neville, a labourer (Mr J. G. Leggat) and William Edward Richards, a labourer (Mr W. G. P. Cuningham). Johns alleged that Richards and Neville had entered Ills bach early in the morning of April 7 and assaulted him because he had been associating with Neville’s wife. As a result of. the assault he had been in hospital for four days, and was off work for two weeks.

Johns claimed £lOO general damages and £27 special damages. The Magistrate said he was satisfied that Johns had been assaulted by Neville, and that it was a planned expedition.