MAGISTRATE’S COURT Licence Suspended For Negligently Driving Car

Press, Volume XCIV, Issue 28104, 20 October 1956, Page 2

MAGISTRATE’S COURT Licence Suspended For Negligently Driving Car

Arthur Ernest Woodham, for. whom Mr W. K. L. Dousall appeared, pleaded guilty in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday to charges that on July 27 he negligently drove a motor-vehicle in Oxford and that he failed to report an accident in which a man was iniured. Mr Rex C. Abernethy. S.M.. fined Woodham £6 on the first charge and suspended his driver's licence fop three months, and fined him £5 on the second charge. Sub-Inspector C. H. Reardop said that Woodham was driving north along Oxford terrace at 6.30 p.m. at about 20 miles an hour. He slowed down at the Gloucester street intersection but knocked down a man on the pedestrian crossing. He heard someone call nut and he stopped and went back. He told the police he was surprised to find he had knocked a man down for he had seen no-one and had felt no bump. Sub-Inspector Reardon said that the man told Woodham his shoulder was injured, but Woodham did not report the accident Mr Dougall said that Woodham walked with the man to Cathedral square, the latter arguing all the way and asking Woodham what he was going to do about it. The man showed ho sign of injury. FAILED TO STOP Jerzy Pftnfllow. a storeman. pleaded guilty to charges that on September 25 he used a motor-vehicle without due care and attention and that he failed to stop after an accident. He was fined £4 on the first charge and fined £5 on the second, and his driver’s licence was suspended for three months. Sub-Insnector C. H. Reardon said that Panfllow was driving south along Oxford terrace at 7 p.m. and at the intersection with Worcester street he saw a car coming on his right, but thought he had time to turn into Worcester street before the other car came on. As he turned he collided with a car on his left. The two cars got tangled up in front but. after two or three attempts. Panfllow backed off and drove away. He told the police he did not' stop because he could see that no-one was injured OTHER TRAFFIC CASES In other traffic prosecutions brought by the police the penalties imposed were:— Failing to give way to a pedestrian: Neil Henry Sepping Harrison. £3. No warrant of fitness: Gerhardten Hove convicted and dischaiged: Trevor Philip Pearce. £l. Failing to give way: Alexander Douglas. £3: George Edward Warboys. £3: Walter Sydney White., £4; Peter McConnigle. costs only; James Strath-

ern. £4: James Waddington Sutton. £4; John Joseph Sutton £2; Wilfred Robin Norman Tisch. £4. Using a motor-vehicle without due care: Basil John Dossett. £4 (no warrant of fitness. £1); Stanley Johnson. £2: Peter Melton Johnston. £3 (no warrant of fitness. £D: Frederick Stanley Judd. £4: Leonard Bertram Wendelborn. £3 (no warrant of fitness. £1). No driver’s licence: Ronald Alan Silvester. £3 Failing to stop at compulsory stop sign: Peter Swaney, convicted and discharged. RFMANDED Peter Laurence Harkess. aged 28. a labourer, was remanded to October 25 on a charge of unlawfully converting to his own use a motor-car valued at £175. the property of Harold Evans. Graham Earl Tweedale. aged 22. a painter, was remanded to October 25 on a charge of breaking and entering a house in Palmerston North on September 21 and committing theft. A woman, whose name was ordered not to bo published, was remanded in custody to October 26 on charges of assault and wilful damage, pending her examination by a psychiatrist. SHIP DESERTION John Thomas Males, who appeared further on a charge of deserting from the overseas shin Akaroa at Auckland on October 3, 1951. was released on probation for two years under the terms of the Shipping and Seamen's Act 1952 Mr J. R. Woodward, for the shipping company, said that Males was convicted of the charge a month ago at Timaru. He understood that Males had applied for permission to stay in New Zealand. There was no objection to his being allowed probation. CHARGES ADJOURNED When Arthur Gordon, aged 18. a freezing worker. Bernard Arthur Gordon, aged 21. a freezing worker, and Alfred Thomas Vincent, aged 18. a farmhand, 'appeared for sentence on a charge of stealing petrol, a tin, and a funnel. Mr W. G. P. Cuningham applied for a rehearing for Arthur Gordon, and asked that both Gordons be remanded to October 25 The Magistrate adjourned each case until October 21. (Before Mr Raymond Ferner, S.M.) Failing to give way: Hugh Douglas Annett. £2 Charge dismissed: A charge against Norman Link of using a motorvehicle without due care was dismissed under Section 42 of the Criminal Justice Act, 1954. upon payment of costs and £3 14s 6d for damage.