Magistrate’s Court YOUTH FINED £33 ON TRAFFIC CHARGES

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28699, 24 September 1958, Page 19

Magistrate’s Court YOUTH FINED £33 ON TRAFFIC CHARGES

“There is nothing more I can do but fine him again,** said Mr Raymond Ferner, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday after hearing the case against a 17-year-old motor-cyclist who faced five charges, and who had what was described as a “shocking list of previous convictions.’’

John Joseph Hill, said Traffic Officer L. H. Wilkinson, had never held a driver’s licence and was disqualified from holding one. Hill still owed a considerable amount in fines from previous convictions, said Chief Patrol Officer J. Brown who prosecuted for the City Council traffic department. Traffic Officer Wilkinson told of chasing Hill through several streets in Bromley at speeds up to 70 miles an hour. He came up with him when the defendant fell from his machine. The motor-cycle was “completely unroadworthy” and he ordered it from the road, said witness. Hill was fined a total of £33— £lO for driving at a speed which might have been dangerous, £lO for having no driver’s licence, £5 for operating a motor vehicle likely to cause injury to any person, £5 for failing to stop when signalled by a traffic officer’s siren and £3 for using an unlicensed motor vehicle. 80 M.P.H. CHASE A 17-year-old motor-cyclist who lay along his petrol tank in an effort to get more speed from his machine reached 80 miles an hour in an effort to shake off a persuing traffic officer in Moorhouse avenue, the Court was told. Traffic Officer H. J. McMorran said he followed Ronald Owen Dovey along Colombo street, where he weaved in and out of peak theatre traffic at 50 miles an hour, and into the avenue. He turned without signalling, cut the corner, and his speed reached 75 to 80 miles an hour and when stopped, by Hagley Park, he admitted speeding and to having seen the officer following him. Moorhouse avenue was one of the worst areas in the city, said Chief Patrol Officer J. Brown, because its width gave motorists an opportunity to speed. In the last eight months there had been 34 accidents involving injury on that street, ani one fatal accident. Dovey was fined £lO, his licence was suspended for six months and it will be endorsed for three years. CORNERING AT SPEED Keith David O’Callahan, whose 1939, nine h.p. car was said to have left 54ft marks as it broadsided while turning right from Papanui road into Bealey avenue, was fined £5 for driving in a manner which might have been dangerous. His licence was suspended for one month. O’Callahan (Mr D. J. Boyle) pleaded not guilty to the charge, but admitted exceeding the speed limit It was surprising to him that the car did not overturn, said Traffic Officer D. C. Baker. He reached 60 m.p.h. without gaining on the defendant’s car on the motor-cycle of traffic officer B. W. Watson, who was following him and who later stopped hint There was some light patchy fog, said O’Callahan. His car slid a little as he took the corner, and he accelerated as he turned. There was no other traffic. The Magistrate held that the way in which O’CalJahan took the corner—which was not at that time, controlled by traffic lights —might have been dangerous. CARELESS DRIVING

Ernest John Speight (Mr H. S. Thomas), was convicted of driving without due care and attention and fined £5, after the charge had been reduced from one of driving in a dangerous manner. While driving south on the Main North road, near Cranford street in the early evening, he braked and swung to the right as a car swerved from the approaching line of traffic as if to turn south into Cranford street said Henry William Benseman. Instead, the car turned back into the line of cars and they collided.

Speight’s breath smelt strongly of liquor, said Traffic Officer M. McLauchlan. Speight deviated from a normal course at the corner, causing apprehension to the other driver and after the impact his car was “not in a place where it ought to have been,” said the Magistrate. “He had had more than a little liquor” and it was strange that he had no apprehension of the accident—on his own evidence. TRAFFIC CASES Charges brought by the Christchurch City Council traffic department were dealt with as follows:

Exceeding 30 m.p.h.: May Margaret Rathie, £2; Colin John Brownie, £2; Richard Dennis Harty, £3; Cohn Arthur Ford, £6. Patrick Russell, £2; Albert Smith Helm, £2; William Joseph Dwyer, £2; Noel Desmond Lee, £2; Diane Margaret Evans, £2; David McKenzie Roche, £3; Patrick Kennedy Shedden, £3; Harry Marshall, £2, (no licence, £2, no warrant, £3); Daniel Smith Ross, £2; Gordon Herbert Roxburgh, £6, licence suspended for six months; Keith Leonard Duffell. £2; Daniel Joseph Kelleher, £3 (failing to give right of way, £5); Melville Desmond Penney, £3; Murray Joseph Atkinson, £4; Patricia Clare Fulton, £3; Barbara Elizabeth Hill, £2. Exceeding 30 m.p.h. in heavy trade vehicle: Donald Davis Spencer, £4, Exceeding 40 m.p.h. carrying a pillion passenger: Bryan Gordon Lowe, £2.

