Magistrates Court BROKE INTO HOUSE AND STOLE £18

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30143, 29 May 1963, Page 12

Magistrates Court BROKE INTO HOUSE AND STOLE £18

Charged with breaking and entering a house at 31 Golt Links road on March 30, Simon Patrick Cafianan, aged 21, a workman, was convicted and remanded on bail to May 31 for sentence by Mr E. S J. Crutchley, SM., in the Magistrate's Court yesterday. Callanan (Mr G. T. Mahon) pleaded guilty. Senior - Sergeant G. M. Cleary said the house was broken- into and £lB taken from a drawer. Callanan was on probation at present for an offence committed since March 30. Mr Mahon said that Callanan was sentenced on May 3 on a similar charge. He had worked steadily since his conviction and the present charge was in the nature of a wash-ing-up charge. FINED £3 Robert Charles Fluty was fined £3 when he pleaded guilty to committing a breach of probation in that he failed to report on March 21.

FOUND DRUNK Pleading guilty to being found drunk in Manchester street on May 27, James O’Brien, aged 56, a workman, was fined £2. He was a statutory second offender. DANGEROUS SPEED

Brian John Roberts, aged 20, a railways employee, was fined £l2 10s, and his driver’s licence was cancelled for a year from June 12, when he was convicted on a charge of driving at a speed which might have been dangerous on February 6. Roberts (Mr W. A. Wilson), pleaded not guilty. Traffic Officer J. T. Kotoul said he checked Roberts by microwave at 5.20 p.m: travelling 55 miles an hour In Ferry road near Woolston Park. Roberts said he was travelling 40 to 45 miles an hour while passing two other vehicles. PEDESTRIANS FINED Pedestrians had as much of an obligation as motorists, said the Magistrate when fining Warren Stanley Evans £3 on a charge of failing to comply with traffic lights. The Court was told Evans ignored the traffic lights in Manchester street near the Majestic Theatre, disrupting the flow of traffic as he crossed the road.

Weston George Smith was fined £3 for a similar offence at the same place. CHARGE DISMISSED

A charge against Frank Edwards (Mr R. G. Blunt), of parking in an expired meter space, was dismissed. Edwards said the meter was jammed when he attempted to put 3d in. REMANDED David Ernest Hancox, aged 17, a workman, ’was remanded in custody to May 31 on a charge of breaking and entering the premises of the Canterbury Farmers’ Co-operative Company at Falrlle yesterday. Asking that the remand be in custody. Senior-Sergeant Cleary said Hancox had vanished when required' to appear as a witness in the Supreme Court. OTHER TRAFFIC CASES

In other traffic cases brought by the Christchurch City Council traffic department, convictions were entered and fines imposed as follows: — Exceeding 30 miles an hour: Timothy Keith de Castro, £7 (licence endorsed for one year); Arthur Norman Chambers, £5 (licence endorsed for one year); Kevin Patrick Prendergast, £5 (licence endorsed for one year); Richard Atkinson, £4; Hulbert Machiel Bekker, £4; Callum David Kennedy, £3 10s; Ronald George Smith £3 10s; Kevin A. O’Connor, £6' (licence endorsed for one year); David Irwin Barrow, £5 (licence suspended for two months and endorsed for one year); Charles Richard Bent. £3; John Allan Boyd, £7 (licence endorsed for one year); John Cairns, £3; Ross Thornhill Cooper, £4; Barry John Cottle £4; John -Matthew Glasgow, £2; Brian Robert Gray, £5; Michael Green, £5 (licence endorsed for one year); Barry Keith Gregory, £4; James Edward Hamlin, £5; Brian William Hardie, £4; Derek Richard Harrison, £5; Desmond Hugh Hoare £5 (licence endorsed for one year);. Barrie Evan Keetley, £4; Geoffrey Woodhouse Lee, £2 10s; Harold William Leith, £5 (licence endorsed for one year); Robert Francis Lineham, £4: William George McCullum, £4; Leslie George Martin, £4; Russell James Mathews. £2 (np safety helmet, £2; pillion passenger with no safety helmet, £2); William Donovan Murie, £4; Stanley Edwin Ogg, £4; Ivan Pat, £4; Jack Beilby Pegg, £4; Lajos Puskas. £4; David Brenton Renolds £4: Desmond A. Richards. £5; Malcolm Frank Scott, £4; Donald Ross Smith £5; Robert Smith, £5 (licence endorsed for one year); Bruce Ernest Taylor, costs only; Mervyn Craig Sullivan. £4; William Henry Timms. £2; Arnold Jukes Trotter, £4; Selwyn George Withers. £4. Parking offences: Leo George Devine, £3; Arthur George Munday. £1 (no warrant of fitness £5): Arthur Miles Smith. £1; George Frederick Bruce. 10s: Frank Walmsley £5; Cyril Joseph Sutton. £3; Thomas William Gibbs, £3; Leslie Joseph Walsh. £2:. Thomas Heaton Barnes, £2; Graham John Kelly £1 10s; Clarence AndrewTweedie £1 10s; David James Wilson £1 10s: Brian Thomas Horton' £4; John Russell Henderson, £2; Claude Robert McQuoid, £5; lan George J. Rutledge, £3 (parked in expired meter space, £1); • pl > Ui E. ert Best £2; Michael Edward Avery. £3 (failed to produce licence, £2); Barry Norman Hewlett, £3; Anthony Richard Nixon. £3; Patricia Ann Northam, £3; Lyndsay Robin. £3. Arie Stikkelman, £5: Herbert Kendall. £3. Failed to stop at compulsory stop sign: Ernest Wilkinson. £2; Cornelius Hoogervirst, £3; John Rae Mcßae, £2; Gary Keith Smitheram, £3: Stanley James Colenso, £3 (no warrant of fitness £2); Owen Allan Dewe. £3; 'Douglas Stewart Laird, £3; Peter Thomas Mattison, £3: Peter George Glausiuss. £3: Kathleen Chadderton, £l. Failed to yield right of way: Frank John Cammock, £7 (disqualified for six weeks, licence endorsed for one year); Stwan Laurena Ford, £4; William Robert Woods. £7 i licence suspended for one month, endorsed for one year). Using unregistered vehicle: Dick Robert Scott, costs only (no driver’s licence, costs only; no warrant of fitness, costs only). ■Driving without due care and attention: J-udith Margaret Forster, £2. „„„ No warrant of fitness: William Ross, £2; Peter Jamison Beaven. £2; Peter Warren Huxford £4; lan James Rich an. £l;’ Edward Arthur Saywell. £4: Stanley Jerrard. £2 Driving vehicle not specified on licence: Joseph Harry Annan, £3; Raymond John Kennerley, Ifts; Carl Matliiew Finn, £3. „ Failed to comply with traffic lights: John Raymond Harrison. £lO (licence endorsed for one year). _ Insecure load: Rolph Sydney Trowbridge. £7 10s. Not displaying heavy traffic licence: N.Z. Express Company. Ltd., £2 (not carrying certificate of fitness, £2). Unlicensed trailer: Lyndsay John Parlane, £2 (no warrant of fitness for trailer, 10s). Failed to signal right hand turn: CoUn Allan Stace, £3. Cycling without front light: Robert Hector Kerr. £2; CoUn Smith, £2.

