MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 29010, 26 September 1959, Page 15

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

FRIDAY (Before Mr E. A. Lee, S.M.) FINED £4 William John Daniel Hugh McFaul was fined £4 on a charge of failing to give way. He pleaded not guilty and conducted his own defence. The police case was that McFaul had failed to give way at the intersection of Fitzgerald avenue and Worcester street to a woman cyclist. Leslie John Vaughan, aged 24. pleaded not guilty to driving without due care and attention. He was convicted and fined £4. For having no warrant of fitness he was fined 10s. Mervyn Graham Hiddleston pleaded not guilty to driving without due care and anention. He was fined £4. SHOPLIFTER SENTENCED Appearing for sentence on a charge of taking coffee and apples worth 2s BJd from Woolworth’s, Ltd., in Riccarton, Edith May Florence Gill, a 50-year-old married woman, was fined £7 and ordered to refund the value of the goods. (Before Mr A. P. Blair, S.M.) OBSCENE LANGUAGE

Trevor Ronald Hyland, aged 22, an unemployed workman, was convicted and fined £5 on a charge of using obscene language in Cathedral square on September 24. SIX CHARGES A 24-year-old man who was to appear on four traffic charges was arrested on Thursday night and appeared in the Court on two additional charges—being in charge of a car while under the influence of drink or drugs, and using obscene language. Appearing for Brian David Hill, Mr A. Hearn asked for Hill to be remanded to October 5 on all charges. Bail was allowed in the sum of £5O with one surety of £5O, and he was ordered to report to the police daily. REMANDED Raymond Patrick Donovan, aged 29, was remanded to October 1 on a charge of ship desertion on March 17. Bail was allowed in the Sum of £lOO, with one surety of £lOO, and he was ordered to report to the police daily. Jointly charged with the theft of a radio, valued at £3O, Brian John Adams, aged 17. and Brian John Raven, aged 20, were remanded to Qctober 1. Bail was allowed in the sum of £lOO with one surety £lOO, and they were ordered to report to the police daily. Walter Henry Mulroy, aged 33, was remanded to October 1 on a charge of false pretences to the value of £229 14s 6d. DROVE WHILE DISQUALIFIED A motor-cyclist who collided with a woman cyclist in Springs road about 7.30 p.m. on May 5 was found to be a disqualified driver, Sergeant E. S. Tuck told the Magistrate. Peter Albert Wright, aged 23. a workman (Mr G. R. Lascelles), pleaded guilty to a charge of driving while disqualified, and told the Magistrate that he was going to the- hospital to visit his father-in-law, who was seriously ill when the accident happened. Saying he would take into account Wright’s explanation and would not send him to gaol—the usual penalty—the Magistrate imposed a fine of £25, and extended the period of disqualification by one year. Pleading not guilty to two other charges. Wright was convicted and fined £3 on a charge of driving without due care and attention, and was convicted and discharged on a charge of not carrying a warrant of fitness. OTHER TRAFFIC OFFENCES Other traffic offenders prosecuted by the police were fined as follows: — Driving without due care and attention: Louisa Sara Birdling, £3; James Leonard Boskell, £4; David John Clements, £4; Alexander Meldrum, £5.

Failing to give way: Mavis Hilda Cooper. £4; Sydney Cross Cropp, £4; Winifred Ina Gillett, £4: David James Murray, ordered to pay costs only, William Francis Parker, £4 (no warrant of fitness, 10s); Warren Barry Shivas, £4. Driving at such a speed that he was unable to stop within half the length of the clear roadway: Leicester Frank Norman Ward, £4.

Using unlicensed motor-car: Stanley Duke, £3 (no driver’s licence. £5. failing to carry warrant of fitness, £D; Ross Colin Gardiner, £3 (failing to carry warrant of fitness, £l. No driver's licence, £2, affixing wrong label on car, £3). Using unlighted motor-van: Keith Allan Hopkins, £3 (failing to carry warrant of fitness, 10s). No driver’s licence: John Terence Montgomery, £2: David Vernon Mcßride, £3. Cycling at night without a light: Robert John Noster, £1 (no rear light, 10s).