Magistrate’s Court DRIVER WARNED OF POSSIBLE LOSS OF LICENCE

Press, Volume CI, Issue 30005, 14 December 1962, Page 9

Magistrate’s Court DRIVER WARNED OF POSSIBLE LOSS OF LICENCE

“I warn you, and the traffic department will be informed, that if you ever offend again where your licence can be cancelled, it will be, irrespective of any hardships," Mr E. A. Lee. S-M, said to Mervyn George Timms, a driver, in the Magistrate's Court yesterday. Timms was before the Court on a rehearing in respect of penalty of a charge of driving without due care and attention at Paparua on October 5. On November 29 Timms did not appear to face the charge, and was convicted and fined £l2 and his driver’s licence cancelled for six months. Yesterday Mr J. H. F. Macfarlane represented him. The Magistrate quashed the previous sentence and imposed a fine of £3O. "Your record is bad, and in the interests of road safety you should be off the road, but I realise cancellation represents hardship to other people," the Magistrate said. The offence was a bad one that endangered the lives of two other persons and cancellation of licence was deserved the Magistrate said. CHARGE ADMITTED After leaving a party in Ferry road on November 11 Courtney John Rutledge walked about 500 yards towards the city and then climbed over a gate into premises at 271 Ferry road, said Detective SeniorSergeant A. W. R. Ball. Rutledge, aged 20, a soldier, pleaded guilty to a charge of breaking and entering with intent to commit a crime, and was remanded in the custody of the Army until December 21 for sentence. Detective Senior - Sergeant Ball said that when the accused was interviewed he admitted the offence. He said that after he had climbed over the gate he threw a brick through a window and got into a building. Rutledge said he could find nothing that interested him, and he left. Drink was his only excuse for the offence. FOUND DRUNK William Kenneth Sullivan, aged 48, pleaded guilty to being found drunk at the Christchurch Railway Station on December 12, having been convicted of drunkenness four times within the previous six months. He was fined £5, in default six days’ imprisonment. Reuben Charles Wilfred Darling, aged 48. was fined £3 when he pleaded guilty to being drunk in Manchester street on December 12, having been convicted of drunkenness once in the previous six months. REMANDED On a charge of theft of a ring, valued at £6O, on or about November 30, Clive Belmont Goodenough, aged 22, a sales representative, was remanded to December 21. Bail was allowed. CHARGES ADJOURNED Two charges against Bruce Edward Annan of negligent driving causing the death of Robert Barry Watts and Gaye Elaine Quinn were adjourned until January 15 for the taking of depositions. Annan, aged 19, an apprentice sheet-metal worker, was represented by Mr M. J. Glue. The charges arise from a motor accident at New Brighton on September 30. TRAFFIC CASES In traffic cases brought by the police convictions were entered and fines imposed as follows: Failing to give way: David Alexander Foord, £6; Mervyn Patrick Coughlan, £6; Audrey Joyce Gee, £3 (failing to stop after an accident, £5 and diver's licence suspended for one month); Brian Robert Button, £8; Raymond Leslie Hooper, £5; Gwendoline Frances Kirk, £5; Alan Charles Thomas, £8; Malcoln McGregor Mitchell, £10; Ronald Thomas Thin. £7; Terence Patrick Hickey, £B.

Driving without due care and and attention: Herbert Massey Simpson, £5; Robin Ernest Teale. £4; Gordon Ronald Smith. £10; Geoffrey James Vincent, £5; Dennis Schwass, £3 (no driver’s licence, £3); lan Crawford Shore, £10; Keith David Sutherland. £5 (no warrant of fitness, £2; Gordon Alexander Smart. £8: Henry Turoa Tahuhu. £4; Antonius Johannes van der Heyden, £8; Rhys Arnold Morgan, £4. No warrant of fitnees: Boy Puru Smith, £1; Leo Edward George, £1 (driving vehicle not specified on licence, £3);* Nellie Elizabeth Clarice Cations, £l. Driving when forbidden to by police: Allan Sedley Halliday, £l5 and driver’s licence suspended for six months (no warrant of fitness, £1). Using vehicle before receiving ownership papers: Brian William Kearney, £3 (selling vehicle without warrant of fitness. £3; no warrant of fitness, £3). Failing to stop at traffic lights: Kenneth Martin Bishop, £5 (no warrant of fitness, £3). Proceeding from stop sign before way was clear: Bruce David Hoffman, £3. Failing to notify change of ownership: Stanley James Pearce. £1 (selling vehicle without warrant of fitness, £1). Opening car door so as to

