Magistrate’s Court Disqualified Driver Fined £40

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30269, 23 October 1963, Page 8

Magistrate’s Court Disqualified Driver Fined £40

If tlhe accused drove again while disqualified, he would go to prison, Mr E. A. Lee, S.M., said in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday to Kevin Aiborn Setter, aged 18. Setter, who pleaded guilty to a charge of driving while disqualified, was fined £4O. and his term of prohibition from driving was extended for a year.

Traffic Officer J. McLauchlan said that he stopped a car driven by Setter in Hereford street on October 12. Setter frankly admitted that he wa« prohibited from driving. "It is only your age that saved you from going to prison,” the Magistrate said to Setter.

For aiding and abetting Setter by lending him the car, John Johannes Doihmen. aged 18. was fined £lO. He pleaded guilty. RISKED COLLISION

Seconds before a train arrived. a power-cyclist crossed the Wilsons road level crossing. driving around a lowered barrier arm and ignoring bells and lights, Traffic Officer L. H. Wilkinson said, when the power-cyclist, David Tomlin, pleaded guilty to a charge of passing over the level crossing at the risk of a collision. He was fined £5.

The charge was reduced from one of reckless riding, to which he p’leaded not guilty. On a charge of failing to produce a driving licence, Tomilin was fined £2. SUSPENDED SENTENCE

Thomas Shearer, aged 41, who appeared tor sentence on a charge of being idle and disorderly in that he had insufficient means of support, was ordered to come up for sentence if called on within six months. Shearer said he would get a job, but he would not guarantee staying in it. “If you don’t get a job and stay in it, I’ll send you to a place where you’ll stay,” the Magistrate said.

TRAFFIC CHARGES On traffic charges brought by the traffic department of the Christchurch City Council, the following were fined: Exceeded 30 miles an hour: John Pinter, £3; William Edward Wilkins, £3; Stanley William Allender, £4; Kevin Frederick Bell. £4; Edwin Lynn Boon, £5; Neil Chessor, £4; Douglas Waiter Cotton, £3; Tasman Frederick Dally, £3; David George Dailey, £3; Bernard Davis, £3; Colin Bernard Drummond, £3; David Dunbar, £3: John Lindsay Fairweather, £5; Alan Lloyd Howarth, £4; Colin David Ketch, £3; Peter George Mocketrt. £3; Norman Henry Parry, £3; Richard William Pearce. £4; Roy Henry Purdue, £3; Russell Ramsden, £4; William David Skelton. £3; Lyndsay Anthony Taylor. £3; Anthony Brent Thomas, £4; lan Trevor Thompson, £ 4; Robert Thompson, £4; Dorothy Mar. garet Tocker, £3; Lloyd George Todd. £4; Kenneth James Tweedie, £4; Bruce Gordon Waldron, £4; James John Wilkes, £3; Kevin Patrick Wilson, £4; George WilSiam Alexander, £3; Graeme Sidney Atkinson, £5 (exceeded 40 miles an hour with pillion passenger, £3); Elizabeth Anne Burt, convicted and discharged; Anthony Henry Tunner, £5; Robert Walker. £4.

Failed to give way: Lindsay Thomas Armstrong, £5; Leonard Desmond Chisholm, £8: Eric George Edy, £B. Failed to stop at compulsory stop: Kevin Gerald Carroll. £3; Joseph William McCluskey. £3 (no driving licence, £3); Kenneth Albert Maynard, £2: Ralph John Stanaway, £3; Martin van der Jagt. £1; Arthur Lawrence Wright. £3. Drove with frosted windscreen: David Frederick Clarke, £5. Allowed another to drive hired car: Sidney Julian Clarke, £3. Drove too close to another car: Michael Charles Cottis. £5.

Carried pillion passenger when restricted: Peter Charles Abrams, £3; Michael Edward Millard. £3; William Joseph Sugrue, £3. Failed to display certificate at fitness: H. P. Holt, Ltd., £2. No warrant of fitness: Owen Roy McHerron, £3; John Taylor. £1 (no licence label displayed, £3). Failed to carry heavy-traf-fic licence: Denis Aubrey Newell. £3 (drove vehicle not specifieo on licence, £3); United Empire Box Company, Ltd., £3. Failed to supply infcmM-

tion; Barbara Merle Davies. £3. No lights: Arthur Thomas Tait, £4. Parking offences: Doreen Esther Beer, £3; Kendrick Baynon, £5; Keith Butler, £1; Ross Robin Butler, £3; Donald George Clarkson, £3; Donald Edwin Climii, £2; Douglas Bums Crornb, £3; Leo George Devine. £5: Patrick Gerard Egden, £2; Graeme James Ellis, costs only; Lawrence Ewing, £1 (no warrant of fitness, £1); Denise George Flint. £3: Alan Douglas Froom, £3; Lawrence Eustace Graham, £1; Murray Frederick Hartman Ctwo charges), £6 and £6; Douglas Heese, £3; John Edward Hurreli, £3; Colin Stuart Martin, £4; Eric Roy Plunkett, £3; Donald Stuart Richardson, £3; James Scott, £3; Patrick Bruce Stenhouse, £1; Eric John Tate, £4: Philippa Ruth Vincent, £1; Miles Frederick Warren, £2; John Vincent Clifford, £3.

