Magistrate's Court Taxi-Driver Fined For Touting And Over-Charging

Press, Volume C, Issue 29641, 11 October 1961, Page 11

Magistrate's Court Taxi-Driver Fined For Touting And Over-Charging

Wltttam George Rain*, a (Mr 1 J. C Poi. s-on) w* s fined £3 in the Magtotrate's Court yesterday Si* £ leavin < h * to tout for passengers, fcl on a charge at permitting « <*her than the hi«f to ride in » taxi, and £3 on *J*trge at imposing * rfarge which differed from to* amount allowed. He pleaded not guilty to all charges. Mr X S. J. Orutchley, S.M, wagon th* Bench. william George Roland* gav* evidence that on Sunhe arrived at Chrialchureh on th* Dunedin rail-te. He went to one end o* too station building and amaj"* He got into the taxi and before it moved off the driver a«*d persons standing nearty if then? m anyone driver then moved up to the main door of the station. Z he J 5 axl *t the main door of the station, the driver got out and asked byManders if there were any ST A P “ B X neer ’ for SpTeyson, a young woman then got into the taxi. The witness said that at no tone did the driver ask him If he objected to other pasaengCTs being carried. The young man was dropped off flrM and charged 4*. The taxi then drove on and dropped off the girl, who was charged ss. When the witness’s home was reached he alighted and was.charged 6s. Harold Benjamin Barker, a traffic officer of the Christdiurch Csty Council, said that he had measured the distance travelled by the taxi and it was three miles and a fifth. A sum of 15s was charged: the correct charge was 6s 6d. Mr Polson said that the case was rather unusual in that the defendant had no recollection of the facts of the case. At peak hours it was apperently the practice of some drivers to take some pasengers on together. It was lust another case of multiple hiring. In this case the passengers had made no complaint and Rains had taken this as tacit consent to the use of the taxi in the manner Stated Rains said in evidence that be could not remember the particular incident. He said he was ait the time not conversant with the rules about the driving of taxis. He had had 12 months’ experience as an owner-driver at this time. FAILED TO GIVE WAY Douglas Elliot Scott (Mr N. G. Hattaway) was fined £2 on a charge of failing to give way at a give-way sign. He pleaded not guilty. B. Watson, a traffic officer employed by the dhristchurch City Council, said that at .4.46 pm. on June 25 he saw a car driven by Scott along Edgeware road fail to give way to a vehicle on the left at Cranford street. There were give-way signs at this point. When stopped Scott at first did not seem to know he had to give way to the left at toe signs. He later maintained that there was no traffic on his left, said the witness. . Scott said that he had nearly stopped at the intersection to allow a bus to turn into Cranford street. The only other vehicle was a small brown one some distance up the road. He said that his wife and family were with him in the car, and none of them had seen the car to which it was alleged he had failed to give way. The Magistrate said toere was no reason to doubt toe traffic officer, but it waa quit* obvious that Scott believed his story was true.

OTHER TRAFFIC CHARGES Other traffic offenders prosecuted by the Christchurch City Council were dealt with aa follows: Exceeding 30 mil** an hour: Boland James Alston, £2; Lumsden Garth Taylor, £2; Cohn Noel Mullins, £3; Gavin Machine* Alexander, £3; Raymond Arthur Arey, £2; Fergus Buchanan Campbell, £2; James Samuel Clarke, £2; Gordon Cullen, £2; Marjory Maude Davis, £2; Frank John Densom, £2; Brian Charles Dungey. £4 too driver’s licence, £3); Raleigh Winstone Emerson, £3 10s; Warren Noel Houghton, £4 and licence suspended for one month (carrying pillion passenger not wearing a helmet, £3); Graeme Howard, £3; Athol Jame* Kelly, £3; Martin Joseph Lee, £2; Raymond Stewart McKenzie, £2; Osborne David McQueen, £3 (no safety helmet, £2); lan Gordon Magill, £3; George Brewton Malcolm, £3; David William Morris, £2; Ron Moulton, £2; Brian Edward Riach, £4: Ernest William Rogers, £2; Crawford John Russell, £2; William Samson, £3; Kenneth Alexander Stevenson, £2; Peter William ' TootiH, £2; Gordon Sloan Troup, £4; Robert Gilmour Wilson, £3; Ronald Samuel Wilson, £3; Thomas John Brennan, £3. Failing to atop for school patrol: Joy May Nicholls, £5; Patricia June Clark, £5. Parked within 30ft of an intersection: Brian Norbett Guerin, £3. Failing to stop at compulsory stop: Noel Clarke, £2: Mavis Rita Davis, £3; Georgina Marjory Reeve, £2; Alfred John Green, £3; John Bertram Joyner, £2. Parked in expired meter space: Kenneth Thomas Davy, £1 Is. Failed to carry current warrant of fitness: George Lawrence Donahue, £3; Thomas Cornelius Vink, £1 10s (towing trailer without adequate coupling, £3; insufficient lights, £2); Charles Sydney • Benton, 10s (towing trailer without safety chain, £3); Neil William Gee, 10s (operating unregistered vehicle, £3). Stopped on offside of another vehicle: Robert Douglas Hall, £3; Claude Robert McQunid, £3. Failed to supply information: Heron’s Tyre Service, Ltd., £3. Goods service vehicle parked during hours of darkness without rear red light Patrick O’Connell, £2. No driver’s licence: John Ronan, £4 (insufficient lights, £1 IQs). Overladen trade vehicle: Stanley Hilton ’Hielning, £5 (no certificate of fitness, £5, no current heavy traffic licence, £2). Stopped on bus stop: John Harald Baird. £l. „ Cycling without head-Ught Matthew Hunt, £2 (no rear red light, costs only). Failed to comply with traffic lights: Arthur John leigh. £3. Failed to give way: Brian Edward Roberts, £5. Operating vehicle with dirty windscreen: Peter Rosewaroe, £5.