cause Injury: Oswald Charles Abbott, £5. (Before Mr A. P. Blair, S.M.) DANGEROUS DRIVING On a charge of dangerous driving John Andrew Leonard Muir, a soldier, aged 18, was convicted and fined £7 and his driver’s licence was cancelled for two years. Muir (Mr L. H. Moore) pleaded not guilty. Muir's car collided on September 3 .with a car driven by Bevan Brian Johnston, at the comer of Waitham road and Brougham street. The Magistrate said it was established that Muir was driving beyond the speed limit, and from the evidence of the witnesses It was a case of extremely bad driving. OTHER TRAFFIC CASES Other traffic offenders were convicted and fined as follows: Exceeding 30 miles an hour: Samuel Carter, £3 (no warrant, 30s); Frank Shuter, £3: Frank Winston Best, £2; George Blumberger, £5 ; Nople David Morton, £6; Maurice Leslie Tait, £4; Lejas Nemeth, £4; Ransome Albert Bowley, £2; Douglas Fairbanks, £4; Raymond Ernest Maxwell Fine, £5; John Reade McKenzie, £5; Barrie Wallace Robinson. £4; Betty Margaret Allan £3; Sydney Keith Rose, £4; Peter Cumberland Brown, £6; Daphne Elizabeth Brown, £4; Edward Nicholas Cass, £5; Ralph Chaffey, £4; Bruce Frederick Christall, £5; Ivan Francis Coffey, £3; Wilson Owen Cox, £4- George Anthony Craw, £4; Matthew Edward Daubney, £4; Lindsay Davidson, £4; James Russell Donald. £4 (no warrant, £2); Norval Henry Ginn. £5; Patrick Joseph Harnett, £4; Geoffrey Harper. £4; William Heenk, £4; Trevor Clement Heron, £4; Gerard Henry Terrence Jarvis, £2; John Juriss, £5; William Goldie Kaneen, £4; Cyril Herbert Kavanaugh, £4; Kenneth John Kerr, £5 (no safety helmet, £2); Charles Herbert Kirk. £4; James Robert Little £4; Graham Edward Louden. £5; Ronald George McDougall, £3 10s; Samuel McGeorge, £4 (no warrant, 30s); James Magee, £4; Selwyn McAlister Millar, £5; Julius Ruegg Miller £4; John Morrison, £5; William David Murdoch, £4; Roger Lennox Musgrove, £4; Patrick Brett Nixon, £4; Edgar George Popplewell, £4; John Patrick Power, £4; Kevin Patrick Prendegast, £4; William Eric Preston, £4: Audrey Noeline Ruth Robinson, £4; Keith Leslie Raymond, £4; Graeme William Rowe, £4; Graham Rvall, £6- Graeme Eric Sandford £4; 'Peter Michael Sewell, £4; 'Lesley May Simpson, £4; Albert Lawrence Stone, £4; Barry Edward Stretch, £4; Richard Henry Nelson Smith. £4; Roger Allan Urlwln, £4; Hugh Thomas Philip Warelng, £4; Eric Williamson, £4; Bruce Alexander Grant, £4. Exceeding temporary speed limit: Raymond Pat, £1; Ralph Vaughan Glasson, £2; Barr James Allport, £3; Jean Elspeth Boyle, £3- Cornelius Calsbeck, £3: Frank' John Cammock, £1; Gladys Kate MacDougall. £2; Alexander Bain Mackenzie, £2; Colin George Miles, £2; Elsa Marjorie Beryl Moloney, £2; Clifford Garfield Pearce, £2; Jack Ramsden. £2; Thomas Sharpies. £3; Felix Augustus Siegert, £2; Renna Ivy Simpson £2 (no driver’s licence, £3); Cornelius van Voorst, £4, No driver’s licence: David Daniel Robin, £5 (unregistered vehicle, £5, no waramt, convicted and discharged); Malcolm Peter Jackson. £2 (no warrant £2, permitting use of unlicensed vehicle £5); George Henry Castell, £2. Failing to give way at sign; Leonard Durant Hudson, £4; Ellen Laurence Jenkin Davies, £10; Helen Johnston Reid £4; Charles Alfred Loe, £3; John Thompson, £5; Kuan Mu Mao, £2; Frederick Gross, £3. fcxceeding 55 miles an hour: Andrew Byrnes, £4; John Godfrey Hutchinson, £3; Gavin John McKay, £4; Brian Benjamin Sharp, £6; Eric Lionel Tretheway, £5. Exceeding 35 miles an hour in heavy motor-vehicle: Graham James Alexander £5: Bernard James Foley, £2; James Robert Wornock, £3. Carrying pillion passenger contrary to conditions of licence: William Alexander Galt, £2; Robert David Hyde. £2. Failing to carry certificate of fitness: Raymond Maxwell Gilchrist, £5; Southern Bottling Company, Ltd.. £2. Exceeding axle weight. Farrier-Waimak, Ltd., £5 (exceeding heavy-traffic licence, £5). No vehicle authority: Canterbury Contracting Company, Ltd., £3 on each of three charges (failing to carry heavytraffic licence, £1). Exceeding 40 miles an hour with pillion passenger: Anthony Herbert O’Hagan, £6. Travelling at speed too great to stop in half-clear road ahead: William Thomas Rothwell, £2. Permitting unlicensed driver to drive vehicle: Raymond Lamb, £3. Exceeding 40 miles an hour with trailer: John Beattie Macdonald, £3 (no warrant for trailer, £2). Exceeding 30 miles an hour without safety helmet: Alan Lindsay Ross Barwick, £2. Failing to keep to left: John Dennis Clewlow, £3. Insufficient lights: Leslie Frederick Vintiner, £5 (no, warrant, £1). No blue light on vehicle drawing trailer: Bruce Henry Evans, £2. Wrong class of driver’s lic-

ence: Desmond Douglas Gerrard, £2. Failing to dip lights: Arthur Bertram Thorpe, £4. No warrant of fitness: Harold Bandy, 30s. Crossing against traffic lights: Thomas Murray Little, £7. (Before Mr H. Rosen, S.M.) LICENCE CANCELLED Russell Henry Lloyd, aged 20, a joiner, was fined £lO. and his drivers licence was cancelled for 18 months, when he was convicted of driving without due care and attention In Cranford street on September 12. He pleaded not guilty and was represented by Mr R. G. Blunt. On a charge of having no driver’s licence on the same date Lloyd was fined £3, and for having no warrant of fitness he was ordered to pay costs. Pleas of guilty were entered to these charges. FINED £lO On a charge of driving without due care and attention in Main road, Red cliffs, William Henry Darby, aged 78. retired, was fined £lO. He pleaded not guilty, and was represented by Mr R. G. Blunt.