YOUTH FINED £21 10s FOR TRAFFIC OFFENCES

Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27875, 25 January 1956, Page 6

YOUTH FINED £21 10s FOR TRAFFIC OFFENCES

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

A self-confessed “milk-bar cowboy” was fined a total of £2l 10s, and ordered to pay £l2 costs by Mr Raymond Ferner, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday for offences ranging from exceeding 30 miles an hour while carrying a pillion passenger, to having insufficient lights on his machine. Garry Robert Chadderton, aged 18, who did not appear, was fined £2 for riding a motor-cycle with an inappropriate identification mark, £2 for having no driver’s licence and 20s for having no warrant of fitness, on December 23. For exceeding 30 miles an hour while carrying a pillion passenger Chadderton was fined £4, for failing to produce a driver’s licence £2, failing to produce a warrant of fitness 20s, for riding a motor-cycle with a mutilated number plate £2, and for showing insufficient lights 10s—all these offences were committed on January 3. Chadderton, for riding a motor-cycle on January 4 without a driver’s licence, was fined £2, for failing to produce a warrant of fitness 20s, for having an inappropriate identification mark £2, and for having a mutilated number plate £2. Court costs were £1 on each charge. When challenged with his offences after being stopped on December 23, said Traffic Officer A. N. Warren, Chadderton replied: “I couldn’t care less about the whole thing—us milkbar cowboys have got to stick together.” On December 23, said Chief Patrol Officer J. Brown, Chadderton’s machine bore a number plate which had been dormant 18 months and had been picked up from a dump. On the two later dates Chadderton’s machine was fitted with a mutilated number plate, said Chief Patrol Officer Brown. An L had been cut off, the plate beaten out again, and the white line repainted around the margin. “It was quite a good job, and one hard to detect,” he said. When stopped on one occasion, said Chief Patrol Officer Brown, Chadderton replied that he would continue to drive his machine, “licence or no licence.”

In November last year, he said, Chadderton had been convicted and fined for exceeding 30 miles an hour, for having no driver’s licence, and no warrant of fitness. "OTHER TRAFFIC OFFENCES Other prosecutions brought by the traffic department of the Christchurch City Council and the penalties imposed were:— Exceeding the speed limit: lan William Barter, £3; John Baxter, £2 (no warrant of fitness, £1; not displaying front number plate, £1); Bruce Anthony Boland, £2 (no driver’s licence, £2; no warrant of fitness, £1)Bernard Henry Compton. £5; John Andrew Stenhouse. £4; Ernest Robert button, £2 (carrying pillion passengerwhile restricted to “L” plates, £3to P roduc e warrant of fitness’, £l; A^. l P? n Arthur Wells, £3; Desmond William Wild, £5 Arthur James Farquhar, Alexander MacKenzie Ferguson £5; Jan Jacobus Hoets, £3; Colin Malcolm McNicholl, £3- Desmond Stuart Paterson, £5; Paul Ernest Pjther, £3; William R. Russell, £3. Jamel *l; Michaei Pacing: Colin Walter CampThi m £l i. T H . erber ‘ Karl Fisher, £1; Noeline Powell, £1 Leonard Frederick Woodsford, £1 (no warrant of fitness, £1). c£istfe g £l dip lightS: George Richard

F™l^ e A. tOO K Cl '? s ? t 0 co ™er: William Ernest Chamberlain, £1; Lionel Dean, r Ad A Laurlna „ Ennes, £1; William % , rv S y ’- £ L (parked within * -°.?.,?. nother parked vehicle, £1), John William Knight, £1; Stuart S°Y an McGregor, £1; Winifred Dora Walker, £1 (parked within three feet of another parked vehicle, £1). . „ ar -£. . too close to pedestrian crosslng-, Violet Francis Balkind, £l. Overtaking vehicles stopped at pedestrian crossing: John Thomas Matson, jun., £5.

Parked oyer the time limit: Bernard + Gan ? eh ’ £1 ( P ar ked within three feet of another vehicle £1)P^ ti ?, so . n - £1; Charles Daniei bmith, £1; Brian John Harrington, £l. No warrant of fitness: Mervyn Cedric Coppins, £1; Owen Duffield, £1- Colin James Kinley, £1; Hugh Malcolm Macdonald, £l. No certificate of fitness for heavy vehicle: Etudes et Enterprises, £1 Obstructing vehicular entrance: Colin Frederick Evans, £1; Ronald Charles Warren, £2.

Driving up adjacent to fully occupied taxi stand.—John Shaw Finlay, Failing to produce driver’s licence. —John Vingoe Glasson, £1; Johnny Dixon, £2. J

Failing to produce warrant of fitness.—Brian Davison, £1; Neil Hampton Petersen, £l. ,

Using unlicensed vehicle.—William Nicholas Maffey, £3 (no warrant of fitness, £1); William Selwyn O’Neill, £5 (parked in prohibited area, £2); Patrick James Quinn, £3 (no warrant of fitness, £1). Carrying pillion passenger while restricted to L plates.—Nevelle Richard Hampton, £3 (riding motor-cycle on footpath,. £1).

Parked in time expired metered space.—William Albert Henry, £1;

Winifred Jane Lynne, £1; • John Arthur Miller, £l. Cycling with hands off handlebars. —lan William McGregor, £l. No driver’s licence.—Eric James Hill, £2 (no warrant of fitness, £1); lan William McGregor, £2. Not drawn into kerb.—Keith Thomas Whitla, £l. Driving without due care and attention.—William Williams, £4. Failing to give way.—Olliver Glen Laing, £2. Displaying mutilated number plate. —Patrick George Shannon, £2 (not displaying appropriate identifying mark, £1; carrying pillion passenger while restricted to L plates, £3); Lawrence, Steel £l. Not displaying current licence label. —lvan Gerard Seymour, 10s (not displaying front number plate, 10s). CIVIL CASES (Before Mr Rex C. Abernethy, S.M.) JUDGMENT FOR PLAINTIFF Arnold France, Ltd. (Mr A. F. Shaw), was given judgment for £6O 7s 6d against G. W. McConachie, a traveller, of Timaru. The amount was for patterns, dies and castings for toy tractor parts, said Arnold France, managing director, for the plaintiff firm.