Magistrate’s Court Month In Prison For Driving When Disqualified

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30235, 13 September 1963, Page 10

Magistrate’s Court Month In Prison For Driving When Disqualified

Istvan Bazi. aged 33, a fitter and turner, was sentenced to one month’s imprisonment sifter he pleaded guilty before Mr E. A. Lee, S.M.. in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday to a charge of driving while disqualified. .Another year was added to his term of prohibition from driving. Bozi was Seen at 1 a.m. yesterday standing beside a truck parked in the city, Senior-Sergeent G. M. Cleary said. He admitted driving it earlier. Boai said through an interpreter that he was not driving when apprehended. DISQUALIFIED DRIVER REMANDED Released from prison on Wednesday, Kevin Peter Sim, aged 22, was arrested early yesterday morning for driving while disqualified, the Court was told. After pleading guilty, Sim was remanded in custody to today for sentence. Sim was stopped at 3 a.m. yesterday after he drove through Cathedral square at a speed higher than average. Senior-Sergeant Cleary said. Sim told the police that he was going to buy cigarettes. Sim said he was handed his driving licence at Addington on Wednesday. It had no endorsement on it. “I don’t want to go back to prison seeing I only catne out yesterday?’ Sim said. Asking for leniency, Sim said he planned to go to his family in Wellington. There was a job waiting for him. FOUND ON SHIP Searching the Australia Star at Lyttelton on Wednesday, police found Hazel Rahere Evans, aged 22, in a cabin, Senior - Sergeant Cleary said. Evans admitted not working for the last ’few weeks, and at the time of her arrest she had 4s. She was separated from her husband, Senior-Sergeant Cleary said. Pleading guilty to a charge of being idle and disorderly in that she had insufficient means of support, Evans was remanded in custody to September 20 for sentence. ASSAULT After an argument at a party on Wednesday, Faith Maria Moirphu, aged 22. a factory hand, returned and punched the complainant on the nose, Senior-Sergeant Cleary said. . Morehu was convicted and fined £5 after she pleaded guilty to a charge of assault. She said she was sorry. REMANDED Charged with obtaining a watch a wall plaque, and money to a value of £lO, by false pretences involving a cheque on September 6, Raymond Harry Hills, aged 33, was remanded in custody to September 20. Charged with indecently assaulting a girl aged five years, six months, Kelvin John McKay was remanded for psychiatric observation. FAILED TO STOP After colliding with a car at the corner of Manchester and Montreal streets, Beatrix Ethel Denniston, aged 70, did not stop, the Court was told. Denniston (Mr P. T. Mahon) was fined £l5 on a charge of failing to stop and £8 on a charge of failing to give way, and was ordered to pay costs on a charge of failing to ascertain whether she had caused any injury. She pleaded guilty to all the charges. Detective - Sergeant P. J. O'Donovan said that Denniston told the police she panicked. She reported the collision to the police an hour and a half later. Mr Mahon said that Denniston was under tile impression that the collision was only a glancing blow. CARELESS DRIVING A fine of £7 10s was Imposed on Kevin Raymond McCaughan. a driver (Mr L. M. O’Reilly), when he was found guilty of careless driving. He pleaded not guilty. Mrs Edith Bray, aged 72. said she was on the pedestrian crossing near the Post Office in Cathedral square about 1.10 p.m, on June 1 when a car struck her. She suffered bruises and a fracture, and was taken to hospital. The defendant, In evidence, said he was 15 feet from the pedestrian crossing when he heard a thump. He did not think Mrs Bray was on the crossing. The evidence indicated that Mrs Bray was not on the crossing when she was hit, Mr O’Reilly said. There was no evidence of negligence. Mrs Brav had already crossed 40 feet of the 46 feet roadway. and the defendant failed

