MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Press, Volume XC, Issue 27307, 25 March 1954, Page 13

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

WEDNESDAY (Before Mr Raymond Ferner, S.M.) OBSTRUCTED RAILWAY Gordon Alexander Watson Wilson was fined £2 on a charge of parking a car in such a position that it might have obstructed the working of a railway at Lyttelton on November 27, 1953. Evidence was given that left his car parked parallel to the railway track on a curve at the back of the Vacuum Oil Company’s installation. Both Wilson and the driver of a shunting engine pushing the rake of trucks which struck his car, had agreed that it had appeared until the last moment that there would be sufficient clearance between the car and the trucks. The area where the car was parked was commonly used as a roadway. FINE FOR ASSAULT Gordon Herbert Cameron Raines, aged 21 (Mr W. F. Brown), was fined £2 on a charge of assaulting Ronald Gordon Dickson on October 11 at Christchurch. On a further charge of wilfully damaging a telephone cabinet, the property of the Postmaster-General, to the value of £2, he was convicted and ordered to pay Court costs and £2 damages. He pleaded guilty to both charges. Senior-Sergeant C. A. G. Mcßae said that the charges arose from an episode on Lincoln road in which the defendant and three friends attended a dance and after leaving about midnight decided to call a taxi. While the telephone call was made the defendant apparently put his fist through two panes of glass and then kicked in a panel of wood. Dickson saw this incident occur, said the senior-sergeant. He crossed the road and went up to Raines. A scuffle took place. Ijt appeared that a certain amount of liquor had been consumed, said Mr Brown. Raines had maintained to his solicitors that he did not break the windows. He had, however, on advice, decided to plead guilty. REMANDFID A girl aged 19, whose name was ordered not to be published, was remanded to March 30 on a charge of obtaining the sum of £22 8s by false pretences. Bail was allowed in the sum of £5O and one surety of £5O. and she was ordered to report daily to the police. INFORMATION DISMISSED Clifford Arthur Goodwin, a farmer, aged 50 (Mr B. McClelland), was charged with assaulting his wife, Phyllis Goodwin, at Halswell on March 16. The information was dismissed. Goodwin pleaded not guilty.