MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27993, 13 June 1956, Page 9

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

TUESDAY (Before Mr Rex C. Abernethy, S.M.) REMANDED Gordon Stewart McClintock, aged 19, a labourer, was charged with assault on Josiah William McClintock on June 11. On the application of Sub-Inspector C. H. Reardon, accused was remanded to June 19 for a medical report. Warren Ernest James, aged 34, a painter, and Paul Stuart Guthrie, aged 19. a tobacco-worker, were jointly charged with the conversion of a motor-car valued at £ 1500, the property of Allan Kenneth Greenslade .at Nelson on June 11. They were remanded to June 19. Bail was allowed each in the sum of £lOO and one surety of £lOO. TRAFFIC BREACHES Clifford Crowe was fined £lO and his driving licence was suspended for three months on a charge of failing to stop after an accident at Kaikoura on December 29. Evidence given by an officer of the Transport Department showed thai after an accident on Oaro Hill, where defendant had been towing a caravan, he had collided with a motor-car and the caravan had been damaged extensively. A traffic officer had caught up with Crowe at Goose Bay and found that a hole had been made in the caravan. The roadway where the accident happened was one of 30 feet of bitumen Defendant said tha| he had been travelling down hill on his correct side of the road and felt a slight bump but saw that the other car wAs still on the road. The walls of his caravan were of soft material and easily damaged. The Magistrate said too many vehicles were becoming involved in accidents after which a driver had failed to stop. It was hard to understand why Crowe did not stop to ascertain the damage done to his own vehicle.

In other charges, brought by the Transport Department, the following penalties were imposed:— Exceeding speed limit: Ronald William Churchill £2. Colin Brian Holden £3. Gerald Ross Lascelles £3, John Kingsford Willocks £2. Colin Henry Wilson £3, Norman Clifford Rossiter £4.

Driving without due care and attention: Andrew Hugh McDougall £6 (no warrant of fitness £1), Alexander William Reid £3, Gordon Charles Harding £2. No driver’s licence: Robin Brittin Williamson £l.

“These offences are becoming more numerous,” said Chief Traffic Officer J. Brown, representing the Christchurch City Council Traffic Department, when outlining a charge against John David Dunn of carrying a pillion passenger when restricted to L plates, Other charges were being brought before the Court that day. said Mr Brown, and although fines had beer increased the offences wore not getting fewer On this charge Dunn was fined £3 and for carrying L plates, the lettering on which was not easily distinguishable, he was fined £4. Other charges brought by the Christchurch City Council Traffic Department were dealt with as follows:

Parking over time limit: Robert Victor Aitken. Daphne Mildred Button. Leonard Parker Jones, Bob Koustall. Lila Belle Lawrence. Maurice Raymond Muir. Owen Thomas Rogers, Roy Smith, John McPherson Stuart. Ernes! Robert Sutton, and Reginald Jamc:Tucker each £1; John Frederick Williams. ordered to pay costs.

Driving without reasonable consideration for other road users: John Harold Baird. £6. Parking in time expired metered space: Peter Loftus Berry. Noel John Eaton, Gold Band Services. Ltd.. Edward Maurice Hoban, Ivan Rex Laurence, James Petrie. Robert Gordon Robinson. Hector Robert Scott, Lee Harold Silcock, William James Strang, Yvonne Maud Sylvester, Neil Bostwick Trott, Melville Keith Thomas, each £1; Herbert Henry Eastmond, £2: Joyce Ada Dailey, ordered to pay costs.

Exceeding speed limit: Ivan James Carlyle, £6; Errol Karl Chaplin Henry, £3 (carrying pillion passenger when i restricted to L plates, £3): Kenneth - Barry Phillips, £2. I No warrant of fitness: Lewis Ronald i Clarke. £l. Parking in prohibited area: Shirley 1 Rosina Clarke, £2: Susie Mary Glau- ’ sius, £1; Elyizabeth Jane Meyell, £1; Edward Zielinski, £l. Double parking: Ronald William 1 Codling, £1: William August Graeve, ’ £2: Peter Watson Talbott, £l. Failing to comply with directions of ' traffic officer: Desmond Allan Gurney. ; £3; Melville Keith Thomas. £5 (in- ’ correct parking. £2). Obstructing vehicular entrance: Law- , rence Court Hibbard, £2; Herbert 1 Shivington Reilly, £2. No driver’s licence: John Russell Leggatt. £l. Not displaying L plates: Mark Daniel Richards. £2 (carrying pillion passenger, £3). Failing to stop at compulsory sign: George Cameron Roberts. £3. Unlighted cycle: Terry Sexton, £l. CIVIL CASES (Before Mr Raymond Ferner, S.M.) JUDGMENT FOR PLAINTIFF None of the allegations and counterallegations. save one—the failbre to give way to the right—had been proved, said the Magistrate, granting W. A. Habgood, Ltd. (Mr P. T. Mahon), judgment on a claim for £39 Ils 6d from Gavin Taylor (Mr R. B. Shand). A counter-claim by Taylor for £lO9 10s lid was dismissed. The claim arose out of an accident at the intersection of Hoon Hay road and Sparkes road about 6.30 p.m. on May 29. 1954. said Mr Mahon. Taylor admitted in evidence that he saw the plaintiff’s truck, driven by Douglas John Griffiths, “about two chains away,’’ as he approached the intersection. “It is not surprising, since the litigation edmes to hearing more than two years after the accident, that the memory of some of the witnesses‘is not as clear as it might have been.” commented the Magistrate. ‘‘The evidence is not always completely reliable, although the witnesses feel that they are telling the truth.” There was no conflict of evidence on the final positions of the vehicles, said the Magistrate, and none but one of the allegations had been proved. HEARING ADJOURNED

After hearing evidence and legal argument on a claim for £49 8s 9d arising out of a motor accident on Riccarton road in June last year, the

Magistrate adjourned the hearing so that counsel for both parties could inspect the area. M. M. Nevin (Mr A. D. Holland), claimed £49 8s 9d damages from T. Jarvis (Mr G. S. Brockett), alleging negligence, in that the defendant was following too close behind the plaintiff’s car when it pulled up sharply at the intersection of Riccarton road and Clyde road. Leon Augustin Nevin, son of the plaintiff and driver of the car, admitted giving no hand signal, on the ground that there was insufficient time. The Magistrate said that the accident was caused by a number of circumstances, including the wet road surface, and the locking of the twowheel brakes on the defendant’s 1928 model car—throwing his car into a skid. The hearing was adjourned.