(Before Mr A. P. Blair, S.M.) FINED £l7

Arthur John Henry, a process worker (Mr B. D. Field), was fined £8 on a charge of failing to stop at a traffic officer’s request in Linwood avenue at 12.40 a.m. on August 4. He pleaded not guilty. He admitted charges of exceeding 30 miles an hour and failing to obey traffic lights, and was fined £4 on the first charge and £5 on the second. CHARGE REDUCED

A charge against Neville Gordon Harlick, a student (Mr A. F. Wilding), of driving at a speed which might have been dangerous in Worcester street on July 26 was reduced by the Magistrate to one of careless driving. Harlick was fined £lO on the amended charge, and his driving licence was suspended for three months. He pleaded not guilty to the original charge. DROVE CARELESSLY

While driving along Manchester street, Michael Reynolds, a military trainee, swerved to miss a pedestrian and then turned sharply into High street travelling at 35 miles an hour, Traffic Officer B. Naiisbitt said. Reynolds stopped when he crashed into the back of a car at the High street and Hereford street intersection.

Reynolds (Mr N. W. McGillivray), appearing on a charge of careless driving, pleaded not guilty. He was convicted and fined £lO.

Reynolds said he did not swerve to miss the pedestrian because the pedestrian was not in a dangerous position. He admitted travelling 35 miles an hour. He said he was surprised when a traffic officer motioned him to stop. Because his attention was diverted, he crashed into the stationary car. (Before Mr K. H. J. Headifen, S.M.)

FINED £2 On a charge of failing to give way to the right, Gwendoline Sibylla Fuller was fined £2. She pleaded not guilty, and was represented by Mr W. A. Wilson. She was originally charged with careless driving, to which she also pleaded not guilty. The charge was reduced by the Magistrate. The charge arose out of a minor collision between two cars at the corner of Huxley and Colombo streets about 5.10 p.m. on July 15. CIVIL CASES JUDGMENT SUMMONSES The following orders were made on judgment summonses: Evelyn Lydia Mildred Apes, married woman. Hindess street, to pay D H. Stringer £59 3s lOd. in default one month's imprisonment, warrant suspended while £1 a week is paid: Harry Nauva Apes, caterer, Hindess street, to pay L. J. Le Breton £l9 18s (21 days or £2 a week); E. L. M. Apes to pay L. J Le Breton £l9 18s (21 days or 10s a week); R. J. Beran, labourer, Gloucester street, to pay Stan Wheatley, Ltd.. £22 7s 6d (24 days or £1 a week); R. Hines, timber worker, Everest street, to pay Papanui Timber Company, Ltd.. £lB 3s 8d (21 days or £1 a week). G. Tuaine. electrician, Briggs road. to pay W. J. Scotts Motors, Ltd.. £35 17s 7d (38 days or £3 a week); M. Kitto, railway employee, Kirwee. to pay R. W. Dixon £7 18s 7d days or £2 a week); Thelma E. Sykes, married woman, Wilton crescent, to pay Falconers Shoe Store £7 Ils 7d (eight days or £1 a week); Phillip J. Linton, labourer, Akaroa street, to pay Hayes Tyres, Ikd., £7 14s days or £1 a week); Elizabeth Kathleen Scobie, married woman, Christian street to pay Sedley Wells. Ltd., £5 16s (seven days or £1 a week). John William Francis Bowden, foreman, Kensm-gton avenue to pay Sedley Wells, Ltd.. £8 17s mine days or £1 a week); Doreen McDonald married woman.

Orton place to pay R. H G Evane £1 Ifo lid (two days or

£1 10s a week): F. J. McClure, driver, care of Maddens and Richards, Ltd., to pay Pearce's Foodmarket. Ltd.. £23 (25 days or £1 10s a week); D. M. Chapman, married wontan, Fenchuroh street, to pay Household Drapery, Ltd., £2l 12s 7d '(2l days or £1 a week). E. L. Apes, Hihdess street, to pay Moody’s Hire Service Ltd.. £5 10s (seven days or 5s a week); G. O. Seaward, labourer, Locksley avenue, to pay J. N. Cuppies £3 10s Id (four days): G. Harvey, worker. Marine parade, to pay Cliristchurch Transport Board £l5 10s (17 days or £2 a week); J. S. Hampton. Tabart street, to pay Herbert Ernest Raymond Righton £5l 7s lid (55 days or £2 a week): L. Poulson, clerk. Marlow road, to pay E. C. Briden £2 3s 6d (three days). Clarence Oswald Ryder, bus driver. Osborne street, to pay McAlpine Refrigeration (S.L), Ltd., £1 15s (two days): Alan Vivian Boat, labourer, Prestons

road, to pay Merlin Motors, Ltd.. £lO4 IBs 2d (two months or £2 a week); J. W. Blackwood. labourer, Avonslde drive, to pay T. M. McCarthy £8 (nine days or £2 a week); W. Gwatkin. labourer. Dunbars road, to pay Grey Electric Power Board £5 10s (seven days or £1 10s a week).

George White, labourer. Salisbury' street, to pay William A. McDonald £27 8s (31 days or £2 10s a week): Michael William Carrol, steward. Rose street, to pay A. D. Jensen £lB 18s (21 days or £2 a week): C. M. Hardaker. labourer. Shakespeare road, to pay M. F. C. (Blenheim) Ltd.. £45 7s 2d (4S days or £1 10s a week).