Exceeding 20 m.p.h. in Christchurch airport: William Best, £2. Exceeding 10 m.p.h. in restricted speed zone: Rose Ethel Coleman, £2; George Thomas Hamblyn, £2; Leonard Avery Wrenn, £2. bailed to stop at compulsory sign: John David Hewlett, £2 (no driver’s licence, £2); George Edward Crocker, £2; Albert Charles Hoskin, £2; David Charles Jarvis, £2; George Gorgenyi, £2; Robert James Polaschek, £3; John Frederick Warren, £3. No warrant of fitness: John Neville Carr, £1; Frank Trevail Peek, 10s; Lewis Le Comte, £2 (no driver’s licence, £3); Robert Edwards, £1; Alan Wayne Boyd, £1; Arthur William Cordell, £1; John Frederick Murray, £2; Terrance Leonard Foster, £1; Leo Yen, £1; Cyril Douglas Wilkinson, £1 (trailer) and £1 (car); John Herbert Smithers, costs only, £1 (two charges); Allan James Grafton, £1; George Sutton Blackler, £1 (no licence 10s); Stanley Richard Donnell, £l. Parked over time limit: Keith

Lachlan Livingstone, £3 and £4; Norman Leslie Hider, £3; Gregory Stewart Arthur, £l. Parked in expired meter space:—John Arthur Brown, £4; John Cameron Lewis, £7; John Edmond Patrick, £1; Norman Francis Hogan, £5; Bryan Jarvis Register, £1; Warren Leishman Thompson, £lO. Failed to give way to school patrol:—Maurice Henry Emms, £5; Rutherford Good, £1; Horace Edgar Roskilley, £1; Basil Phyllis Unwin, £3.

Passing on intersection:—Norman Victor Mansfield, £4. Noisy motor-cycle:—Jenneth James Large, £2. Pedestrian failing to use crossing:—Allan Jackson, £l. Parked too near pedestrian crossing:—Stewart Owen Stubbs, £1; Peter Pelz, £l. Carrying pillion passenger when restricted to L plates:—Charles Westwood Earle, £2; Francis Joseph Rush, £2.

Not displaying current licence label:—Robert Stuart, £1; Frederick Easton Robertson, £1; Clarence Bernard Redmond, £l. Using motor vehicle without due consideration:—Thomas Patrick Stanley, £lO.

Failed to give way to right:— Alice Emma Johanna Avery, £5; Gwen Lilias Dulcie Coull, £5 (no warrant, £1); Peter Shepherd, £5. Failing to display current licence label:—Michael Edward Sinclair, 10s. Parked to close to corner:— Peter Anthony Klaver, £1; Herbertus Schuurman, £l. Driving unlicensed vehicle:— Peter Thomas Cornish, £2; Brian Charles Flattery-Donohoe. £2; Joseph Henry Gundry, £2. Failed to give way to pedestrian crossing:—William David Craig, £2; Willis Williams, £2.

Double-narked:—Ann Virginia Grigg, £2 (using unlicensed vehicle, £2); William Leonard Bremmer, £1 (no warrant, £1). Failing to produce licence:— David Waters, £3 (no warrant of fitness, £2).

Parked out from kerb:—Rodgersan Henry Clouston, £l. Using motor vehicle without current heavy licence:—Farrier and Company, £3. Driving against traffic lights:— John Dennis Ward, £2. Obstructing an entrance: Cyril Leslie Richardson, £2; Douglas Bums Cromb, £2. Parked without consideration: Peter Graham Wright, £1 (no driver’s licence, £2); Patrick Warren Jennings. £2. Parked in prohibited area: Gilbert Charles Platt, £2; Perl Potts Morgan, £2 (no licence, £3).

Driving at a speed which might have been dangerous: Preston Borie Perryman, £5. licence suspended for one month. Failing to notify disposal of vehicle: William Desmond Cook, £l.

