Magistrate’s Court Woman Fined For Speeding Near County Boundary

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29107, 20 January 1960, Page 8

Magistrate’s Court Woman Fined For Speeding Near County Boundary

Quite a lot of publicity had attached to this case, as the traffic department’s use of the microwave detector near the Heathcote county boundary had been criticised by the defendant’s husband, a Heathcote county councillor, at a recent meeting, said Chief Patrol Officer J. Brown in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday when Eleanor Le Compte was fined £2 for exceeding 30 miles an hour in Opawa road on November 27.

Mr Raymond Ferner, S.M., was on the Bench.

The defendant did not appear. Chief Patrol Officer Brown said Cr. C. D. Le Compte had cited a North Island Magistrate’s criticism of a traffic officer who had operated a microwave detector to detect cars coming from a 50 mile an hour into a 30 mile an hour restricted area. In the present case, however, he said, the woman was travelling from a 30-mile an hour gazetted area of Heathcote into the city area. He produced a 1937 Gazette in which the area of Heathcote was classed as “closely populated’’ for the purposes of speed restrictions. PARKING INCIDENT IN SQUARE

William James Jones, who was described as one of the youths who frequented the portion of Cathedral square near the Chief Post Office on several nights of the week, was convicted and discharged on a charge of failing to comply with a traffic officer’s directions on November 7. Evidence was given that the defendant had been parked in the 10 minute area outside the post office for nearly half an hour, stopping other cars from getting a parking place. The defendant and two other young persons were sitting in the car during this time. The traffic officer told the defendant to move off and not return, but while he was telling other youths to move their cars the defendant drove into another vacant parking space nearby. The defendant, who pleaded guilty, was discharged without the imposition of a fine after claiming that he had travelled twice around the Square looking for a friend after being approached by the traffic officer, and had then moved into the other parking space. He submitted that he was entitled to stay there for another 10 minutes.

On a charge of having insufficient lights he was ordered to pay costs, and for failing to carry a driving licence he was fined £l. He pleaded guilty to these charges. DROVE OFF AFTER ACCIDENT After running into a parked car in Worcester street at 11.45 p.m. on the evening of October 10 Kelvin Bruce Painter, a carpenter, had reversed and then driven away, turning into a number of streets in the vicinity, apparently to get away from anyone who might have seen him, said Chief Patrol Officer Brown. The accused was fined £lO on each of two charges arising from the incident—driving without due care and attention, and failing to stop after an accident—and had his driving licence suspended for three months. He pleaded guilty to both charges. When questioned, the accused said a lighted cigarette had dropped into his lap as he was turning into Worcester street and he had lost control and run into the other vehicle. He knew he should have stopped but lost his senses and continued on.. FIRST PROSECUTION

The first prosecutions for traffic offences committed by drivers at the recently installed traffic lights over the pedestrian crossing in Papanui road, near Mansfield avenue, were brought yesterday. Joseph Patrick Gilmore was fined £2 for driving without due care over the crossing on October 29. Evidence was given that he drove over the crossing when the lights showed red and a pedestrian was five or six feet out from the kerb. The defendant told the traffic officer that he had not travelled on Papanui road for some months and did not know that lights were there. George Hunt was fined £2 for failing to obey the traffic lights at the crossing. Chief Patrol Officer Brown said the pedestrian crossing was in a very busy shopping area and motorists should travel at a speed at which they could stop for pedestrians. Even without the lights operating pedestrians would still be entitled to the right of way as on any crossing, he said. OTHER TRAFFIC CASES

On other traffic charges brought by the Christchurch City Council offenders were dealt with as follows:

