MAGISTRATE’S COURT Motor-Cyclist Fined £l5 For Dangerous Driving

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30405, 2 April 1964, Page 9

MAGISTRATE’S COURT Motor-Cyclist Fined £l5 For Dangerous Driving

While being chased at high spieed by a patrol car a motorcyclist went over the raised railway crossing in Wroxton terrace at 45 to 50 miles an hour. The machine left the ground, and Traffic Officer A. Nt Warren told Mr E. S. J. Cirutchley, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday that he expected he would have to pick up the pieces. Robert Allan Strachan, a r ailways traffic assistant, was fined £l5 on a charge of driving at a speed which might have been dangerous, and his . diriver’s licence was cancelled for two years. He was fined £1 10s for exceeding 30 miles an hour without a safejty helmet and £1 10s for not displaying L plates. Strachan did not appear. At 7.40 p.m. on Sunday, December 15, he saw a motorcyclist pass a car in Fendalton road at about 40 miles an hour, Traffic Officer Warren said. He gave chase, and the :rider of the motor-cycle, (Strachan, looked back and sow him.

Strachan turned left into Stratford street and accelerated to an estimated speed of !55 miles an hour. After a Hight turn into Wroxton terUace the motor-cyclist again 'increased speed. The chase Continued along Poynder avenue Wairarapa terrace, Strowan road, Heaton street, /illister avenue, and Leinster road.

Just short of Papanui road Strachan pulled the motorcjacle into the side of the r<»ad, said Traffic Officer Warren. Strachan admitted he bad “given it a go to get away” and said he had been very stupid. SEAMAN ARRESTED Appearing on a warrant issued for his arrest when he ftdled to comply with terms of his bail, Thomas Craig Ciross, a seaman (Mr S. R.

Dacre), was remanded in custody to April 6 . to enable Mr Dacre to prepare legal submissions on a section of the Shipping and Seamen Act. Appearing for the shipping company, Mr P. R. R. Mulligan said Cross had been convicted in the Dunedin Magistrate’s Court on a charge of ship desertion and remanded

on bail pending deportation. Cross had absconded, and he failed to comply with the terms of his bail. TRAFFIC CHARGES On traffic charges brought by the Transport Department fines were imposed as follows: Exceeding 30 miles an hour: Robert John Noster, two charges, £6 and £7 10s; Raymond Vivian Dann, £5; Herbert Harold Wilson, £5 (no safety helmet, £2); Richard Ralph Beauchamp, £3; David John Griffiths, £5; James Kelly, £5; Joanna Mildred Moat, £3; Alice Louisa Sheppard, £4. Failing to stop at sign: Donald Bruce Lawson, £4; John James O’Sullivan, £4; Charles Henry Arps, £3; Arthur Edward Coombes, £3; Alan Reginald Parsons, £3; William lan Taylor, £3; Doreen May Workman. £3; Paul Blokker, £3 (no warrant of fitness, £2); Edward Saal, £4; Richard George Ashton, £3; Colin William Bowls, £3; Judith Mulzard, £3.

No warrant of fitness: lan James Alexander, £2 (registration plate not affixed, £3); Brian Stanley Allan, £3; Ivan John Emslie, £2; Christopher Harley, £1 10s; Ivan Russell Harris, £5; lan McLean, two charges, £3 on each; Emil Frederick Rosel, £3; David Colin Stamlef, £3; Dirk Steeman, £5 (failed to stop at stop sign, £3); Michael Andrew Weir, £2; Frank William Booth, £5. Passing in area of longitudinal lines: James Edward Mosely, £8; John Cecil Davis, £8 and driver’s licence cancelled for three months; Agatha Power Culloty, £B. Careless driving: William James Mors, £8 and driver's licence cancelled for three months.

Insufficient lights: lan James Richan, £4.

Failing to stop at lights: Warren Wayne Thompson, £«; Sydney Ronald Hore, £5; lan Charles Walker, £6; Ross Altchison, £6.

Using unlicensed vehicle: Matthew Clelland, £lO and driver’s licence cancelled tor three months (no warrant of fitness, £2). Using defective vehicle: Brian Nigel Wayne Hooper, £7. No driver’s licence: Kenneth Robert Kelly, £4; June Esme McAlpine, £3 (no warrant of fitness, £1); Lindsay Randall, £3; Maynell Alexander Robertson, £lO (no warrant of fitness. £1). Unlicensed motor-vehicle: John Arthur Gascoyne, £5 (no warrant of fitness £l, exceeding 40 miles an hour with trailer, £5); Peter Robert Bartlett, -£5 (no warrant of fitness, £2); Orton Trevor Bailey, £1 10s. Exceeding 30 miles an hour when not wearing safety helmet: James Greer Dickson, £3; Bob Gerrets, £3; Hilton Mako, £3 (exceeding 40 miles an hour with pillion pasenger £5, carried pillion passenger contrary to licence, £2). Exceeding heavy traffic licence: E. W. Cochrane and Son, Ltd., £5; Durhams Transport, Ltd., £3 (exceeded axle weight, £3).

Exceeding axle weight: Peter Partridge, £7; Vibrapac Blocks, Ltd., £7. Overtaking car stopped at pedestrian crossing: Quenton Zadok Smith, £7 and licence cancelled for three months. Obscured licence label: Graeme Hastings Bridge, 10s. Exceeding 55 miles an hour: John Killian, £7. (Before Messrs J. T. Bisman and E. W. Tippins, Justices of the Peace) REMANDED Leslie John Blake, aged 21, a freezing worker, was remanded on bail to April 6 on a charge of stealing a radio worth £3O on March 21. Allan Johnston, aged 2S, a mechanic, was remanded in custody to April 8 on a charge of stealing tools, tyres, and electrical equipment worth £5O at Kihikihi on March 29 Sergeant B. D. Read said there were other charges pending. Barry Bonald McAlister, aged 21, was remanded on ball to April I on a charge of false pretences to the value of £lO on March 12.