Driving vehicle other than specified on licence: Keith Henry Meaclem, £2. Parked over fire plug: Robert Grosvenor Taylor, £l. Driving while certificate of fitness suspended: John Charles Le Page, £2. No heavy vehicle certificate of fitness: Mervyn Nathaniel Cooper, £2.

Cycling on footpath: Owen Edward Field, £l.

Parked heavy motor vehicle without red lights: Frederick Ernest Sargent, £2. No red light: Charles Alfred Ownsworth. £2 (not displaying current heavy trade licence, £1). No driver’s licence: Neil Albert Cumming. £lO (no warrant. £2); Hewart William Minson, £3; William James Rea, £2 (using unlicensed vehicle, £2). Vehicle loaded so as to be likely to cause injury: James Robinson, £2. FINED FOR ASSAULT Frederick George Edward White, a waterside worker (Mr R. J. de Goldi), pleaded guilty to assaulting his wife and daughter and was fined £5, placed on probation for a year, and ordered to take out a prohibition order. White hit his daughter with a steel toy motor-car, said Sergeant V. F. Townshend and also struck his wife, Ngaire Elizabeth White. While they were being interviewed by the police he was in the front garden “behaving like a madman.” White was in the habit of assaulting his wife, said Sergeant Townshend and had previous convictions. (Before Mr N. M. Izard, S.M.) LICENCE SUSPENDED Brian Cashford Dobbie, aged 23, an agricultural cadet, of Springbank, was fined £lO when he pleaded guilty to a charge of reckless or negligent driving and his licence was suspended for 28 days. He pleaded not guilty to a charge of failing to stop after an accient and this charge was dismissed. Dobbie conducted his own case and Traffic Officer M. H. Loughlan, of the Christchurch City Council Traffic Department, prosecuted. Evidence was given by two witnesses that an old model car travelling along Oxford terrace had suddenly swung into a space between two parked cars and struck one of them, causing a large gash on the mudguard. The car backed or rolled off and then went on down the road towards the hospital. Traffic Officer B. W. Watson said he stopped Dobbie as he was about to drive off in Tuam street shortly after 6 p.m. He considered him a border-line case of intoxication, ordered him not to drive the car and took the rotor. When Dobbie called at the depot at 10 p.m. to collect the rotor he denied he had been Involved in an accident and refused to make a statement A hub cap found at the scene fitted Dobbie's car, which had one hub cap missing. Dobbie said he was driving along about 5.45 p.m. on June 21 when he suddenly saw a parking place and swerved in and hit a parked car. He parked his car near St. Andrew’s Church and went back to see if anyone was injured. He gave his name and address to the owner of the damaged car. He had not made a statement to the traffic officer as he was badly shaken up and did not clearly recollect what had happened until 24 hours later. CHARGE DISMISSED

William Hudson Douglas Walker (Mr G. S. Brockett) was fined £1 for having no driver’s licence. He pleaded not guilty to a charge of driving in a manner which

might have been dangerous and this was dismissed. Had Walker been charged with failing td give way to the right instead of driving in a manner which might have been dangerous he would probably have been convicted, said the Magistrate. (Before Mr N. M. Izard, S.M.) (TRANSPORT DEPARTMENT PROSECUTIONS)

In prosecutions brought by the Transport Department the following persons were convicted and fined:—