Exceeding 30 miles an hour: David Eric Lord, £7 10s; Cyn-

thia Ward, £1 10s; Brian Dudley Churches, £5 and licence suspended for six weeks; John Cameron Arthur, £2; Bevan Henry Baynon, £3; Sydney James Becker, £3; Warwick Raymond Emerson, £2; Mary Moore Evans, £2; Sidney James Evans, £5; Albert Fehsenfeld, £3; Cyril Joseph Goode, £2; Douglas Vernon Graham, £2 Frederick Oscar Greenaway, £2; Charles Hall, £2; Robert John Hawker, £3; James David Hollows, £2; Paul Joseph Hughes, £2 (no safety helmet, £2); Grahame Kenneth Hyde, £5; Eleanor Le Compte, £2; Norman Edwin Lloyd, £2; Brian Robert Minson, £5, and licence suspended for six weeks; Maurice Hill Mullany, £3; Leonard James Percasky, £2; Carl Axe Ralfe, £2; Shirley Kathleen Raper, £3; William John Salt, £2; Douglas Tweedie Skeene, £2; Charles McLean Souter, £3; Brent Edward Stanley, £2; Robert John Stockdill, £2; James Mossman Strachan, £2; Peter George Hoey Swan, £5; Trevor Michael Tregoning, £2; Malcolm Roy Wild, £2; Lester Grant Wildey, £2 (operating noisy motor vehicle, £3); Neville John Walker, £2. Exceeding 30 miles an hour in heavy motor vehicle: Warren Neville Gibson, £3. Failing to supply information: Brian Douglas Kirkness, £5; Leonard Gerrard McGrath, £5; Murray John Peckman, £5. Parking offences: Laurie James Ofsofke, £1; lan Aldridge, £3; Robert John Baillie, £1; Russell George Cairns, £1; George Robert Forbes, £1; Alfred Joseph Gray, £3; Murray Frederick Hartman, £5. Failing to give way: Ena Maude Brightling, £5; James William Mallock, £7. No warrant of fitness: Waltei James Thomas Cook, £3 (not displaying licence label, £1); John Allan Crooks, £1; John Davey Hewson, £2; (insufficient lights, £3); Henry Charles Beadon Isaacs, £1 (insufficient lights, £2); Thomas Milton Turnbull, £2 (insufficient lights, £2). No driving licence: Ivan Keith Harris, £3 (no warrant of fitness, £3).

Failing to stop at compulsory sign: Percy William Jarden, £3. Failing to obey traffic lights: Christopher John Gidall, £5; Gary Andrew Lang, £2. Stopped on offside of another vehicle: Donald Roderick Gillies, £2, No certificate of fitness: Albert Pounder Andrews, £1 10s. REMANDED Bryan Reginald Price, aged 2G, a truck driver, was remanded to January 21 on a charge of stealing an electric motor and other goods, of a total value of £l7, the property of William Frederick Dalton, between April 1 and November 2, 1959. He was granted bail at £5O with one surety of £5O and was ordered to report daily to the police. He was represented by Mr A. D. Holland. (Before Messrs F. C. J. Dann and R. H. Harris, Justices of the Peace) TRIAL BY JURY George Maurice, aged 37, a labourer, was committed for trial at the next sitting of the Supreme Court in Christchurch on a charge of stealing a power saw, valued at £BO, the property of Frederick Trevor Mounce, on July 17. Maurice elected trial by jury and conducted his own case. He was granted bail at £lOO with one surety of £lOO and ordered to report daily to the police. CIVIL CASES (Before Mr N. M. Izard, S.M.). Judgment Summonses The following orders were made on judgment summonses: Donald McDonald to pay Commissioner of Inland Revenue £1 19s 6d, in default three days’ imprisonment; M. E. Anning to pay Suttons Clotheslines Ltd. £1 10s, in default three days’ imprisonment; W. Jones, seaman, to pay Frisks Motor Spares Ltd. £26 10s, in default 29 days’ imprisonment; M. Chappell to pay Gold Band Services Ltd. £2 16s 6d, in default four days’ imprisonment; H. Sinclair, shearer, to pay New Zealand Workers’ Union £4 2s 6d, in default five days’ imprisonment; Peter Boon to pay Geoffrey Francis Gillman £2 12s 6d, in default 56 days’ imprisonment, warrant suspended while £2 a week is paid; R. E. Miles to pay U-Drive Rentals Ltd. £7 15s, in default nine days’ imprisonment; A. G. Southern to pay Lamond Timber Co. Ltd. £5 6s sd, in default seven days’ imprisonment; B. E. Tomes to pay Ken Logan £29 16s Id, in default 31 days’ imprisonment; John Patrick Magee to pay Dominion Motors Ltd. £l4 Is 6d, in default 16 days’ imprisonment; William James Salter to pay Commissioner of Inland Revenue £3l 14s Bd, in default 34 days' im-

prisonment, warrant suspended while £2 a week is paid; Phillip George Maurice to pay P. G. Ashmore £3O 4s sd, in default 33 days’ imprisonment; T. Koziarski to pay Hays Ltd. £9 17s 6d, in default 11 days’ imprisonment, warrant suspended while 10s a week is paid; S. G. Taylor to pay Downs Cash Store Ltd. £2B 5s in default 31 days’ imprisonment, warrant suspended while £1 a week is paid; Peter E. Hall to pay Hurst and Drake Ltd. £6 3s, in default eight days’ imprisonment; A. Tait to pay Calverts Ltd. £1 5s sd, in default two days’ imprisonment; A. R. King, labourer, to pay North Canterbury Freezing Company Ltd. £27 19s 9d, in default 30 days’ imprisonment; F. Stempa, engineer, to pay Arthur Yates and Co. Ltd. £4 Is,in default five days’ imprisonment; G. Gardner to pay J. B. Ferguson £3 12s, in default four days’ imprisonment; S. J. Parker to pay F. Drury and Son Ltd. £4 Ils lid, in default five days’ imprisonment; C. Kuzmick to pay Johnson and Smith Ltd £l5 Ils 6d, in default 17 days' imprisonment, warrant suspended while £1 a week is paid; W. R. Conner, labourer, to pay Butler

