Magistrate's Court Bread Roundsman Stole £58 From Employer

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30277, 1 November 1963, Page 18

Magistrate's Court Bread Roundsman Stole £58 From Employer

A former bread roundsman, Charles Rowland Austin, pleaded guilty in the, Magistrate’s Court yesterday to then by failing to account for £5B 12s of his arm’s money. He was convicted by Mr K. A Lee, S.M., and remanded on bail to November 8 for sentence.

Senior - Sergeant G. M. Cleary said Austin received the money from shopkeepers for bread and failed to pass it on to his employer, Stacey and Hawker, Ltd.

Austin, married with four young childrfen, was now a truck driver, he said. DESERTED SHIP

A man, described by counsel as holding a responsible position in the city, pleaded guilty to a change of deserting his ship in New Zealand 14 years ago. The man (Mr J. G. Leggat) was granted suppression of his name during an adjournment of the case until today. Mr P. R. Mulligan, who appeared for a ship’s agent, said the man deserted in New Zealand two months after signing on the Rangitoto in England,, in 1949. He asked for a conviction, deportation, and costs. Mr Leggat said it was astonishing that tiie shipping company was asking for a conviction and deportation for a desertion that occurred 14 years ago.

“This man is 35 years of age and the Court is examining conduct that occurred when he was just 22,” he said.

Mr Leggat said the man had worked in one job except for one break. Six months ago he applied for a transfer to a responsible position and got it.

The man married three days after the offence, Mr Leggat said. There was no pressure to get married, and the marriage had turned out to be singularly successful. Since living here he had never been in trouble. He was now the father of two young children. In his new position the man had discharged his duties well, but his offence of 14 years ago had weighed heavily upon him. “When asked to go to the police station yesterday he went with feelings of relief,” Mr Leggat said. “This matter is not quite as simple as it might appear at first,” the Magistrate said adjourning the case for consideration.

THREE MONTHS’ GAOL Found by a constable in Armagh street at 2.25 a.m. on October 31, Thomas Shearer had a halfpenny in his possession, Senior-Sergeant G. M. Cleary said. Pleading guilty, Shearer was sent to gaol for three months on a charge of being a rogue and a vagabond. Shearer also pleaded guilty to a charge of being idle and disorderly in that he had insufficient means of support on October 19. On that charge he was convicted and discharged. FINED £4O A fine of £4O and prohibition from driving for another year was imposed on Peter John Winston Salt, aged 20, a butcher, who pleaded guilty to a charge of driving while disqualified. Sergeant Read said Salt was stopped while driving on Papanui road on September 29. Salt said he was trying to clear a petrol block in the car, and had driven only 100 yards when stopped. LICENCE CANCELLED Prohibition from driving for six months and a £l2 fine were imposed on Marton Sandor Perger, aged 31, a textile worker, who pleaded guilty to a charge of careless driving on Ferry road on August 25. Sergeant Read said Perger’s car hit a parked car, swerved across the road where it hit another, mounted the footpath, then regained the road. HIT GATE-POST A legless driver who crashed into a gate-post at Fendalton road on August 22 was a borderline case of intoxication, Sergeant Read said. The driver, Rex John Fattorini, aged 22, a beneficiary, pleaded guilty to a charge of carelessly driving his handcontrolled car. He was fined £7. Fattorini said he was forced to swerve to avoid another car. ADJOURNED A plea of guilty was entered by Davies bennis Scott who appeared on a charge of breach of probation by failing to notify his change of address. The charge was adjourned to November 29. DISMISSED A charge of driving without due care and attention against Robert James Henderson (Mr H. J. Quigley) was dismissed. Henderson pleaded not guilty. The charge arose out of a collision between two trucks near Southbridge on April 30. CONVICTED Glen Thomas Perkasky was convicted and discharged on a charge of careless driving and a charge of having no driving licence. He pleaded not guilty to both charges. OTHER TRAFFIC CHARGES On other traffic charges brought by police the following were dealt with:— Careless driving: William Sheridan Scanned. £8: Peter Gillum. £8 (failed to give name and address. £3): Desmond Patterson. £5; Albert Eduard Willyams, £5: Edwin Christopher Kay, £lO (prohibited from driving for three months); John Francis Parkin. £5. Failed to give way: Alan Phillip Paton. £8; Gilbert Andrew Bradley. £6; Peter Stuart Mason, £lO (prohibited from driving for three months except work, no warrant of fitness. £2): Boy William Clemence. £8; Bobin Murray Gerrard. £8; Henry John Keye, £10; Raymond William George Muldoon. £10: • Peter Montgomery Patterson. £10; Arthur Matthew Southern, £10; David Henry Chambers, £4: Neville James Barton. £lO (prohibited from driving for 12 months). Faijinc to reoort damage within 48 hours: Ronald Robert Wright, £lO.