Exceeding 30 miles an hour:— William Thomas Waltho, £3; Brian Joseph A’Court, £4; Ernest James Blake, £3; Neil Raymond Beaumont* £4; Murray Arthur Bramley, £3; Brian Geoffrey Chadwick, £2; John William Cottier, £2; Brian Maurice Cornelius, £3; John Stuart Cross, £2; Martin Dins, £2; Noel Ramsey Duncan. £2; Charles Edward Crbic, £2; Brian Stanley Hart, £3; Hartley Hampton Hannah, £2; John Harris, £3; Gerard Terence Jarvis, £3; William John Lake, £2; Percival James Leonard, £3; Peter Minchin, £2; Peter Ernest McNaughton, £3 (exceeding 40 miles an hour with pillion passenger, £2, no safety helmet, £2); Philip William Norton, £2; Gerald James Power, £4; Gordon William Robertson, £4; Leslie James Rouse, £3; Brian Edward Riach, £3; Joseph Keith Sowry. £3; _ James Steenson, £2; David Athol Smith, £2; Alan Edward Turner, £3; George Mark Truman, £3; Phillidia Mary Walherton, £2; David Wesley, £4; John Henry Walter, £3; Patricia Mary Wood, £4; Murray Aylmer Westenra, £5; William Ralph Ward, £2; Neil Bruce Woodgate, £ No warrant of fitness:— Douglas McLean Brownlee, £2; John Brasier Groom, £2; Ronald Bazel Leen, £2; George Kelvin Little. £2; Powhiri Love, £3; Raymond Neil Muir, £2 (permitting use of unlicensed vehicle, £5): Joseph James Robinson, £2; Noel Christopher Robinson, £2; Roy Norman Ward (two charges) £3. Insufficient lights:—Trevor Thomas Marquet £3 (no warrant of fitness. £1): Douglas Athol Suttcliffe, £2; Charles Lascelles Mark Woodfield, £2. Exceeding 40 miles an hour with pillion passenger:—Brian Roger Setter, £3 (exceeding 30 miles an hour, £3). No driver’s licence: —Colin Hugh Pollett. £2. Failing to stop at stop sign:— Owen Stanley Burgess, £2; Ivy Mary Marks, £5; Ross Stewart Sutherland, £2. Exceeding heavy traffic licence: —F. W. Cochrane and Sons Ltd., £2: North Canterbury Transport Ltd., £4; Mervyn Vivian Horton, £5; Norman Dean Thomas, £2.

Exceeding 50 miles an hour:— Henry Kelvin Copland, £5; Albert Ernest Kincaid, £4. Breach of goods service licence:—Vincent Alfred Gason. £5. Parking too close to pedestrian crossing:—Cyril Stonyer, £2. Carrying pillion passenger with L plates: Robert Henry Sutherland, £4. No licence sticker affixed: Walter Douglas Black, £l. (Before Mr A. P. Blair, S.M.) CIVIL CASES JUDGMENT SUMMONSES The following orders were made on judgment summonses:— M. E. Sampson to pay Martin Carson £9 12s 7d, in default 10 days’ imprisonment, warrant suspended while £2 a week is paid; K. Fizelle to pay Beath and Company, Ltd., £7 15s, in default nine days’ imprisonment, warrant suspended while 10s a week is paid; Norman Cox to pay Commissioner of Inland Revenue £69 19s 7d, in default two months’ imprisonment, warrant suspended while £3 a week is paid: Morna Catherine Ann Cain to pay Commissioner of Inland Revenue £lB 8s 6d. in default 20 days’ imprisonment, warrant suspended while £2 a week is paid; James Davies to pay Commissioner of Inland Revenue £4B 12s 3d, in default six weeks’ imprisonment, warrant suspended while £4 a week is paid; J. Baldwin to pay Maling and Company, Ltd., £5 2s Id, in default six days’ imprisonment; R. F. Dobson to pay O. V. Lewis £6 6s 4d, in default seven days’ imprisonment; L. E. Andrews to pay R. Redpath, Ltd., £3 5s 3d, in default four days’ imprisonment: *R. Cooper to pay R. Powley and Company (Canterbury). Ltd., £l5 8s 9d, in default 16 days’ imorisonment, warrant suspended while £1 a week is paid; H. Isaacs to pay Charles Begg and Company, Ltd., £3O 5s lOd, in default one month’s imprisonment, warrant suspended while 10s a week is paid; P. McAllister to pay Maling and Company, Ltd., £8 Is 3d, in default nine ' days’ imprisonment; R. H. Brockie to pay Westminster

Motors, Ltd., £3 11s 6d, in default four days’ imprisonment; G. F. B. Smith to pay C. E. Taylor £57 7s, in default two months’ imprisonment, warrant suspended while £2 a week is paid; Cyril Arthur Paul Jones to pay Commissioner of Inland Revenue £l6 Ils sd, in default 17 days’ imprisonment, warrant suspended while £1 a week is paid; Terrence John Minchington to pay Commissioner of Inland Revenue £72 17s Bd, in default two months’ imprisonment, warrant suspended while £3 a week is paid: Sergeant D. Adams to pay G. W Benham £24 3s, in default 26 days’ imprisonment, warrant suspended while £2 a week is paid; O. M. Hawkins to pay Car Buyers Finance. Ltd., £9 15s, in default 10 days’ imprisonment, warrant suspended while £1 a week is paid; K. S. Hanifin to pay Harris Motors £l6 Bs, in default 18 days’ imprisonment, warrant suspended while £2 a week is paid.