Magistrate’s Court Youth Fined £5 On Reduced Charge At Rehearing

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28870, 15 April 1959, Page 18

Magistrate’s Court Youth Fined £5 On Reduced Charge At Rehearing

“The defendant has got his rehearing all right, but if rehearings are granted because people are dissatisfied we would have a lot more work to do,” commented Mr E. A. Lee, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday, when a 19-year-old apprentice joiner, Leslie Norman Carson (Mr H. S. Thomas), appeared on a charge of driving in a dangerous manner. Carson had previously been convicted and fined £lO and had his licence suspended for one year by Mr A. P. Blair, S.M. Mr Thomas submitted that Carson was a young man who had no counsel and that a material witness did not appear at the original trial. “It’s very hard to accept that,” She Magistrate said. “He was told, I suppose, that his licence was in jeopardy, yet he did nothing about it. I suppose in plain fact that he was dissatisfied with the penalty. How many chances is he to get?” The Magistrate amended the charge to one of driving without due care, and convicted and fined Carson £5.

“I am quite satisfied the defendant on this occasion did a number of things carelessly. If he is going to ride a motor-cycle he will have to have regard to his own safety as well as that of others,” said the Magistrate. (Before Mr A. P. Blair, S.M.) REMANDED Kevin Marsh, who was charged with the theft of a camera valued at £69, was remanded until April 20. Bail was granted at £lOO, with a surety of £lOO, and he was ordered to report to the police daily. FOUND DRUNK Joseph Michael Mason, who pleaded guilty to a charge of being found drunk in Victoria square on Monday evening, was fined £2. Mason had been convicted on a similar charge within the last six months. CHARGES DISMISSED Charges against William Tom Brian, a motor trader (Mr W. F. Brown) of parking a goods-ser-vice vehicle at night without a red rear light, and against John H. Prisk (Mr K. A. Gough) of driving without due care and attention, were dismissed. Both men pleaded not guilty OTHER TRAFFIC CHARGES On other traffic charges brought by the Traffic Department of the Christchurch City Council, offenders were dealt with as follows: Exceeding 30 miles an hour: Peter McNeil, £3 (no safety helmet, £2); Clive Whitehead, £4; Alastair John Bell, £3; Madge Brawn, £4; lan Bruce Dawson, £5; Geoffrey Elvin, £4; Derek Castleton Evans, £4; Peter Graham Fuller, £3; Frederick Henry Gardiner, £3; Anthony Michael Gebbie, £2; Hilton Conrad Hamilton, £4; Kelvin John Hatcher, £4; Samuel Andrew Henderson, £2; Peter Menelaos Kathestides, £2; William Morton Lightfoot, £3; John Treipland McKittrick, £4; Noel Mansfield Miller, £4; Denis Rex McKegnie, £2 (driving vehicle other than specified on licence, £2; no safety helmet, £2; passenger without helmet, £2>; Alan Keith Perkins, £3; John Garrick Ferguson Pirie, £3 (failed to produce driver’s licence. £2; failed to carry warrant of fitness, £1 10s); Ronald Percy Quartly, £4 (no safety helmet, £2; failed to produce driver’s licence, £1; failed to produce warrant of fitness, £1); Geoffrey William Pollard, £3 (no safety helmet, £2); Terrence Stanley Scott, £5; Donald Alastair Smith, £3; Edward Eric Stevens, £3; Brian Edwin Steventon, £5, and driver’s licence suspended for three months (no safety helmet, £2; passenger without safety helmet, £2); Edward John Stokell, £5 (no safety helmet, £2; passenger without safety helmet, £2); John Harold Wells, £2; Peter John Harker, £5 (overtaking another vehicle on longitudinal lines, £5 and licence suspended for three months).

Parking Offences: Hugh Bromley Bower, £5; Ashley George Faigan, two charges, £3 on each; Thomas William Hodder, £2; Susan Mary Bl worthy. £1; David Samuel Langley, £3; Mervyn Francis Woodham, £3; Albert Edmond Tregerthen, £2; John Leonard Luney, £3.

Supplying false and misleading information: Warren Neville Gibson, £5 (using motor-vehicle without due care and attention, £lO and licence cancelled for six months).

Failed to supply information: Daniel William Charles Everest, £5; Thomas Richard Harrison, costs only. Registration plate not affixed: William Belsher, £2; Brian Douglas Kirkness, £2 (parked in timeexpired meter space, £2). Operated vehicle so loaded as

liable to 1 cause Injury: Lance Frederick Butler, £lO. No forward light on cycle: Ross Patrick, £2 (no rear light, 10s); David Robert Steward, £2 (no rear light, 10s). Parked goods-service vehicle at night without rear red light: Cyril Thomas McGuire, £5. Overtaking another vehicle stopped to yield right of way at pedestrian crossing: Wilhelmus Gerardus Rongen, £3; Ballington Rex Taylor, £3. Failed to carry warrant of fitness: Stuart Lawrence Lacey, £2 (no effective silencer, £5); Bernard Clifford Shutt, £2 (driving vehicle other than specified on licence, £2).

Overtaking and passing another vehicle other than on its right: Hiram George Taylor, £4 (driving vehicle other than specified on licence, £1 10s). (Before Mr N. M. Izard, S.M.) JUDGMENT SUMMONSES The following orders were made on judgment summonses:— E. M. Cassidy to pay N. Reader £3, in default four days' imprisonment, warrant suspended while £1 a week is paid; Gordon Gardiner to pay Papanui Electric, Ltd. £6 ss, in default eight days’ imprisonment, warrant suspended while £1 a mdrith is paid; Dorothy Mantell to pay Civic Cycles, Ltd. £l7 7s 6d, in default 19 days’ imprisonment, warrant suspended while £1 a week is paid; W. Seymour to pay K. R. Riley £69 4s, in default 72 days’ imprisonment; F. A. Griffen to pay W. A. Habgood, Ltd. £250 Bs, in default three months’ Imprisonment, warrant suspended until April 21; H. W. Bell to pay Basin Parsons £l2 ss, in default 14 days’ imprisonment; Ronald Frederick Gurdler to pay Arbuild, Ltd. £22 13s 7d, in default 25 days’ imprisonment; David Roach to pay John Heagarty £9 15s, in default 11 days’ imprisonment; Claude Cunneen to pay Civic Cycles, Ltd. £l2O 10s, in default three months’ imprisonment, warrant suspended while £2 10s a week is paid; J. H. Gameson to pay Middleton Timber Company, Ltd. £2O 9s sd, in default 23 days’ imprisonment, warrant, suspended while £2 a week is paid; S. Wakefield to pay Martin Carson £l5 6s 7d, in default 17 days’ imprisonment, warrant suspended while £2 a week is paid; lan Hislop to pay Commissioner of Inland Revenue £25 12s lOd, in default 28 days' imprisonment, warrant suspended while £2 a week is paid; A. J. Croswell to pay A. A. Glendinning £l4 ss, in default 16 days’ imprisonment; F. J. McClure to pay J. A. Eddington £3 4s 6d, in default four days’ imprisonment; Donald Bruce Mclntosh to pay S. M. Finance Company, Ltd., £9, in default 11 days’ imprisonment; Mrs R. Burnett to pay the Modemware Drapery Company £9 12s 3d, in default 10 days’ imprisonment