Magistrate’s Court INTOXICATED DRIVER GAOLED FOR SEVEN DAYS

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29841, 6 June 1962, Page 8

Magistrate’s Court INTOXICATED DRIVER GAOLED FOR SEVEN DAYS

Seven days' imprisonment. with cancellation of his driver’s licence for three years, was imposed on Andrew John Black, aged 41, a farm labourer, when he pleaded guilty in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday to a charge of driving while under the influence of drink or drugs. Mr E. A. Lee. S.M., was on the Bench. Sergeant V. F. Townshend said t>h®t a traffic officer on duty in Riccarton at 7.45 p.m. on Monday was told that a car being driven in Yaldhurst road was weaving from side to side. When the traffic officer reached the car it was parked with the lights on full. It was started and driven a short distance before being stooped by the traffic officer The traffic officer formed the opinion that Black was unfit to drive, and he was later certified as unfit to drive by a police doctor. STOLE CAMERAS Pleading guilty to stealing cameras and accessories, of a total value of £67 10s. on June 4, David Douglas McDonald, aged S 3, was convicted and remanded until June 11 for sentence. Bail was granted. Sergeant Townshend said that two men parked their cars in Hatley avenue about 2 p.m. and watched a women’s hockey match. Both men had cameras in their cars and later in the afternoon a friend of one of the men sew a man ceding away from the ears. The cameras were found to be missing, and the men chased the accused. When overtaken, he admitted the thefts. He said he had taken the ’cameras on a vague impulse. DISMISSED . A charge against Terence Raloh William O'Shea King, aged 43, of assaulting his wife on Jerne 2. was dismissed through lack of prosecution. His wife declined to give evidence. King (Mr A. K Archer) pleaded not guilty. REMANDED On a joint charge of burglary at a service station at 121 Sea view road. New Brighton, on June 4, Daivd Joseph Fitzsimmons, aged 22. and Bruce Robert Hull, aged 29, were remanded on bail until June 11. Applications for suporession of name were refused. On a charge of false pretences on Mav 20. involving £lO IQs, David Tomlins, aged 21. a workman, was remanded until June 8. On charges of driving while under the influence of drink or drugs and having illegal lottery tickets in his possession on May 28. Arthur George Lawson, aged 27, was remanded on ball until June 18. George Bernard Lawson, aged 65, was remanded on bail until June 18 on a charge of using obscene language on May 28.

Charged with driving on the Main North road under the influence of drink or drugs on June 2. Keith Albert Churoher was remanded on bail until June 11. TRAFFIC CASES

On traffic charges brought by the Christchurch City Council traffic department

convictions were entered and fines imposed, as follows: Exceeding 30 miles an hour: Noel Sparks, £6; Alan Bruce Abernethy. £3; Elyin Lucas Arvanitis. £2; Neville Arthur Brittliffe. £3 (no warrant of fitness. £2); Bevin Henry Chamberlain. £4; Lodewijk de Jong. £3; Frank Egerton Dennis. £5: Ludovicus Wilhelm Doll. £4; Kevin John Donaldson. £3: Laurie Edwards. £4; Kelynge, Everest England, £5; Charles Emery Field. £2; Cyril Joseph Fifield, £3; Thomas Berward Fitzgerald, £3; Arthur lan Gibson, £4: Mervyn Rowland Good. £3; Alexander Richard Goodman. £3; Brian Morbert Guerin. £4; Neville Murray Hepburn, £3 (no warrant of fitness. £1): Paul Douglas Hooker, £4; John Eric Howie, £5; Jocelyn Ailsa Innes. £4: Murray Edwin Johnstone. £4: John Kavanagh, £1; Eric lan Knox, £3: Laszlo Kopiari. £4; Bernard Lagrosse. £4: Raymond Ivan Lawson Lockie. £5; Harold Cuthbert McCaskey, ’£4: Raymond Owen ' Charles McEntee. £2; Donald Bruce McLeod, £5; Alexander Massie. £3 (no warrant of fitness. £1); Samuel Maxwell. £4: Joan Morgan. £5: Kenneth Edward Newsome, £5 and driver’s licence endorsed; Malcolm Herbert Pearce, £5; Neville Walter Price. £2; Foster Walter Purdon. £3: Dorothy Blanche Read. £3; James Richardson. £4; Edith Ada Robinson. £4: Lillian May Rolton. £3: Morris Francis Salomen. £4; Terrance Michael Salt, £4: Paulus Bernardus Schaays. £4: Frank Schimanski. £4: John Somerville Scott, £3: Cyril Ernest Smith. £4; Murrav Goodsman Smith. £4: Shirley Yvonne Soper. £4: Richard Frederick Swindell, £4: Roy Rew Townsend. £4; Winston John Thompson, £3: Eric Lionel Tretheway, £4; Graeme John Walker. £4 and driver’s licence endorsed: Peter James Ward. £4; George Wealleans. £3; Bruce Charles Wells, £4 (following another vehicle too closely, £6); Robert Allan Wteherall, £4; Kenneth Douglas Wright. £3: Wesley Jack Yee. £3; Colin Poultney, £4; Rodney Thirwell Tomlinson. £5 (supplying false information. £2; no driver's licence. £3l.

