Magistrate’s Court Destitute Youth Given Suspended Sentence

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30057, 15 February 1963, Page 14

Magistrate’s Court Destitute Youth Given Suspended Sentence

Barry Haven Molloy, aged 17, a workman, was convicted in the Magistrate's Court yesterday and ordered to come up for sentence within 12 months, if called upon, when he pleaded guilty to a charge of being idle and disorderly in that he had insufficient lawful means of support on February 6. Mr A. P. .Blair, S.M, was on the bench.

Sergeant B. D. Reid said Molloy was found by the police in Cathedral square in an untidy condition. He said he had not eaten since February 3, and had borrowed money to pay the rail fare from Invercargill to Christchurch. He had only 3d in his possession and had been unemployed since before Christmas.

OBSCENE LANGUAGE Pleading guilty to a charge of using obscene language in Colombo street yesterday, Clifford Earl Watson, aged 28, a deer culler, was convicted and fined £lO. REMANDED Kerl Waihope, aged 32. charged with burgling premises at 227 Manchester street on or about February 3. was remanded in custody to February 22. James Gilchrist Watson, aged 39, charged with assaulting bls wife on February 13, was remanded on bail to February 22.

Richard Bernard McKeman, aged 40, charged with driving while under the influence of drink or drugs on February 13, and with using threatening words in a public place, was remanded on bail to February 21. TRAFFIC CASES

In traffic cases brought by the police, convictions were entered and fines imposed as follows:

Driving without due care and attention: Paul John Neeson, £10: David Ross Rough, disSualifled from obtaining a river’s licence for one year (no driver's licence, costs only); John Percival Smith, £5; Barry Michael Hapeta, £7 (wrong class of driver’s licence, £2); Lois Josephine Chtrnside, £5 (no warrant of fitness. £1); Colin Gilmore Grubb, £6; Graeme Walter Osborne, £l5; Peter Thomas Stanley, £5; Gordon Laurence Newton, £5. Failing to give way: Peter Leslie Chaney, driver’s licence suspended for one month; Heather Jane Hay. £4; Barry Clements Anderson. £10; Francis John Campbell. £10; John Andrew Axelsen, £6 (no warrant of fitness, £2); Desmond James Gentleman. £4: Frank John Kassa, £6; Katherine Joyce Sumpner, £1: Doreen Stewart. £4; David John Thomas, £6. Failing to stop after an accident: Eric- Harman Mellet. £2O and driver’s licence cancelled for three months (driving without due care, and attention, £5). Reckless driving: Michael George Dearman, £2O and driver’s licence cancelled for 18 months (exceeding 30 miles an hour without a safety helmet, and carrying a pillion passenger without a safety helmet, costs only). using unlicensed motor vehicle: Frank Anthony Crowe. £3.

Falling to give way at sign: Jerry Huripkra Wanoa, £6; Roger MacFarlane Drummond, £4.

No warrant of fitness: Lance Edward Nalsbitt, £1; Roy Graham Holmes, £l. Dangerous driving: Kenneth George Poole, £lO and driver's licence cancelled for 18 months. (Before Mr E. S. X Crutchley, SM.) DROVE WITHOUT CARE Thomas Lewis, aged 77, was fined £3 and ordered to pay witnesses’ expenses of £4, and his driver’s licence cancelled when he was convicted on a charge of driving without due care and attention on December X Lewis (Mr W. A. Wilson) pleaded not guilty to the charge. His driver’s licence was ordered not to be reneared until be underwent a driving and medical testEvidence tor the prosecution

was given of Lewis travelling along Ferry road in an erratic manner before striking two parked cars near Richardson avenue.

Lewis said he was a mild diabetic and had never been affected by it before. He was under medical care and had never suffered a blackout. He could remember nothing of the accident.

The Magistrate said it could not be held Lewis was in a state of automation as he drove erratically for about one mile and it should have been apparent earlier that something was wrong.

CARELESS DRIVING Even though failure of the defendant’s brakes had been the immediate cause of the accident, the fact that he failed to see the car until he was between 25 and 30 yards away

demonstrated some lack of attention, said the Magistrate convicting Allan Frederick Leyden, a driver (Mr L. H. Moore), for driving without due care and attention on Blenheim road on October 10. Leyden, who pleaded not guilty, was fined £6.

