MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27212, 2 December 1953, Page 6

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

TUESDAY (Before Mr Raymond Ferner, S.M.) INDECENT ASSAULT CHARGES Arthur Edward Wilson, aged 53, a pensioner, and Colin Arthur Edward Ringdahl, aged 19, a gardener, were remanded to December 7 on charges that each indecently assaulted the other on November 30. Ringdahl was allowed bail in his own recognisance of £5O and one surety of £5O on condition that he reports daily to the police. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE A man, whose name was ordered not to be published, pleaded guilty to a charge that he attempted to commit suicide on November 17. He was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence within 12 months if called upon. TRAFFIC OFFENCES The following prosecutions for breaches of the traffic regulations were brought by the traffic department of the Christchurch City Council, and penalties were imposed as stated:— Exceeding the speed limit: William Rex Andrews, £2 (no warrant of fitness, £1); Walter Matthew Campion, £4 (exceeding 40 miles an hour with pillion passenger, £3); Frederick Lancelot Hampton, £2: Ross Haden Haynes, £2 (no warrant of fitness, 10s); Barry Thomas Hix, £3 (no warrant of fitness, 10s); Adriaan Valk, costs only; John Leslie Walton, £3. Failing to stop at compulsory stop sign: John George Simpson, £2; Jan Nicolas van Looy, £3 (parking over time limit, £2).

Parked over time limit: Jack William Adams, £1; Oscar Ludwig Anderson, £1; Harold George Loudon Bandy, £1; Carlyle J. Hartley Blackie, 10s; Herbert Attwood Booth, £3; David Arthur Britten, £1; Athol Merton Brown, £2; Charles Hay Browne, costs only; John Delbridge Carl, £1; Eric William Cole, £1; Alexander Collins, £1; Victor Herbert Cresswell, £1; Frederick Russell Cullen, £1; Robert Patterson Duncan, £4 10s; Leonard Derek Enchmarch, £1; Charles Robert Fairbairn, £1; Peter Findlay, £3; Henry John Greenfield, £2; Robert Hampton, 10s; William Gray Henderson, £1; Humphrey Reward, 30s (no warrant of fitness, 10s); Naylor George Hillary, £3 on one charge and £4 on a second; Wanda Isabel Johnston, 10s: Murray Benjamin 1 Walters Jones, £1; Elizabeth Helen Laing, £2; Ray Lay, £1; Alfred Victor Le Roi, costs only; Vincent Luisetti, £1; Gordon Maitland Martin, £1; Otto Martell Miller, £1; Russell lan Moller, £1; Edward Albert Muller, £1; Thomas McCaffrey, 10s; Daniel Andrew McCormick, £2; Margaret Mary McDermot, 10s: Hector James Mclntosh, £1; James Douglas McKelvie, 10s; Donald Joseph McKnight, £2 (no warrant of fitness, 10s); Hartley Patterson, £1; Terence John Porter, 10s (no driver’s licence, £2): Thomas Sussex Quintrell, 10s; Donald Dixon Reeves, costs only; Edwin Peter Rice, £1; George Scott, £1; Ronald David Shaw, 10s (failing to produce warrant of fitness, 10s); John Roy Smith, £5; Terence Sydney Steeper, £1; Frederick William Stevens, £6: Bernard Ronald Swann, £1; James Orrick Thompson, £1; Royal Edward Lingard Thomson, £2; Selby Walker, £2; Agnes Wauchop, £1; George Luther Wellbrock, 30s; Harvey Frederick, Richard Williams, £3. Failing to give way to the right: Lew Brown, £3; Stanley Charles Halvorsen, £2.

Incorrect parking: Allan Owen Barton, £1; Benjamin Bennett Boyd, costs only; John Craw, £1; Christian de Rink, £1: Hugh Robert Hamilton, 10s (no driver’s licence, £1); Kenneth Walter. Hickmott, £3 10s; Lily Amy Johnstone, £1: Paul Kevin Madden, £1; Stanley Hayden Moore, 10s (no warrant of fitness, 10s); Russell William Muirhead, 10s: Hector Douglas Orchiston, 10s; - John Desmond Plumbridge, 10s; Roydon Wilton Prebble, 10s: Geoffrey Simmonds, 10s: Earl Nicholas Stick, £1; Thor Stewart Wilson, £l. Riding unlighted cycle at night: Brian William Clelland, £l. Cycling with hands off handlebars: Ivan Copeland. 10s. Proceeding against automatic lights: Frederick David Shaw Dalzell, £l. No warrant of fitness: Mervyn Louis Jerard, 10s. No rear light on heavy vehicle: Thomas Greenhall Lewis, costs only. No certificate of fitness for truck: Keith Thomas Marriott. £2 (operating vehicle in bad mechanical condition. £2). LICENCES SUSPENDED Vincent Francis Mora was fined £5 for driving at a speed which might have been dangerous, and his driver’s licence was suspended for three months. Chief Patrol Officer P. Lunn said that Mora rode his motor-cycle along Tuam street at 43 miles an hour. He had a girl on the pillion, and his explanation for his speed was that he was trying to get the girl home before 11 p.m. He had previous convictions for traffic offences. Welwyn Peter Scowen, who was fined £2 for 'exceeding the speed limit, had his driver’s'licence suspended for one month. He had previous convictions for traffic offences. FINES TOTAL £lO Arahura Te Waipaumu Robinson was fined a total of £lO, with costs £6, on six traffic offences. He was fined £4 for exceeding the speed limit on Ferry road on July 22, £2 for using an unlicensed vehicle, £1 for failing to produce a driver’s licence, and £1 for failing to produce a warrant of fitness. He was fined £1 for having no driver’s licence on August 5 and £1 for having no warrant of fitness on the same date. CIVIL CASES (Before Mr Rex C. Abernethy, S.M.) CLAIM FOR DAMAGES lan Richard William Dawson, a sawmill employee (Mr D. H. Godfrey), claimed £56 12s 4d damages from A. C. Palmer, a truck driver (Mr B. L. Stanley), as the result of a collision between two motor vehicles on. the DunsandelHororata road on March 1. The /defendant counter-claimed for £6O 18s 6d. Judgment was given for the plaintiff for the amount he claimed, and he was also given judgment on the counterclaim. (Before Mr F. F. Reid, S.M.) JUDGMENT FOR PLAINTIFF Amos (Leslie G.), Ltd. (Mr V. G. Spiller), was given judgment against J. A. Fowlds for £2O 14s, the balance due on a radio bought on terms. DECISION RESERVED Decision was reserved on a claim by K. G. McCaw, Ltd., in liquidation, agaiift't the Attorney-General for £3BO, said to he due under a contract with the Ministry of Works. Mr E. S. Bowie appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr P. T. Mahon for the Attor-ney-General.