Parking offences: Richard Arthur Edwards. £3; Percy Norman Quartermain, £ 1 (no front number-plate. £2»; Phillip Walter Beechey, £3; Herbert Martin Blazey. convicted and discharged; Claude Robert McQuoid, £3 (no warrant of fitness. £5); Richard Francis Rutledge. £4; Gus Urlich, £3.

Failing to give way to the right: Ronald Ernest Edward Davis, £8; Puhi Moana Ropiha. £7; Gary Peter Stratford, £B.

Failing to signal intention to turn right: David Paul Hatwell, £5 (no warrant of fitness, £2); William John Pearcy. £3. Failing to give information: George Humphries and Dorothy Humphries (jointly charged). £2 10s each; Hartwool (N.Z.), Ltd., £5. Driving without due care and attention: Thomas David Flynn, £8; Athol John Nixon, £7 (no certificate of fitness, £3; no heavy traffic licence, £3).

Driving vehicle otherwise thari that specified on driver’s licence: John James Thomas Glass, £3; Gustav Vegeueris, £l. Failing to keep left: Garry Alexander Jamieson, £5; Thomas Robert Neiman, £5; Douglas Boulton Redmond, £2. No driver's licence: Robert George Kane, £3; Peter Robert Urbon, £5 (no front registration plate, £1; no warrant of fitness, £3). Using driver's licence with words altered: Graeme Seymour Trillo, £lO (no front registration plate, £2; expired meter, £1). Failing to stop at sign: Douglas MacKail, £3: Ernest Allan Richardson, convicted and discharged. * Towing trailer with insufficient brakes: Thomas Nevin Anderson, £4; Thomas Hickling Scarlett, £3. Failing to stop at traffic lights: Allan Royce Edwards. £7 No certificate of fitness: Wainoni Dairy. Ltd., £5. Failing to yield right of way to pedestrian on crossing; Raymond Lancelot Blythe, £5. Carrying pillion passenger while restricted: Christopher Robert Howell, £3. Altering date of birth on driver’s licence: Howard De=mond Hanson, £lO. No current driver’s licence: Brian Downs Bums, £3. Towing cyclist: Bruce Robert Hull, £l. Permitting cycle to be towed: David Joseph Fitzsimmons, £l. (Before Mr N. M. Izard, S.M.) CHARGE AMENDED After hearing evidence for the prosecution and the defence on a charge against David Allen Smith, aged 30 a driver, of driving Jn a manner which might have been dangerous, the Magistrate amended the charge to one of driving without due care and attention. Smith pleaded not guilty to the original charge but guilty to the amended one He was represented by Mr D J Hill. A fine of £7 10s was imposed. Traffic Officer A. Laing said he saw a van driven by the defendant travelling more than 30 miles an hour in Lichfield street at 9.55 a m on March 13. He chased the van and saw it swerve to the incorrect side of the road to pass a vehicle and then narrowly miss a pedestrian who was crossing the road.

The van then cut the corner into Durham street and the driver gave no indication that he intended to turn, and at the Cashel street lights the van went through the amber light. Colin Robert Campbell said that he was crossing Lichfield street and had to

run to avoid being hit by the van. In evidence Smith said that he missed Campbell easily and would have braked if he thought he was going to hit him. He said the way was clean to his right and left when he turned into Durham street, FINED £4 lan Stirling Miller was convicted and fined £2 on each of charges of exceeding 30 miles an hour and failing to stop at a stop sign on December 19 He pleaded not guilty to both charges and conducted his own defence. CIVIL CASES (Before Mr A. P. Blair. S.M.) JUDGMENT SUMMONSES The following orders were made on judgment summonses: Jack Douglas Osborne, labourer. to pay W. H. Smith (Builders). Ltd.. £39 19s 4d. in default 41 days' imprisonment, warrant suspended while 5s a week is paid: C. F. McDonald, steward, Oxley street, to pay Maddens and Richards, Ltd.. £2 15s lOd forthwith (three days); William Thomas Jacob, yardman, to pay B. D. Winfield £7 4s forthwith (eight days); Mary Veronica Dolheguy. packer, to pay B D. Winfield £35 6s (37 days or 10s a week; D. M. BanCashmere road, to pay J. W. Ramsay £l2 12s (13 days or £1 a week); J. Reeves, Farrington avenue, to pay Anthony Shearer, Ltd., £ll 17s 4d (12 days or £1 a week); James Joseph Hodgson, labourer, Tedder avenue, to pay John Burns and Companv. Ltd:, £34 13s Id (36 davs or £1 a week); R. W. C. Stuart, labourer, Gayhurst road, to pay F. E. S. Dale and Oldham £ll 3s (12 days or £1 a week); D. J. Becker, Hampshire street, to pay Dolph Cook £27 (29 days or £1 a week).