Failed to dip lights: Patrick Leonard Kirk, £3. Insufficient lights: Kerry James GiH, £2. Failed to supply information: James Robert Cook, £2. Carrying pillion passenger while restricted: Kerry Williams, £1 10s (failing to produce driver’s licence. £1 10s). Exceeding 20 miles an hour on power-cycle: Richard John Venis, £2. (Before Mr A. P Blair. SJg.) CHARGE REDUCED A charge against Ronald Percival Barnsley, a car salesman, of driving at a speed which might have been dangerous on January 27, was amended to one of driving without due care and attention. On the amended charge. to w’hich Barnsley pleaded guilty, he was fined £lO and his driver's licence cancelled for three months. He pleaded not guilty to the original charge. A charge of overloading a rental vehicle was dismissed. Barnsley pleaded not guilty. He was fined £lO for failing to supply information, to which he pleaded guilty. The Magistrate said that Barnsley's speed on Colombo street when crossing Brougham street was potentially dangerous, but there were factors which justified reducing the charge of dangerous speed. CIVIL CASES (Before Mr B. S. Barry'. S.M.) JUDGMiENT SUMMONSES The following orders were made on judgment summonses: L. Burly, widow. Guildford street, to pay T. Armstrong and Company, Ltd.. £46 13s 4d, in default 49 days’ imprisonment, warrant suspended whfle £1 a week is paid; C. McDonald, labourer, Huxley street, to pay Simpson Bros. (Chch.), Ltd., £27 9s (30 days or £1 a week); R. E. Mathie, painter. Harewood road, to pay Ivan Taylor £6 Ils 3d (eight days); V. Alleyne, married woman, Frederick street, to pay R. M. Naysmith. Ltd., £6 (eight days or 10s a week); F. Swaney, married woman, Worcester street, to pay F. V. England, Ltd.. 12s 7d (one day); Vera Alleyne, married woman. Frederick street to pay A. Cox and Son. £2 15s ’(four days or 5s a week). Claude Robert McQuoid, painter Acheson avenue, to pay the Commissioner of Inland Revenue £23 Ils 9d (26 days); O. E. Hurrell. widow, corner of Emmett street and Shirley road, to pay G. A. and D. W. Smith £ll 3s (13 days or 10s a week); T. C. Darling, labourer, Langdons road to pay the Papanui Garden Centre £5 Is 9d (six days); S. J. Logan, steel bender, Roche avenue, to pay Rental Services, Ltd., £2O 5s 9d (22 days or £1 a week); F. J. Menzies, workman, Ham road, to pay Urquharts Service Station. Ltd., £3O 17s lOd (33 days or £lO a month): J. Hamory, photographer, to pay W. H Green and Company. Ltd.. £l9 17s 9d (22 days or £1 a week).