Magistrate’s Court Driver’s Disqualification Term Extended

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29315, 21 September 1960, Page 21

Magistrate’s Court Driver’s Disqualification Term Extended

“In this time of national hysteria, with supposedly intelligent men making attacks on lenient terms imposed by Court, it would not be amiss for the critics to consider some of the successes achieved by the Courts,” said Mr G. R. Lascelles, counsel for Gavin William Annett, who was appearing in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday before Mr Raymond Ferner, S.M., on a charge of driving while disqualified, in Wainoni road on December 20. Annett was convicted and fined £5 and the period of disqualification of his driver’s licence was extended by one year. Annett pleaded guilty to the charge on March 22, but as he was on probation at the time, the Magistrate adjourned the charge for six months to see how Annett behaved.

“This type of offence is the second one of its kind and the Magistrate was unaware of the second charge when he placed you on probation,” said the Magistrate to Annett. ‘‘However, you have responded to some extent.” FOUR TRAFFIC CHARGES Fines and costs totalling £23 were entered against Gary David Cockburn, aged 18, when he was convicted on four traffic charges. In addition, his driver’s licence was cancelled for one year. Cockburn, who pleaded guilty to all charges, was fined £lO and his driver’s licence cancelled for one year for driving in a manner which might have been dangerous, £2 for not wearing a safety helmet and £2 for carrying a pillion passenger without a safety helmet He was fined £3 for exceeding 30 miles an hour at an earlier date. “Traffic Officer J. Kotoul checked Cockbum, who was on a motor-cycle, at 50 miles an hour along Hagley avenue on July 29,” said Chief Patrol Officer J. Brown. “Cockburn passed a long line of vehicles in the face of oncoming cars and carried on over the St. Asaph and Tuam street intersections at high speed. The traffic officer was unable to stop him until the light-controlled intersection of Montreal street and Oxford terrace.

“Neither Coekburn nor his pillion passenger was wearing safety helmets. “On June 24, Traffic Officer B. Watson checked Cockburn, who was driving a truck, at 38 miles an hour in Moorhouse avenue,” said Chief Patrol Officer Brown.

OTHER TRAFFIC CHARGES On other traffic charges brought by the City Council, offenders were dealt with as follows: Exceeding 30 miles an hour: Henry George Wilcox, £2; George Fearn, £2; Alan Keith Perkins, £4; Brian Thomas Andrews, £2; June Calderwood Borrie, £2; George A. C. Bruce, £2; Francis Silverton Bryant, costs only; Bernard Thomas Clark, £2; Robert William Connolly, £2; lan Alexander Craig, £3; George John Double, £2; Edward Charles Eskett, £2; Donald Ashley Farr, £2; • Stanley Douglas Friedman, £2: Patrick James Neil Galbraith, £2; Thomas Albert Gill, £2: Miriam Elizabeth Greer, £2; David Rowe Halliday, £2; Henry Timothy Harpur, £2; Leslie Frederick Leggett, £2 (no safety helmet, £2); Jeanne Henry Lowther, £5; Charles Alexander McKay, £2; David James McWhinnie, £4; Peter Stanley Marriott, £3; Kenneth Robert Jones, £3; Paul Underwood Kellow, £3; Rex Harold Martin, £4; Mervyn Harvey Miller. £2; William Clarence Miller, £2; Francis Robert Moore, £2; Barry Anthony Robertson, £3; James Cairney Shearer, £3; Cyril Luton Sturge. £2; Bernard Rapee Tuuta, £2: Brian Vincent Walker. £2. Exceeding temporary speed limit: Patrick Kerr, £2; Maurice H. Stove, £2. Parking offences: Ernest James Easter, two charges, £1 on each; Ngaire Beth Freebaim, £1; Thomas Francis McCabe, £2 (failing to display licence label, costs only); Freeman Rhodes, £1; Robert E. Strachan, £l.

Carried pillion passenger while restricted to L plates: Thomas Patrick Newell, £3. Using unlicensed vehicle: .Alexander Barclay, £2; William Anderson, £2; Desmond John Gatehouse, costs only (no driver’s licence, costs only); Alex Gin, £2 (no warrant of fitness, £2); Keith Daniel John McCallum, £3; Clifford Peter Hende. (driving vehicle other than specified on licence, £2; no warrant of fitness. £1).