to see her. the Magistrate said. "Even if she was negligent —and I don't think she was—there was no excuse for the defendant to run her down," he said McCaughan’s failure to see Mrs Bray amounted to lack of care, the Magistrate said. DID NOT GIVE WAY Neville Charles Arps (Mr G. R. Lascelles) was fined £7 on a charge of failing to give way. He pleaded not guilty. The charge arose out of a collision between a car driven by Arps and a motor-cycle ridden by Peter John Crossen in Cathedral square on Juge 7. GAVE NO SIGNAL Afthr pleading guilty to a charge of failing to make a hand signal, Norman Francis Oberg (Mr A. K. Archer) was convicted and fined £3. The charge was amended from one of careless driving, to which Oberg pleaded not guilty. CHARGES DISMISSED Faced with the unusual situation of a bus broken down in his path, a motorist might have been too distracted to notice a cyclist passing it. the Magistrate said when dismissing a charge of careless driving in Opawa road on July 9. against Bernard Joseph Carr. Carr (Mr R. F. de Gold!) pleaded not guilty. On a charge of having no warrant of fitness, to which he pleaded guilty, Carr was fined £ 1. A charge of driving carelessly, against Ronald Hubert Boot (Mr M. D. Hodgkins), was dismissed. Boot pleaded not guilty. OTHER TRAFFIC CHARGES On other traffic charges brought by the police the following were convicted and fined Drove carelessly: Walter Bertham Brydon. £4; Peter Jphn Shannon, £10; Bruce Leonard Wright, £10; George Alexander Stewart, £3; Brian John Kilworth, £6; Murray James Searle, £10; Christopher Vai Sketteruys, £8; Victor Iti. £7 (no driving licence, £3); John Riki Whaitin, £8 (no w’arrant of fitness, costs only); John Joseph O'Halloran, £lO. and prohibited from driving for three months (no warrant of fitness, £3). Failed to give way: Ivan Albert Neil, £7; William CairnsBell, £7; James Joseph Cosgriff, £10; Douglas Beavan Smith, £lO, and prohibited from driving for one month; Wilfred Albert Weakley. £8; George Ronald Adamson, £5; Alan Charles Looms, £lO, and prohibited from driving for one month; Noel Richard Pragnall, £2; Stephan Hector Thomas, £8; Harvey Spence Thompson. £4; Aldwyn Parkes Smith, £4; Martin Alfred Harry, £3; Donald Mcßae MacArthur, £lO (no driving licence, £5); Maarten Floris Schaap, £3 (no driving licence, £2); Braddon Smellie, £10; Anthony Lourens Steenhart, £7. Failed to give way at pedestrian crossing: Lawrence John Hopkins, £B. Failed to notify change of ownership: John Andrew Leonard Muir. £l. No warrant of fitness: Joseph Langton Adams, £1; John Graham King. £3. Crossed level crossing at risk of collision: William Thomas Hill Chinn. £6. No driving licence: Charles Dallas Clough, £2; Frederick Charles Greenhalgh. £3 (parked in prohibited area, £3; no warrant of fitness, £3). (Before Mr A. P. Blair, S.M.) CHARGE DISMISSED Saying that he had considerable doubts about the matter, the Magistrate dismissed a charge against Graeme Bruce Gilkison, a* driver, of driving without reasonable consideration at Loburn on June 23. Gilkinson pleaded not guilty, and was represented by Mr B. A. Barrer. OTHER TRAFFIC CASES In other charges brought by the Transport Department, convictions were entered and fines were imposed as follows: Exceeded 30 miles an hour: Rewa Mary Straubel, £3; Otto Sell. £4; Hendrickus Marie Aorianus van Venroy, £3; Clifford Sedrick Allan Rule, £4; Harry Navua Apes. £3; Edith) Johnson Barnes. £3; Albert John Bates. £4 (no warrant of fitness. £1); James Malcolm Cross, £4; Melba Evans. £4; Mervyn Haymond Gorrie, £lO. and driver's licence cancelled for six months; Arthur Douglas Kitto, £4; Kenneth Leonard Lee-Richards, £3; Ross Blair McGregor, £10; Robert Sterling McLeod. £3; Diana McMillan. £4; Robert Hughes Montgomery. £4: Bruce Leslie Paterson. £4; Gerald Howard Scales. £4: James Buroie Taylor. £5; John Rodger Taylor, £3; Victor Albert Tuaine. £3; Gerald Richard Turner, £5 (no warrant of fitness. £1 10s): Dirk van Dooren, £4; Desmond John Vuillerman, £4 (no safety helmet. £2. no warrant of fitness, £1): Robert Francis Aitchison, £3; David George Barrell, £5: Owen Stanley Burgess, £5: Elizabeth Burns. £3; Barry Victor Cox, £3: Trevor John Crowe. £6; Bruce Frederick Francis Douglas, £4: Kevin Ford, £5; Owen Colin Gear. £4; Colin Malcolm Hardaker, £2 (driver’s licence not produced. £2); William Francis Herbert Harris, £3; Brian David Harrison. £10; Bevan Brian Johnston. £4; Ivan Raymond Jones. £5; Brian William Kilpatrick, convicted and discharged (drove without reasonable consideration, £lO and driver's licence cancelled for six months); Ronald King, £4; Thomas lan McGlinchy. £3: Robin Moffat. £5: Kevin James