Cycle and Motor Company Ltd. £4 19s 6d, in default six days’ imprisonment; V. Connor, a married woman, to pay Butler Cycle and Motor Company Ltd. £ll 4s 6d, in default 13 days’ imprisonment, warrant suspended while 10s a week is paid; C. H. Halligan to pay N. H. Ginn £lB 9s Bd, in default 20 days’ imprisonment, warrant suspended while £1 a week is paid; R. J. Adamson to pay A. Christie (5.1.) Ltd. ‘£33 12s 6d, in default 36 days’ imprisonment, warrant suspended while £2 a week is paid; I. Delaney to pay A. A. Parkin Drapery £ll 19s, in default 14 days’ imprisonment, warrant suspended while 10s a week is paid; Normap Croft to pay Winstone, Blackbuone, Smith Ltd. £26 16s 3d, in default 29 days’ imprisonment; Donald McDonald to pay Commissioner of Inland Revenue £37 6s 3d, in default 40 days’ imprisonment, warrant suspended while £2 a week is paid; W. E. C. Jones to pay J. F. Brockhurst £49 15s lid, in default 52 days’ imprisonment, warrant suspended while £2 a week is paid; R. Williamson to pay Christchurch Painters’ Supplies Ltd. £6 Ils lOd, in default eight days’ imprisonment, warrant suspended while £1 a week is paid; J. Heath to pay Cyclone Fence and Gate Co. Ltd. £l5, in default 17 days’ imprisonment; W. H. Strange to pay Roy Johnstone £4 Is lid, in default five days’ imprisonment; R. Jamieson to pay Arthur Barnett Ltd. £3 is 2d, in default four days’ imprisonment; Keith McCallum to pay Frank Holloway and Company Ltd. £2l 8s 6d, in default 24 days’ imprisonment, warrant suspended while £1 a week is paid; Albert Jackson, labourer, to pay L. R. Allen and Company Ltd. £l7 16s 6d, in default 19 days’ imprisonment: B. Reeves to pay Schaefs Ltd. £lB 16s Id, in default 20 days’ imprisonment; Norman William Bradley to pay the Attorney General £53 17s lid. in default 56 days’ imprisonment, warrant suspended while £2 a

week is paid; G. Smith, worker, to pay Robert Francis Ltd. £7 Gs, in default nine days’ imprisonment; T. J. Everest to pay Charles Begg and Company Ltd. £l9 16s, in default 21 days’ imprisonment; Muriel Kala to pay G. J. Roud and Son Ltd. £4, in default five days’ imprisonment; R. D. Postlewaite to pay Maling and Company Ltd. £8 9s 6d, in default 10 days’ imprisonment; L. K. Sutton to pay Ballins Breweries (N.Z.) Ltd. £7B 3s 6d, in default 81 days’ imprisonment; H. Menkman to pay Bishop and Company Ltd. £l4 16s. in default 16 days’ imprisonment, warrant suspended while 10s a week is paid; H. Mankman to pay Eric Lewin Bayliss £29 3s sd, in default 32 days’ imprisonment, warrant suspended while 15s a week is paid; M. I. Greenbank to pay R. A. Young Hunter and Company £lO Bs, in default 12 days’ imprisonment, warrant suspended while £1 a week is paid; J. G. Watson to pay Gold Band Services Ltd. £4 17s 6d, in default six days’ imprisonment; P. M. E. Weir to pay R. A. Young Hunter and Company £l3 10s in default 15 days’ imprisonment, warrant suspended while £1 a week is paid; W. Davey, labourer, to pay E. J. Mcßae £5 18s 6d, in default seven days’ imprisonment; George Smith, council employee, to pay Stan Wheatley Ltd. £2O 2s 3d, in default 23 days’ imprisonment; F. A. Stempa to pay Ashby Berg and Company Ltd. £433 5s 2d, in default three months’ imprisonment, warrant suspended while £8 a month is paid; Desmond Spencer, barman, to pay Raymond Arthur Carver £6 5s 6d, in default eight days’ imprisonment.