LICENCES SUSPENDED FOR TRAFFIC BREACHES

Press, Volume XC, Issue 27443, 1 September 1954, Page 8

LICENCES SUSPENDED FOR TRAFFIC BREACHES

Ross Darragh Levy was fined £5 and his driver’s licence was suspended for three months, when he was convicted in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday on a charge that he drove a vehicle in a manner which might have been dangerous to the public. Levy, who was represented by Mr W. K. L. Dougall, pleaded guilty to the charge. Mr Raymond Ferner, SJI., was on the Bench. Chief Patrol Officer P. Lunn said that during the evening of June 6 two patrol officers in Linwood avenue saw a car travelling fast along the avenue. The officers checked defendant over the Worcester street intersection at a speed they estimated at 40 miles an hour. They gave chase, and at one stage reached 55 miles an hour without catching up with defendant. The chase was carried on around Avonside drive to the Swanns road bridge, into Eveleyn Couzins avenue and Flesher avenue, where defendant stopped. During the chase defendant switched oft his lights on two occasions. The officers had used the siren in an attempt to stop defendant during the one mile and a half chase. His speed over this distance alternated between 40 and 50 miles an hour. “This speed on such roads, coupled with the fact that he drove with his lights switched off on two occasions, on each of which he travelled for about two chains, was very dangerous,” said Mr Lunn. Mr Dougall said defendant admitted driving at 40 miles an hour along Linwood avenue. He said that he had seen the lights of a car behind him and had attempted to shake it off. His reason for wishing to do this was that on one other occasion while riding a bicycle along the avenue, a car. had driven up behind him, and he was accosted by a man. He ha’d put his lights off in the hope that the following car would lose him. Allen Rhodes, who pleaded guilty , to a similar charge, was fined £5 and his driver’s licence was suspended for 28 days. •

Traffic Officer R. A. Gallagher, of the Transport Department, said that on June 12 he saw a heavy vehicle travel past St. Bede’s College, a restricted area, at between 40 and 50 miles an hour. He gave chase, and he checked the vehicle at 40 miles an hour while it was travelling towards the Papanui shopping area. It was dark at the time and he considered that, havipg regard to his speed, defendant was driving in a dangerous manner.

A fine of £5 was imposed on Richard James Trott, who was convicted on a similar charge. His licence was suspended for three months, and the Magistrate ordered that the conviction be endorsed on his licence. Traffic Officer A. Goldsmith, of the Transport Department, said that about 5.15 p.m. on June 29 he noticed a car travelling north along the Main South road at a fast pace. He gave chase, and found the defendant’s speed was 40 miles an hour. On reaching Hansons lane defendant swung out on to his Incorrect side ot the road for some unknown reason, and later he overtook traffic on two occasions, forcing oncoming traffic into the kerb. TRAFFIC OFFENCES In cases brought by the Transport Department, offenders against the traffic regulations were dealt with as follows: Exceeding speed limit: William Thomas Hill Chinn. £3: Jack Ferguson Gibbs, £3; Derick George Harris, £3; Alister Leo Hogg, £3; Rex Vincent Richards, £2; George William Ward, £2. No tail light: Theo Hitching, 20s (no blue light on vehicle drawing trailer, 10s). Using unlicensed vehicle: Colin James Keith. £2; Kenneth John Robinson, 20s (no driver’s licence 20s). Failing to keep to left: Berkeley Leonard Roper, £5. No headlight on bicycle: Barry Stewart, 20s (no tail light, costs only). Carried pillion passenger when restricted to L plates: Peter Aldridge Williams, £2; Kevin George Pope, £2: Kevin Leslie Hopping, £2. No warrant of fitness: William George Whitley, 10s; Leonard John Cattermole, 10s. Driving without due care and attention: Darcy Armistice Uren, £3; Keiran Patrick O’Bryne, £3. Failing to wait after stopping at stop sign: Earl Reynold Victor Tate, £2. No driver’s licence: Leslie Walter Wehner, 20s. Cases brought by the traffic depart-

ment of the Christchurch City Council were dealt with as follows:

Parking offences: Edward James Abbell, 20s; Manus Agnew, costs only; Stuart Douglas Ainsworth, 20s; Rex Albert Anderson, £5; Albert Leo Armstrong, 10s; Selwyn James Atkinson, 20s; Kenneth' Hardwick Bartlett, 20s; Frank Cecil Bastin, 10s; Stewart Bentley, 20s; Herbert Martin Blazey,* convicted and discharged; Hendrik Bosma, 20s; Cynthia Mary Brightmore, 20s; Peter Michael Buckland, 20s; Keith J. Campbell, 20s; Brian Albert Cantwell, 20s; Murray Joseph Chappell, £2; Rata Tui Ching, costs only; Robert Henry Clarke, 20s; Harold Gordon Cobum, 20s; Roland Albert Collins, 20s; Robert Neil Columbus, 20s; John LeonardConnolly, 20s; Louis George Cook. £2; Carena Harry Cooper, 20s; Lewis Robert Cooper, 20s; Barbara Ann Cracroft-Wilson, 20s; David William Cronin, 20s; Robert Crouch, 20s; Brian Cross, 20s; Thelma Cicily Culloty, 20s; Colin Cameron Cunningham, 20s; William George Cunningham 30s; Francis Curtis, costs only; Florence David John Dunne, 10s; Robert Ennis Dunne, / a ”?® s 2' v ? er> 20s; William Andrew Elliott. 20s; Wilfred James Ford, 20s; Leo Cyril Fox, £3; Ferdinand Gordon K. Gilchrist, 20s; Keith Fredric William Gilli-gan-Kingsley, 10s; Reginald Goodwin; costs only; William Francis Granger, £2,* Frank Gladstone Hall, 20s; Ivan George Herring, 20s; Brainwood Raymond Higging, 20s; Lancelot Ural Higgs, 20s; Lionel Walter Hunter, 30s; Samuel I. Inder, 20s; Arthur Graham Jamieson, £4; Trevor Wesley King, £3; David Langley, £4 10s; lan Heath Stuart Latter, 30s; John William Soper, 20s (not displaying licence label, 10s); Norah Georgina’ Martin, 20s; Doris Trelease Maxwell, 20s; June Fielder Morgan, 20s; Alfred James Mullins, 20s; Thomas Munn, 20s; Ethel Arlington McCoy, 20s; William John McDowell, 10s; William Day McGee, costs only; John Osborne, 20s; Pat Owers, 20s; Edward Alec Pearcy, 10s; Clarence Pengally, 20s; John Alexander Perera, 20s; Allan Cameron Rattray, 10s; Martin Brian Savill, 20s; Maurice Lyon M. Shewan, 20s; Leslie Watson Spence, 30s; James Wyse Stewart, 20s; Marjorie Sullivan, 10s; Vernon Thompson, 20s; John Tilley, 20s; Robert Erskine Tolhurst, 20s; John Brian Mulholland Warren, 20s; Frank Watts, 20s; Thomas Francis Whittle, 20s; Albert Edward .Winyams, £6; Lance Marshall Woodfield, 10s.

Cycling at night without light: Harold Desmond Bamford. 20s (no rear red light, costs only); Walter Andrew Brown (no rear red light), 10s; Douglas Brownlee, 20s (no rear red light, costs only; no efficient rear brake, 10s); Kevin Barrie Carroll, 20s (no rear red light, 10s); Peter Easdale Cook, (no rear red light), 10s; Edward Corliss, 20s (no rear red light, 10s); Kevin Crannitch, 20s (no rear red light, costs only; cycling on footpath, Gerald Peter Eggleton (no rear red light), | 10s (no efficient rear brakes, 10s); Jeffrey Faith, 20s (no rear red light, costs only); Rdymorid Ernest Maxwell Fine, 20s (no rear red light, costs only; failing to stop when called upon, £2); John Galland (no rear red light), costs only; Christopher Harbridge (no rear red light), 10s; Albert Charles Hoskin (no rear red light), 10s; Allan Kelt (no rear red light), IQs (no efficient rear brake, 10s); Raymond Eli Macfarlane (no rear red light), 10s; John Arthur Molloy, 20s (no rear red light, costs only; cycling on footpath, 10s); Trevor John McGillivray (no rear red light), 10s; Adrianus Johannes Nyman (no rear red light), 10s; Morris Powell O’Callaghan (no rear red light). 10s; David Hugh Ormandy, 20s (no rear red light, costs only); John Joseph Townsend (no rear red light), 10s. Exceeding speed limit: Trevor Gordon B rears, £2; Mervyn Willihm Broomhall, £3; Walter Lawrence Carroll, £2; John De La Cour, £4. Insufficient lights: Raymond Carran, 10s (not displaying registered number plate, 10s). Failing to give way to school patrol: Albert James Cross, costs only. Failing to stop at compulsory stop sign: Norman William Robinson, £2; Ann Grant Young, £2. INFORMATION AMENDED After hearing evidence on a charge against John Leonard Branthwaite, of driving along Moorhouse avenue at a speed which might have been dangerous, an application to have this charge amended to one of speeding was granted. On this charge Branthwaite, represented by Mr B. J. Drake, pleaded guilty, and was convicted and fined £3. * CHARGE DISMISSED

A charge against John Charles Witherington, of speeding on Riccarton avenue in a Transport Board bus, was dismissed. Mr R. E. Wylie appeared for defendant. CIVIL CASES (Before Mr L. N. Ritchie. S.M.) CLAIM FOR DAMAGES SUCCEEDS Judgment for the plaintiff, Clifford Douglas Wright, a mechanic (Mr R. Twyneham), was entered against Noble David Morton, a taxi proprietor (Mr E. S. Bowie), in a claim for damages arising out of an accident. Wright, in his statement of claim, alleged that on or about September 12 last year he was driving along Oxford terrace when his car was involved in a collision with a car driven by defendant at the intersection of Oxford terrace, Cashel street, and Durham street. He claimed that the accident was due t<r the negligence of the defendant’s servant and sought £37 15s damages for repairs to his car and £5 for depreciation on his vehicle. The defendant, in his counter-claim, denied that the accident was caused by his servant and alleged negligence on the part of the plaintiff. He counter-claimed for £35 3s 6d as repairs to his taxi and £45 10s for the loss of his car while it was undergoing repairs. Judgment for the plaintiff, with costs, was entered in the sum of £37 15s.