MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Press, Volume XC, Issue 27473, 6 October 1954, Page 6

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

TUESDAY (Before Mr Raymond Ferner, S.M.) TRAFFIC OFFENCES The following persons were prosecuted by the traffic department of the Christchurch City Council for breaches of the traffic regulations and penalties were imposed as stated:— Parking over the time limit: Donald William Bain, £3; Allan Owen Barton, £2; Ernest Ellis Bendell, 30s; John Delbridge Carl, £3; Kenneth Fortnom Sandford Cox, £2; Ronald James Davidson, £3; Patrick Arthur Fear, £2; Leo Cyril Fox, £3; John Gunn, £1; Richard John Hobbs, £3; Sedley Wells, Ltd., £3; Mehrten Botham Green Stace, £1 on one charge and 30s on another; Robin Malcolm Troup, £2. Exceeding the speed limit: Geradius Maria Blokker, £3; Malcolm Field Burrell, £3; Alan Vernon Frewer, £2 (failing to stop at compulsory sign, £2); Reginald Percy Griffiths, £3; William Gray Henderson, £2 (no driver’s licence, 10s); Thomas George Kenneth Martin, £2; Noel Arthur Sckenkel, £3; George Anderson Sutherland, £3; Richard Thorold Watkinson, £2. Parked in prohibited area: Doris May Blaxall, £2 10s; Stewart Caston Cain, £1; Vernon Herbert Clemens, £5; Kevin Alexandra Gropski, £1; Maitland Tyndal Harman, 30s; Percy John McKay, £2; Olive Myrtle Sharman, £2; George Basil Wilson, £2. No warrant of fitness: Sydney Raymond August, 10s; Leo Francis Campion, 10s (no warrant of fitness for trailer, 10s; no rear light on trailer, 10s; no blue light on car, 10s): Alfred Edward Gosling, 10s; Walter John Keenan, £l.

Using a motor-vehicle without due care: George Victor Cross, £2. Riding unlighted cycle at night: Hank Eshuis, £1 on one charge and 30s on another (no rear red light, costs only on one charge and 10s on another); Joseph Harding, £1; Donald Lamont Havern, £1 (no rear red light, costs only); Harry Frank Marquett, £1 (no rear red light, costs only); Guy Matthews, £1 (no rear red light, costs only); James Keith Restieaux, £1 (no rear red light, costs only). Cycling on footpath: Mervyn Pick-

Double parking: William Alfred Edward Harvey, 10s; Norman Alfred Hewitt, 10s; Wilfred Wooff, £l. Using unlicensed trailer: Grenfell Cook Bremner, £l. No rear red light on cycle: Thomas Patrick Cloudesley, 10s. Parked within 20 feet of pedestrian crossing: William Archard Cooper, 10s. Failing to stop at compulsory stop ; sign: Oliver de Haris, £2; Samuel Dickey, £2; Holland Flint, costs only; Charles Raymond Judge, £2; Frand Edward McNulty, £5; John Edwin Scott, £2. No driver’s licence: Peter Scollard, £1; Jack Holt, £l. Obstructing vehicular entrance: Gladys Ethel Isaac, £l. Using unlicensed vehicle: Lionel Godfrey (McConchie,£2 (no driver’s licence, £1; no certificate of fitness for heavy vehicle, £1; not displaying unladen weight on truck, 10s; no heavy traffic licence, £4 3s 4d). The following prosecutions were brought by the Transport Department: Exceeding the speed limit: James Findlay, £3; Edward Michael Ponsonby, £2: Joel Nicholas Reed, £3; Reginald John Rowe, £3; Margaret Bromley Sinclair, £2. Nnsufficient lights on vehicle: Gordon William Stanley, £3 (no warrant of fitness, 10s). No warrant of fitness: James Ernest Boyd, 10s; John David Kane. 10s (no driver’s ’ licence, £1; using unlicensed vehicle, £1); Sidney Rossiter, 10s. Permitting use of unlicensed vehicle: Maurice Holmes, £l. Failing to stop at compulsory stop sign: James Lyon, £2. Exceeding heavy traffic licence: Reece Brothers, Ltd., £1 (no certificate of fitness for heavy vehicle, £1). CIVIL CASES (Before Mr L. N. Ritchie, S.M.) PARTNERSHIP ACCOUNT R. R. Shannon, a contractor (Mr G. G. Parry), proceeded against W. C Foster, for whom Mr M. G’. L. Loughnan appeared, for an order to wind up their partnership and for the taking of accounts. An order was made for the dissolution of the partnership and judgment was given for Shannon for £8 5s with DAMAGES AWARDED Frederick Arthur Woodham, aged 73 (Mr E. S. Bowie), claimed £2B 7s 9d from the Paramount Building Company, Ltd. (Mr J. G. Leggat), as damages resulting from a fall into an excavation for a drain in Woodham road on June 3. The Magistrate gave judgment for Woodham for £l5 general damages and £3 7s 9d special damages with costs. The plaintiff said that he and his wife cycled along Woodham road on their way to a card evening at the Linwood Tennis Club’s pavilion. He got off his bicycle opposite the pavilion and walked across the road where he fell into the excavation with his bicycle on top of him. He claimed that the excavation was neither lighted nor protected. The Magistrate said he accepted the statement that the plaintiff did look out. All that the defence could show was that l&tween 5 p.m. and 5.30 p.m. the lights were there, but there was no direct evidence on whether the lights vfere there at the time of the accident The plaintiff did fall into the trench and the defendant company had failed to discharge the duty it owed to the public.