Magistrate’s Court ONE MONTH’S GAOL FOR DISQUALIFIED DRIVER

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29270, 30 July 1960, Page 11

Magistrate’s Court ONE MONTH’S GAOL FOR DISQUALIFIED DRIVER

For driving while disqualified on July 8, Josef Repas, aged 23, a glassworker, was sentenced to one month's imprisonment, and j ® P er iod of disqualification from driving was extended for 12 months, when he appeared for sentence before Mr E. J. S. Crutchley, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday. On a further charge of driving at a speed which might have been dangerous, Repas was fined £l5. and disqualified from obtaining another licence for two years. The Magistrate told Repas that he was liable to a term of six months’ imprisonment for driving while disqualified, but in view of his age he would only impose a term of one month's imprisonment. Repas had only been in the country three years, but he would have to learn to obey the country’s laws, and to obey an order by the Court when it was given, said the Magistrate. Should be again drive while disqualified, he could expect to lose his licence “for a yery long time.’’ "ALWAYS RODE WITHOUT LIGHTS” When stopped by Constable A. Laverack in St. Albans on the night of June 19 after being seen cycling without lights, Sheila Joyce Stewart Kane, aged 22, said she had never had a light, always rode at night without lights, ‘‘couldn’t care less,” and “didn’t intend to get any.” "She could have bought a complete lighting set for this,” said the Magistrate, imposing fines of £2 for having no front light, and 10s for no rear light. DROVE THROUGH POOL OF WATER Swerving to the left in Frost’s road, Burwood, at 9.30 a.m. on June 9, John Kearney, aged 17, a workman, drove through a large pool of water giving a woman waiting at a bus stop a “good wetting” from the sheet of water splashed up by the car, said Sergeant S. Byers. He said the woman considered the youth’s action had been deliberate. Kearney was fined £5 for driving without consideration for other road users, and £5 for having no driving licence. In a letter to the Court the defendant apologised for the inconsiderate way in which he had driven. It was the first time he had driven a car, he said. STRUCK BY GOODS TRAIN Failing to see a SpringfieldChristchurch goods train at 11.10 a m. on May 21 Eileen Francis Sinclair, aged 42, drove on, to the Formans road level crossing, Islington. and her car was on the line when the train struck it, throwing it 15 feet, said Sergeant Byers. Sinclair, who told the police she had looked to see if any trains were approaching before crossing, was fined £5 for crossing the line when it was not clear, and £5 for having no driving licence. CHARGE DISMISSED A charge of driving without due care and attention on May 39 against Emmaline Adelaide Martha Kennard, who pleaded not guilty, and was defended by Mr W. F. Brown, was dismissed. OTHER TRAFFIC CHARGES On other traffic charges, convictions were entered and fines imposed as follows: Driving without due care and attention: Allan Francis Archer, £5; Gavin Edward Munro, £5; Robert John Noster, £5; Cecil Albert Chapman, £5; Wilfred John Dallow, £5; Richard Edward Joseph Hardman, £5; Gregory Edward Johnston, £3 (no warrant of fitness, 10s); William Ivan Meaclem, £5; Clifford Clement Payne, £5; Herbert Roy Richards, £5; Ronald David Shaw, £5; John Edward Rathdone Scott, £5. Failing to give way: Robert Ernest Scott, £5; Phillip John Adams, £5; Gladstone William Ward, £5; Isabella Stewart Brittan, £5; Mark Stafford Ballantyne, £5; James Douglas Wellesley Munro, £5: David Dunbar, £5; Leonard William Ford, £5: Frederick Kendall Gibson, £5;

Victor Mathew Hunter, £5; Norman Joseph Liddicoat, £5; David Robert Peter Millward, £3. Failed to report an accident: Rodney James Gibson, £5 (failing to give way, £5; no warrant of fitness, £1). No warrant of fitness: James Desmond Duggan, £3; Kenyon John Hollows, 10s; Harold Leslie Keig, £1; George Jacob Lee, £l. TRIAL BY JURY Graham John Winder, aged 31, charged with negligent driving at Christchurch on July 5, thereby causing the death of Geoffrey Wilfred Neave, elected trial by jury. The charge was adjourned to August 10. REMANDED Charged with indecent assault on a male at Christchurch a man whose name was suppressed in the interim was remanded to August 4: On the application of Mr G. S. Bockett, bail was allowed at £lOO, with a similar surety, the accused to report daily to the police. A 27-year-old man, who was granted interim suppression of his name, was remanded on bail to August 4 on a charge of indecent assault on a girl aged 11 years on July 11. (Before Mr E- A. Lee, S|M.) “AN UNHAPPY ENDING” Driving down Papanui road at 2.30 a:m. on Sunday, June 26, after attending a gathering to listen to the first Rugby test, George Mervyn Timms, aged 26, a driver, ran headlong into a car parked 16ft out from the kerb. After careering along the road for 150 ft, Tiinms’s car “ended up in the gutter” with a girl passenger in the front seat “almost through the windscreen,” according to evidence given when Timms was charged with driving without due care and attention. The car parked 16ft out from the kerb was "an unexpected hazard,” suggested Mr J. H. F. Macfarlane, in Timms’s defence, A tendency for the lights on Timms's car to “pin-point,” coupled with the fact that the parked car was of dark colour, had unfortunately combined to make an unhappy ending to what otherwise was apparently a very happy evening. “It couldn’t have been a very happy evening if it was the first test,” remarked the Magistrate. “I’m satisfied Timms ought to have seen this car—that is what he has lights for—and he must be convicted.” A fine of £5 was imposed. KNOCKED OVER BOY - CYCLIST A schoolboy riding a borrowed bicycle, with upswept handlebars, and with the right-hand brake sticking out 4in, would not have proper control of his machine, claimed Stanley Knight, a factory manager, conducting his own defence against a charge of driving without due care and attention on June 11. Knight was charged after colliding with John Johnston, a 15-year-old schoolboy, in Estuary road, and knocking him from his bicycle. In convicting Knight and fining him £3, the Magistrate said the accident was a very minor one, which had brought “unfortunate results.” It was clear that Knight had not known he had touched the cyclist until he had passed him, and saw another person stop to help the boy. Knight had obviously passed too close to the cyclist, said the Magistrate.