Magistrate’s Court Brakes Failed On Car During Driving Test

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29871, 11 July 1962, Page 8

Magistrate’s Court Brakes Failed On Car During Driving Test

The brakes failed on a car in which a traffic officer was taking a driver for the hill section of a licence test in Dyers Pass road, and the ear stopped only when it ran into the gutter, said Chief Patrol Officer J. Brown in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday.

The owner of the car, James Malcolm McMillan, was fined £5 on a charge of operating a vehicle in a dangerous condition. Mr E. A. Lee, S.M.. was on the Bench. Traffic Officer L. Wilkinson, who was conducting the test, found that both the hand and foot brakes of the vehicle were nearly nonexistent. The driver being tested was a friend of the defendant, eaid Mr Brown. He said the traffic officer drove the car back to the City Council office in a low gear, and then took the car and the defendant to the testing station; “The car was rejected in a warrant of fitness test and described as being in a dangerous condition.” McMillan said he had lost his driver's licence and the car had been kept at home. A friend sought the loan of the car for the test, and he thought it would be all right.

other traffic cases In other traffic charges brought by the Christchurch City Council’s traffic department convictions were entered and fines imposed as follows: Exceeding 30 miles an hour: John Rowland Hayman. £o: Graeme John Walker, £7; Robert Roy Senior, £2; Lionel John Aldridge, £2; John Henry Anderson, £3; Una Beatrice Anderson, £2; Warren Payne Bennett. £2; William Bird. £«; Terence Ernest Burkett, £1 10s; Vera Gertrude Campion. £5; David John Baird Colvin, £2 (not wearing safety helmet, £2l; Rona Joyce Day, £2; Brian George Deavoll, £4; Timothy Keith De Castro, £3; Anthony Paul Drake, £1; Peter Richard Evans. £6: Thomas Andrew Field. £2 (no safety helmet, £2); Hector Weir Gemmell. £2: Alan Ernest Hopke, £2; Trevor Winston Hockey, £3; Peter Hughly, £7; Marion Elsie Kerr, £2; lan Lee. £4; John Ernest McLaren, £3; Donald Henry Markham, £3; Gavin John Moffat. £4 (no safety helmet, costs; no driver s licence, £3>; David Duncan Cameron Myers, £3: William Patterson, £2; Vincent Brian Perham, £3; Richard John Prince, £3; Douglas Robert Rhind, £3; Trevor lan Smith, £3; Raymond Neale . Taylor, £3; Alfred Bennett Tomes. £1; Joseph Brent Watson, £4; John Herbert Wenborn, £2; Sidney Ernest Williamson, £3; John Edward Blackler. £5 (no warrant of fitness, £1): John Robert Bloomfield. £6: Basil Box, £5; lan Neville Buist, £6 (not wearing safety helmet, £2>; William Flavell, £3; Derek Howard Gower, £3; Russell John Howie, £3; Terence Henry Jones, £2; William Geard McElroy. £5; Edwin Glasson Mitchell, £4; Gail* Annette Muirson, £5; Gavin Francis Waid, £5: Thomas Hugh Woodward. £1 (failing to produce driver's licence. £3); Thomas Caldwell. £4; Thomas Mathew Child. £4; Leslie Dickenson. £5; Brian Dingey. £5; Jock Donald Dunn, £4; Kenneth Charles Ga.v. £3; Peter Thomas Gilroy, £4; Lawrence Eustace Graham, £3; Dawn Henderson, £5; Wilfred Bryce Henderson, £5; Peter Overton Heywood. £2; Christopher Howell, £4 (not wearing safety helmet. £2), Marjorie Jerard, £3; Edward Henry Kennedy. £4; Geoffrey Russell Knox, £2; Geoffrey Woodhouse Lee, £4; Phyllis Lilley. £4; Leslie James Mcßride, £2: Roger Leslie McNeill. £3; Peter Henry Marshall. £3; Ronald Walter Mooney, £3; William Joseph Peoples, £3; Charles John Pie, £4; Eileen Davis Reeves, £4; David George Rowland. £3; Mark Frederick Sands, £2; James Lawrence Smith, £4; Ernest Robert Sutton, £4; Kenneth Malcolm Tilley, £3; Lindsay Robert George Waters, £4 Parking offences: Johan Wilhem Diendonne, £1 10s: George Alexander Bruce, £1; Francis Dennis Cantwell, two charges. £5 on each: William John Double. £1; Joseph Gardiner. £3 (failing to comply with directions of traffic officer, £3); Lawrence Peter Verleg. £2; lan Herbert Sail, £5: Philip Walter Beechey, £3; Maurice Patrick Boland. £4; Anthony William Chamberlain. £3; Jon Dench, £2; Alan Charles EasterbrookHill, £3: Edward Elliot. £1: Gordon Melville Glozier. £3: Sydney Harkness. £3; Gordon Shirley Hodson, two charges, £5 each; Ross Donald Charles Patrick, £3; John Osborne, £4; Percy Norman Quartermain, £1 (no registration plates. £1; no warrant of fitness, £1): Freeman John Rhodes, £6, and licence endorsed for three years;