About 5 p.m. on October 10, a truck driven by Leyden struck a car which was stationary in Blenheim road waiting to turn into Hansons lane. His truck glanced from the car into a heavy truck, and the two vehicles, locked together, careered up over a footpath and into a fence.

Leyden said he had just overtaken the other truck, and suddenly saw the car ahead. He tried to apply the brakes, but could not depress the pedal. The linkage, he later found, had become caught up with those of the clutch. He then tried to veer between the two vehicles, but did not have enough room. CHARGE ADJOURNED

Decision on a charge against Nell Roderick Holland, a car dealer (Mr P. M. Joyce), of driving without due care and attention on November 12, was adjourned till today pending the calling of another witness. Holland pleaded not guilty. Holland, while testing a car was involved in a collision with a vehicle driven by Harold Flewellyn, at the intersection □f Durham and Wordsworth streets.

Holland said he saw the other car coming from his right. As the interesection was off-set, and the other vehicle would have had to change direction

to continue through the crossing, he thought it was obliged to give way. When he saw the driver did not intend stopping, he tried to halt, but the brakes failed to hold and a collision occurred. The Magistrate said brake failure would be sufficient excuse for the mishap. The case was adjourned pending the testimony of an officer at the city council's • testing station where the vehicle was checked shortly after the accident. TRANSPORT CASES In eases brought by the Transport Department, convictions were entered and fines imposed as follows: — Exceeding 30 miles an hour: Kenneth Raymond Wright. £5; Graham William Neale. £5 (exceeding 30 miles an hour without a safety helmet, £2); Ronald Edward Argus. £5; Gordon Barnes. £4; Henry Percival Albert Broad, £3; David Graham Bush, £3: Robert Charles Chapman, £4; Eric George Clifford. £3: Cyril Douglas Cunningham. £4: Donald Bruce Cutler, £3; William John Davidson, £3: John Arthur Fielding, £3: Doreen Shirley Finnerty. £3; John Gordon Fletcher. £4: Patricia Halligan, £4; Richard Edward Joseph Hardman, £5; Malcolm Charles Hyde. £3; Olive Peggy Jarman. £4; Noel Kemp, £4; Doreen Edith Kennelly. £4: George Frederick Lovegrove, £4; Archibald Ivan McLachlan. £4; Roeer Keith Mason, £4: Meryl Dorothy Melhopt. £4: Kevin Porter Moffat. £4: Kenneth Edwin Nicholls. £3: Veronica Bernice O’Connor. £3: Lorraine Beverley Oliver. £2; Neville John O'Sullivan. £3: Robert Frank Page. £3; Derek Francis Ouieley, £4: Mary Elizabeth Richan, £4; Eugene Gerald Ringdahl, £3: Samuel

Reddock Todd, £4; Ronald Yorke Trigance, £4; William James Murray Valentine, £3; Margaret Elizabeth Vickery, £4: Douglas Thornton Von Pein, £4 (no warrant of fitness, 30s): James Walker-Grace, £3; Herbert James Wilson, £4; Audrey Ann Withell, £4; Frank Woods. £4; Norman Raymond Wright, £4; John Joseph Wyllie, £4; Neville Robert Field. £3: Ronald Francis Forsythe, £3.

Exceeding temporary speed limit: John Edward Fattorwi, £2; Gerald Thomas Gjbson £3: Bryan Joyce, £3: Melville Kenneth Smart, £3; Brian John Topp. £3.

Crossing against lights: Maxwell Pearl. £7: Lewis Norman Austin. £5: George Bennett. £3: Ross McFarlane, £5: Marv Moorhouse. £4: Robin Rhodes. £5: Hendrickus Marie van Venrooy, £7.

Driving at a speed too great to stop in halt the clear distance ahead: Robert Vernon Chapman. £7; Ivan Russell Clarke. £5. Failing to stop at sign: Derek Edward Moore. £3; Gary John Snow, £3; Vincent Wadsworth Kirkwood, £3.

Carrying pillion passenger with L plates: Malcolm John Robertson, £2. Insufficient lights: Allan Edric Frazer, £5; Kevin Edward Bartlett, £3.

Aiding and abetting being towed by motor-cycle: William Francis Gleeson, £2. Riding power-cycle without headlight: lan Barry Kimber. No warrant of fitness: Jack Reardon. £l. Driving without due care: Allan Frederick Leyden, £5. No driver’s licence: Eric James Johnson. £3; Paul William Power, £B.