Overtaking another vehicle stopped at pedestrian crossing: Rodger James Barnett, £3 (no warrant of fitness, £1; no driver’s licence, £2). Operating noisy motor vehicle: Peter William Everest, £2.

No front light on bicycle: Ross Waldow, £2. REMANDED

Walter Eddington Restall, aged 44, was remanded to September 22 on a charge of breaking and entering on August 23. CIVII. CASES (Before Mr E. S. J. Cruitchley, S.M.) JUDGMENT SUMMONSES The following orders were made on judgment summonses:

David Pitman, worker, to pay Drayton-Jones, Ltd. £9B 14s 6d, in default 90 days’ imprisonment, warrant suspended while £1 a week is paid; R. Jemmett, labourer, to pay F. Drury and Son, Ltd. £3 4s 4d, in default three days’ imprisonment, warrant suspended while 5s a week is paid; Elizabeth Lowe, married woman, to pay Butterfields, Ltd. £l6 18s 6d, in default 18 days’ imprisonment, warrant suspended while 10s a week is paid; William Alexander Gregg, bricklayer, to pay Commissioner of Inland Revenue £43 15s 2d, in default 45 days’ imprisonment, warrant suspended while £1 a week is I paid; C. E. Fairbrother, market gardener, to pay Downes and Sheehan £9 8s 4d, in default 10 days’ imprisonment, warrant suspended while £2 a week is paid; Hans Menkman, workman, to pay Richard Elcock, chief postmaster, suing on behalf of the Crown, £l2 9s lid, in default 14 days’ imprisonment, warrant suspended while £1 a week is paid; C. J. Wilson to pay C. R. Waldron £33 7s lOd, in default 35 days’ imprisonment; Beven Alexander, Air Force driver, to pay Lawrence Gladstone Clark £24, in default 26 days’ imprisonment, warrant suspended while £1 a week is paid; C. Ryder, bus driver, to pay B. C. Evans and J. Henderson £5 3s lid, in default six days’ imprisonment; A. Bennett, storeman, to pay Park Davis Trading Company, Ltd. £5 19s 6d, in default seven days’ imprisonment; M. J. Harding, married woman, to pay A. S. McGregor £8 2s 2d, in default nine days’ imprisonment, warrant suspended while 10s a week is paid; D. McKay to pay Safe “R” Brakes, Ltd. £ll Bs, in .default 12 days’ imprisonment, warrant suspended while £1 a week is paid; A. W. Cornwall to pay Alex Stark,* Ltd. £6 2s 2d, in default seven days’ imprisonment, warrant suspended while £1 a week is paid; Margaret Whittacker, waitress, to pay Adcocks Gifts, Ltd. £8 Is 3d, in default nine days’ imprisonment, warrant suspended while £1 a week is paid; A- H. Weeber, labourer, to pay Sedley Wells, Ltd. £47 15s, in default 49 days’ imprisonment, warrant suspended while £1 a week is paid; A. C. Hutchison, salesman, to pay W. J. Weir £l9 10s, in default 21 days’ imprisonment, warrant suspended while £2 a week is paid; Douglas James MacDonald, salesman, to pay Commissioner of Inland Revenue £l2 19s 2d, in default 14 days* imprisonment, warrant suspended while £1 a week is paid; G. Hart, trading as The Canterbury' Inquiry Agency, to pay the Otago Daily Times Company, Ltd. £25 15s, in default 27 days’ imprisonment, warrant suspended while £3 a fortnight is paid. POSSESSION ORDERS

Desmond McCarthy, joiner, was ordered to give possession of a house at 39 Sherborne street, to Margaret Mary Edmonds forthwith and to pay £l9 14s 3d. Pauline Mary Weir, housewife, to give up possession of a house at 32 Truman- road, Bryndwr, to the State Advances Corporation of New Zealand, forthwith, and to pay £ll 2s Id. AWARD PENALTY The Attic Coffee House, Ltd. was ordered to pay £3 as a penalty for an offence against clause 21 of the New Zealand Tearooms and Restaurant Employees’ Award by failing . to exhibit a timetable setting forth the regular weekly hours to be worked by the staff. The Inspector of Awards claimed a £lO penalty.