Opened car door in a manner likely to cause injury: Murray Scott Annand. £4. No warrant of fitness: Welwyn Peter Scowan. £1; Frank Wilde, £l. Failed to kept left: Robert Kerr. £5. No driving licence: Violet Florence Pearl Protheroe. £5. (Before Mr E S J. Crutchley. S.M.) FINED £5 Appearing on a charge of failing to report damage after an accident within 48 hours, on June 21, David Edwin Annan, a freezing worker, pleaded not guilty. Annan (Mr M J. Glue) was convicted and fined £5. TRANSPORT DEPARTMENT CHARGES On charges brought by the Transport Department the following fines were imposed with costs of £1 10s on each charge. Exceeded 30 miles an hour: Desmond Frank T. Thompson. £3: Brian Edgar Mattsen, £3; Robert John Baillie. £5; Roderick Stuart Ferguson, £4; Annie Elizabeth Houlsham, £1 10s; James Ronald Nelson, £4; Hugh Anthony Fitzsimmons. £4; Sehvyn Ross Hall. £4; Roland Henry Hammond, £2; Jan Andrew Hart. £5; John Jarman, £4; Ronald George Lee, £4; Jean Findlay Sim, £3; Jack Bertram Yates. £4: William Edward Palmer, £3 (insufficient lights, £3). No light on bicycle: Kevin John Higgins, £2. No warrant of fitness: Lawrence Thaddeuis McGinn. £3: William David Crackel, £2 (exceeding 30 miles an hour. £2): William Joseph Fuller, £1: lan James McArthur. £1; David Steadman Neal. £2 (no driving licence. £5). Failed to stop at a compulsory stop sign: Kevin Douglas Harman, £3; John Henry Walter. £1 10s. Had an Insecure trailer: George Caras. £4. Crossed against traffic lights: Ronald James Steele. £8: Richard Sulima Rogaczenskl, £4. No driving licence: Percy Clarence Dodge, £3. No front number plate: David Arthur R. Mcßeath. £l. Excessive rear overhang: Midland Builders. Ltd.. £2. No lights on a stationary vehicle: Ralph Alexander Palmer. £5. Failed to yield right of way: Charles Peter Murray. £1 10s. Careless use of a motor vehicle: William Southward, costs only. (Before Mr K. H. J. Headifen. S.M.) FINED £5 "All this could have been avoided U the boy had been taken to his home and he or his parents been given the name and address erf the driver of the car,” said the Magistrate when he fined Helen Madeline Woodham, aged 83, a spinster, £5 on a charge of falling to report damage and give her name and address to the owner of a vehicle damaged in an accident, or to the police. She was ordered to pay witness expenses of £4. The defendant had shown some disregard for her duties, the Magistrate said. The boy was only eight years old and lived a short distance from where the accident occurred. He took a serious view of this failure. Charges of driving without reasonable consideration for other road users and of failing to ascertain if anyone was Iniured were dismissed. Wood--lam pleaded not guilty to all three charges and was represented by Mr P. G. S. Penjington. The charges arose out of a collision between a car driven by Woodham and a cycle ridden by Timothy John Fawson, a schoolboy, on the Main North road, near Daniels road, about 8.45 a.m. on August 15. The boy suffered a broken arm. The accident occurred on a section of road which had roadworks on either side. The Magistrate said he accepted the evidence that the defendant drove slowly and carefully into the area. She considered she had ample room to pass the cyclist. He was satisfied that the boy was in the process of turning when he ran into the side of the car. The defendant had exercised proper care and used reasonable consideration and he was satisfied that the collision was caused by the boy's sudden and unexpected move to the right, said the Magistrate, dismissing the charge of driving without reasonable care. The defendant had stopped as soon as practicable after the accident and a responsible passenger. Ernest Suckling, a dental surgeon, had said he would take care of the situation. He went back and was told that the boy was all right and he had left him in the care of others

present. It waa not known at that stage that be had suffered a broken arm, the Magistrate said when dismissing the charge of falling to ascertain if anyone had been injured. Woodham gave evidence that she did not know she was required to report the accident until she received a letter and a clipping from '"rhe Press of an article stating that the police required witnesses, at her home in Motueka.

WOMAN INJURED On a charge of carelessly driving a motor-vehicle in Selwyn street so as to cause bodily injury to Harriett Jane Cootelto, aged 73. on June 1. Michael Anthony Bradley, aged 22. a civil servant, was fined £lO. He was ordered to pay witness expenses of £8 and. his driver’s licence was cancelled for one month. Bradley, who pleaded not guilty, was represented by Mr Penlington. _ Senior-Sergeant G. M. Cleary said about 5.8 p.m. the defendant was driving north-west along Selwyn street about 30 miles an hour. Near Reduth avenue he collided with a cycle ridden bv Mrs Costello as ahe was making a right turn. It was alleged that Bradley was travelling too fast in the circumstances and that he failed to keep a proper lookout as he did not see the cyclist until it was too late •rtte Magistrate said the defendant had given evidence that the cyclist was only a couple of feet from in front of his car when he first saw her. If he had been keeping a proper lookout he would have seen her before that.