MAGISTRATE’S COURT Traffic Officer Collided With Town Clerk

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30366, 15 February 1964, Page 20

MAGISTRATE’S COURT Traffic Officer Collided With Town Clerk

Whiiie escorting an ambulance to the Princess Margaret Hospital on November 20, a traffic officer approached the intersection of Armagh, Colombo, and Victoria streets on his motor-cycle, with the siren going, when the lights were on amber. He rode bn to the intersection at a speed of 35 miles an hour and collided with a car driven by the Town Clerk, Sergeant B. D. Read said in the Magistrate's Court yesterday. The traffic officer, John Ernest Matheiws, aged 27 (Mr A. Hearn), pleaded guilty to a charge of failing to comply with traffic lights. He was discharged without conviction. The Magistrate said that an officer had the right to go through traffic lights in the course of duty. The charge was a technical one. FINED £6 For driving without reasonable consideration, Desmond John VoMerman Was fined £2, and for failing to give way at a pedestrian crossing he was fin ed £4. CHARGES DISMISSED A charge against Quentin Taiporotu Tapsell of using a motor-vehicle carelessly was dismissed, as was a charge against Philip Gillespie of failing to give way. (Before Mr E. A. Lee, S.M.) STOLE HEAD-LIGHTS Gavin John Moffat, aged 18, an apprentice carpenter, pleaded guilty to a charge of theft of two sealed-beam head-lights valued at £5 from a car in Nelson on January 6 and not guilty to a charge of using indecent language in Worcester street on February 13. He was convicted on both charges and remanded on bail to February 20 for sentence. RECEIVING Graham lan Reid, aged 22, a workman, was fined £25 when he appeared for sentence on a charge of receiving stolen groceries valued at £l5 on January 19. The accused said he wished to stop adding to his record, and sought a further term on probation. OBSCENE LANGUAGE On a charge of using obscene language at New Brighton, within hearing of a public place, on February 13, Raymond William McNeish, aged 41, a workman, was fined £lO. He pleaded guilty. Mr G. T. Mahon, for the accused, said the offence arose from a domestic quarrel in which the accused lost his temper. He was in his own house at the time, but the language had been heard from the street. Graham James Judkins, aged 18, an apprentice plumber, was fined £lO on a charge of using obscene language in Manchester street on February 13. He pleaded guilty. REMANDED Three young men appeared on charges of being found unlawfully in the enclosed yard of the Central Police Station on February 13. They were John George Smith, aged 20 (Mr W. F. Brown), Kevin Anthony Smith, aged 23 (Mr L. G. Holder), and Trevor David Smith, aged 18. Each was remanded on bail to February 20. William John Ross, aged 17, and Norman Frank Peers, aged 18, were remanded to appear in Invercargill on February 19 on a joint charge of breaking and entering a coffee lounge in Invercargill on February 13. TRAFFIC CASES On traffic charges brought by the police offenders were dealt with as follows: Failing to stop after accident: Graham Gordon Wicks, £l5 and disqualified from driving for 18 months (careless use of motor-vehicle, £10; failing to ascertain if

any person was injured, convicted and discharged). Failing to give way: Ernest Cecil Achilles, £4; Nicholas Frederick Randall, £8; Jeanie Stirret Cook, £6; Frank William van Brucken, £8; Noel James Flewellyn, £6; Lloyd Phillip Gable, £8; Alick McMillan, £lO and licence endorsed for three years; Frances Peggy Wade, £8; Gustav Rudi Wahnig, £lO (careless use of motorvehicle, £5); Graham Robert McCosh, £5; William McKay Clements. £8; Kenneth Gordon Hutchison, £B. Failing ter give way when turning- John Honeyman Elliot, £B. ’. . . Failing to stop at stop sign: Mary Eileen Fogarty, £B. Failing to give way at giveway sign: Gary Edward Cooper, £8; Allan Barker, convicted and ordered to pay costs; Kevin Peter McCann, £B. Failing to stop at signal of constable: Patrick John O’Neil, £B. Aiding person to drive without licence: John Joseph Michael Worters, £3. No driving licence: John Edward David Bryant, £3; Kevin Peter McCann, £2; Lindsay James Cole, £l. No warrant of fitness: John Edward David Bryant, £2; Leonard Arthur Sandford, costs; Arthur William Sandford, convicted and discharged; William Leslie Crozier, £1; Desmond James Duggan, £2. Careless use of vehicle: Kenneth McKinnell Landrebe, £8; Brian David Troon, £l2; Patrick John O’Neil, £6; Tunui Waretini, £10; Lindsay James Coles, costs only. Careless driving: Neville George Munro Hartley, £8; Roderick Frank Aslnby, £7; Keith Raymond Gordon, £4.