Morris. £7; John Berry Morton. £3; Brian Halvey Noonan. £3 (failed to keep to the left. £3); Margaret Catherine Frampton. £3 Bernard Latham Rennell, £4; Thomas Charles Thin. £4; William van Halewyn. £2 (no safety helmet. £1 l»s); Victor Bernard Wilkinson. £3; Ronald Dudley Winter, costs (driving without due care and attention. £8); John Richard Amos Parrott. £6. Failed to stop at stop sign: Louis Keith Laugeson. £3. Thomas Theodore Price. £4; Peter Montgomery Paterson, £4; Norman Gibson. £3; Ivan Peter Harris £3: Barry Kevin Rea. £4; Steven James Sinclair. £3; Alister Charles Morland, £3; Gilbert Andrew Bradley. £3; Ravmond Burt. £5; James Edward Sinclair Balloch, £10; William Clarence Robertson, £5 hno driver's licence. £lO. Drove carelessly: Trevor Francis Findlay £10; Powhiri Love. £l2 and driver's licence concelled for six months; Robert Herbert Greening, £10; Allan Frederick McNichol. £8; John Ross Turner £6; Graham Bradshaw Houston £lO. and driver's licence cancelled for one month; Graham Gordon Wicks. £4. Failed to keep to left Ronald Ernest Edward Davis £8; Thomas Keiling Hickinbotham. £8; Douglas Watson. £4. Drove without reasonable consideration: Richard Victor Townsend, £lO and driver’s licence cancelled for one month. Permitted use of unlicensed vehicle: Thomas Francis McCabe. £1; David Alexander Titheridge. £3 Failed to give way: Ronald Ernest Lawson, £6; Winifred Evans Walker. £3 No rear red light on goodsservice vehicle: George Robert Eastwick. £1; Raymond Thomas Horgan, £2. Trailer not safely secured: Murray Johnson. £4; Hugh Robert Owen. £3. Proceeded from stop sign before way was clear: Desmond Charles Pryke, £6. Crossed against traffic lights: lan Richard Clarke, £6 (no warrant of fitness. £1 10s). Carried pillon passenger contrary to conditions of licence: Kerry Clifford Gibbons, £3. Insufficient lights: Janice Ann Poore, £3; Phil<> Stanley Williams, £4. Failed to stop for traffic officer on point duty: Dudley Gobbe, £3 Exceeded heavy-traffic licence: Maples Containers. Ltd . £2 Operated noisy motor-vehicle: James Douglas Wingham, £5. Exceeded axle weight: H. W. Smith. Ltd., £5. (Before Mr K. H. J. Headifen, S.M.) CARELESS DRIVING He did not regard the case as a hit-and-run one, but there was no explanation as to why the defendant did not return to the accident or report to the police, said the Magistrate when fining’ Laszlo Csuti, aged 32, a dye hand. £8 on a charge of careless driving. Csuti's driver s licence was suspended for three months. He was fined £5 for failing to ascertain whether anyone had been injured after an accident, and was ordered to pay costs on a charge of failing to report an accident. Csuti was ordered to pay witnesses' expenses of £6 Ills and costs of £3. A charge of failing to stop after an accident was dismissed. The defendant pleaded not guilty to all charges and was represented by Mr R. G. Blunt. The charges arose out of a collision between Csuti's car and one driven by Alexander Gorton at the corner of Moorhouse and Fitzgerald avenues about 11 10 p.m. on July 11. Two hours of the hearing was taken up by evidence and submissions on the admissibility of a statement made by Csuti on the ground that he could not read or write English. The statement was ruled inadmissible. but the Magistrate said there was no reflection on the constable who took the statement. He had acted in a proper manner and in good faith The Magistrate said he had given every consideration to the fact that the defendant was a Hungarian who had been in New Zealand for seven years. The defendant had some difficulty with the English language,’ but, said the Magistrate, he was not satisfied that the defendant had as much difficulty as he claimed. Csuti was ordered to pay an •interpreter's fee of £3 3s. FINED £lO The evidence for the prosecution clearly established that the defendant overtook a bus in the lace of oncoming traffic, said tlie Magistrate when fining Barry Don McNarn, a baker's labourer. £lO on a charge of careless driving. The defendant was ordered to pay witness's expenses of £4 and costs of £1 10s. McNarn, who was represented by Mr L. H. Moore, pleaded not guilty. The charge arose out of a collision between a car driven by McNarn and one driven by Christopher William Stanbury. in Wairakei road on July 5. about 6.45 p.m. The . accident took place on a dececeptive bend but that was all the more reason why care should have been taken, the Magistrate said. On his own admission the defendant had had four or five Boz beers. Any person who had had liquor and was then Involved in an accident placed himself In a precarious position. DROVE WITHOUT CARE Peter George Martin, aged 17, was fined £3 on a charge of driving without due care and attention at Mead on April 28. He .was ordered to pay witnesses' expenses of £4 and costs of £1 10s. Martin pleaded not guilty, and

was represented by Mr L. H. Moore. Evidence was given that a car driven by Martin collided with the back of one driven by Raymond Leslie Mayo just off the northern end of the Rakaia river bridge about 1 a.m It was a foggy night, but evidence had been given that some of the lights were visible, the Magistrate said. He did not regard it as a serious case but the defendant’s vehicle left skid marks of 44 yards, and that indicated a lack of care in the conditions.