Allan Hamilton Sandford, £3; Bernard John Stoneman, £2; Harry Tony Taumata, £3; George Tuaine two charges. £3 on each; Kimbo Tenlko. £3. No driver's licence: Thomas Louden Austin, £S (no warrant of fitness, £2); George Eric Prime. £3 (no warrant of fitness, £3>: William Thomas Garlick. £2 (no warrant of fitness. £2>: lan Harold Pattison. £3 (no warrant of fitness, £5); Puns Lauris Francis Solomon, £5 (no warrant of fitness. £2); George Tuiane. £3; Philip Graham Wright, £l. No warrant of fitness: Robert lan Stout. £3; Murray James Gibson. £2; Rang! Jarden, £2; Rex Ernest Miles. £3; Kevin James Scalmer. £2; John Sunbeam. £2 (towing trailer without sufficient coupling. £4): Neil ■ Bruce Woodgate, £1: James Nelsen Hodder, £3 (failing to produce licence, £1). Carrying pillion passenger while restricted: Barry James Robin, £5 (no registration plates. £5): Lloyd Ronald Cox, £1 (no driver’s licence, £1 10s); Robert Andrew Kilgour, £2; James Robert Little. £2.

Failing to stop at compulsory stop: William Garth Beardsley, £1; Joel David George Dale, £3: Arthur Gilbert Jones. £3. Driving without due care and attention: Peter Clifford Dixon, £5; John William Hargreaves, £3. Driving against traffic lights: Eric John Hayes, £3; Alexander Gill. £5.

Failing to give way to pedestrian on pedestrian crossing: Hendrik de Haan, £5; Ronald Sydney Philip Wills. £5. Overtaking at intersection: Patrick Paul, £5 (no driver's licence. £2; no warrant of fitness, £2).

Carrying pillion passenger on power cycle: Barry Gibson Johnstone, £l.

Placing dangerous article on footpath: John Christian Sturrock £4. No heavy traffic licence: A. P. Tutton and Son, £2; Mervyn John Williams. £3. Using warning device unnecessarily: Ronald Leonard Goodman £3.

Failing to give information: Beverley Dorris Bower, £5. Failing to give way to right: Michael Graham Malzard, £B. Failing to signal when pulling from kerb: Douglas Alex Robertson, £4.

Allowing cyclist to be towed: Bernard McGuire, costs. (Before Mr A. P. Blair. S.M.) CHARGES DISMISSED

"Although I am impressed by the defendant’s argument, I am not impressed by his lack of his observation during his six years driving on the road in that he was not aware it was a restricted area." said the Magistrate when he dismissed a charge against Eric Hampton Lange of exceeding 30 miles an hour in Cranford street.

Lange pleaded not guilty, and was represented by Mr G. S. Brockett. Traffic Officer B. A. Watson said he checked by microwave the defendant's car travelling 40 miles an hour on April 4 in Cranford street

In evidence Lange said he thought that for those travelling south the restricted area in Cranford street began at the city end of the extension. There was a 30-mile-an-hour sign at the northern end of Cranford street but he did not know it was there until he particularly looked for it after being stopped on April 4. The -ign was well to the side of the road and was partly obscured by a tree.

Tire Magistrate said there were several unsatisfactory aspects about the case.

The Maeistrate dismissed, without hearing evidence for the defence, a charge against Alister Norwell of driving in a manner which micht have been dangerous nn Anri! 20. Norwell denied the charge, and was represented by Mr R G. Blunt. Traffic Officer D. W. Nutira said he saw a car driven by the defendant turn into Radley street from Ferry road at about 30 miles an hour at 1.45 p.m. on April 20 "The car heeled over when turning and went over the middle line of the road while crossing the Radley bridge.” When stopped, (he defendant said he had been foolish and was in a hurrv to get home for lunch, the witness said. Mr Blunt submitted that there was no evidence that the defendant did not have a clear view into Radley street, and that, seeing no traffic comine he had allowed the car to drift over the middle line. CIVIL CASES (Before Mr A. P. Blair, S.M.) JUDGMENT SUMMONSES The following orders were made on judgment summonses: F. P. Clarkson, signwriter, to pay W. J. Dangerfield, trading as Northcote Cycles. £3 Ils, in default four days’ imprisonment; Kevin Bradley, labourer, to pay Cash Order Purchases, Ltd., £49 19s (51 days or £1 a week); T. A. OdgerS, farmer, to pay Lane. Walker, Rudkin, Ltd.. £lO ill days); Norman Merrie, clerk, to pay Sinclair Melbourne

and Company, Ltd., £3 17s (four days); George Power labourer, to pay Jane White £BO 12s 6d (82 days or £1 a week); R. E. Mathie, workman to pay M. J. Aitcheson, trading as Lucia Dairy. £3 12s 7d (four days); D. Everest, 25 Onawe street. St. Albans, to pa,v Charles Begg and Company. Ltd., £2 17s 9d (three days); H. W. Williams, builder, to pay Electric Washer Service Company. £l5 15s (16 days or £1 a week); N. Clydesdale, builder, to pay John F. Curtis. £2 0s 6d (three days); C. Burns, labourer, to pay Thomas Gibson. £46 14s 6d (48 days or £1 a week); B. W. Lintern. married woman to pay Wardells-Kin-caids Ltd., £9 3s (10 days or 10s a week); N. King, married woman, to pay J. M. Lamb, trading as Bernina shop. £l9 10s (20 days or 10s a week): P. McFarlane, married woman, to pay Aranuf Properties. Ltd £l3 15s 7d (14 days or 10s a week); G. Liddell., soldier, to pay B. Dobbs, dental surgeon. £42 Ils (44 days or £1 a week).