MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Press, Volume XCII, Issue 27718, 23 July 1955, Page 4

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

FRIDAY (Before Mr L. N. Ritchie, S.M.) REMANDED Maurice McKenzie Robertson, aged 21, a stereotyper, was remanded to next Thursday on a charge of being under the influence of liquor when in charge of a motor-cycle in Worcester street on July 21. Bail was allowed in the sum of £25 and one surety of £25. Cecil Verdun Cook, aged 36, a labourer,. was charged with being under the influence of liquor when in charge of a motor-car on Lincoln road on July 21.

Cook was remanded to Thursday, bail being allowed in the sum of £25 and one surety of £25. Arnold Spencer John Wilson, a gardener (Mr B. McClelland), charged with indecently assaulting a male on April 19, was remanded to Thursday. Bail was allowed in the sum of £ 100 and one surety of £lOO, or two sureties of £5O. TRAFFIC BREACHES Offenders against the traffic regulations were fined as follows: Failing to give way: Colin Gimblett, £2; Ronald Edgar Keats, £2; Bruce Ernest Taylor, £2; Peter Herman Schurink, £2. No warrant of fitness: Ernest Charles Becconsell, £1; Brian John Hodder. £l. Driving across railway at risk of collision: Doris Marguerite Irene Butcher. £2. Driving Without due care: Ronald. Gilbert Diggs, £2; Norman Ciuni Jackson, £3. Failing to report accident: Hugh Briton Smith, £5 (no warrant of fitness, 10s). Failing to stop at stop sign: Ivan George Hay, £3; Malcolm Bernon Watts, £3; Maurice Cavan Rountree, £2.

Dangerous driving: Neil Thomas Anderson, £3 and licence suspended for 28 days. CHARGES DISMISSED A charge against Clarence William Winder of failing to give way was dismissed, as were charges against Norval Harry Ginn and Hugh Briton Smith of driving without due care.

(Before Mr F. F. Reid, S.M.) CHARGE DISMISSED A charge of negligent driving of a motor-cycle causing death, against John Francis Chambers (Mr E. M. Hay), who pleaded not guilty, was dismissed. SubInspector F. J. Brady represented the police. It was alleged that negligent driving hy Chambers caused the death of a cyclist. Francis William Winters, on the Sumner road on May 28. Evidence was.given by Mervyn Stenhouse, who said he had seen a motorcycle and cycle lying on the Sumner Causeway about 11 p.m. on May 26 with two bodies nearby. The visibility was not good. Mr Hay said there was no evidence to show how the accident occurred, and there was a doubt whether the cycle was properly lighted. “It would be wrong and dangerous to convict Chambers on the evidence submitted,” said the Magistrate. “There is no evidence of neglect in a very unfortunate.accident,” he said.