Registration {dates not affixed: Coßeea Hart, £2. No heavy traffic Bcenoe: F. J. Beban, Ud, £2. ; Driving without due eare . and attentions Bernard John . Hanna, £4. B (Before Mr E. & 3. Crutchlay, SM) i TimiNW) Jtim Donnelly, aged 28, a . driver (Mr B. J. Drake), was ; remanded on bail to October , 19 on a charge of assault. , Bryan Leslie Bishop, aged ■ 20, a workmarx was reI manded on bail to October ,10 on a charge of stealing » 9jd. • CIVIL CASES ’ (Before Mr E. A Lee, SM) ; JUDGMENT SUMMONSES t -The following orders were I made on judgment sume mooses:— . E. Didtinscm, married woman, to pay Mrs Pope, 1 Ltd., £7 14s 3d, in default . eight days* imprisonment, 1 warrant suspended while £1 . a week is paid; George | Keith Ayres to pay Murray I Hatcherd £5O 7s 6d, in default > 60 days* imprisonment, war--1 rant suspended while £1 a i week is paid; J. Poulsen, I married woman, to pay T. C. i and S. W. Smith £5 8s lid, t in default six days* imprison- , meat, warrant suspended r while £1 a week is paid; D. ■ W. Ford, labourer, to pay > Tracy and Wood M 15s, in ■ default seven days* impdson- ! ment; C. M. Omelvina, mari ried woman, to pay G. Howden and Company, Ltd., £3 1 9s, in default four days' , imprisonment, warrant sus- ■ pended while £1 a week is > paid; Nancy May Parata, t married woman, to pay W. A. Pickup and Company £l5 ' Ils 6d, in default 16 days' 1 imprisonment, warrant sus- '* pended while 5s a week is • paid; A. A. Savill to pay > G. D. Bary £37 10s, in default 40 days’ imprisonment, warr rent suspended while £5 a 1 week is paid; Harlan Alder- . son, surfaceman, to pay K. ‘ B. McArthur £l2l 14s 7d, in ‘ default three months' j imprisonment, warrant suspended while £1 a week is 1 paid; D. McJarrow, married ’ woman, to pay Springs Road ; Garage £3 15s, In default ■ four days’ imprisonment, ’ warrant suspended while £1 I a week is paid; Rebecca 1 Nicholls, housewife, to pay . W. A Pickup and Company t £34 5s 6d, in default 36 days’ , imprisonment, warrant sus- • pended while £1 a week is . paid; Paitricia Margaret Robinson, married woman, to ’ pay W. A. Pickup and Com- , peny £9 Is, in default 10 j days* imprisonment, warrant I suspended while £1 a week is paid; J. M. Johnston, ; married woman, to pay Butt ler Cycle Company, Ltd., £7 10s 6d, in default eight days* ■ imprisonment, warrant susj pended white £1 a week is 4d, in default nine days* i imprisonment, warrant suspended white £1 10s a week : is paid: Roy Coutts to pay r Scooter and Moped Services £l6 4s 9d, in default 17 days’ i imprisonment, warrant susi pended while £2 a week is paid; William Edward Gali breith, tabouret, to pay L. T. Lovwtidge £57 17s, in i default 60 dayp* imprison- - ment, warrant * suspended white £1 a week is paid.