MAGISTRATE’S COURT Disqualified Driver Fined £20 And Cancellation Extended

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30481, 1 July 1964, Page 11

MAGISTRATE’S COURT Disqualified Driver Fined £20 And Cancellation Extended

On a charge of driving while disqualified on June 13, William Edgar Warren was fined £2O, and the period of his disqualification was extended for one year as from October 24, when he appeared before Mr K. . H. J. Headifen, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday. Warren pleaded guilty, and was represented by Mr M. J. Glue.

Traffic Sergeant J. McMorran said that a traffic officer recognised a car being driven in Fitzgerald avenue at 7.45 a.m. as one said to have been driven by a disqualified driver on previous occasions. The car was followed to the Gas Company's yard, and Warren, the driver, at first denied he was a disqualified driver. Warren later admitted the offence, and said'that his wife usually drove him, but she was sick on the way and he took over, as he had to be at work on time. Mr Glue said that Warren lost his licence for driving under the influence of drink or drugs two years and eight months ago. He worked long hours as an enginedriver at the gasworks, and his wife normally drove him because there was no public transport early in the morning. His wife was pregnant and was overcome by nausea on the morning in question. There was no concrete evidence that Warren had driven on previous occasions. fined no

Checked travelling In Pages road at speeds of up to 1 SO miles an hour across four T Intersections and one full intersection at 11.20 p.m. on April IS. Anthony Ernest Armitage, aged 17, was stopped after passing three cars, and bis vehicle was found to be In a poor state of repair, said Traffic Sergeant McMorran.

Armitage (Mr L. M. O’Reilly), pleaded guilty to a charge -of driving at a speed which might have been dangerous. He was fined £lO. and his driver’s licence was cancelled for one year. He was permitted to drive during his employment. Mr O’Reilly said that Armitage was employed in his father's service station and without a licence he could be of no use on the same job. The car had required only a few minor adjustments to bring it to warrant-ot-fltness standard. FINED £8 Charged with driving at a • need that might have been dangerous on May 20, Vivian Arthur Davis was convicted and fined £B, and dlsqualifled from holding a drivers’ licence for one year. He pleaded guilty. Traffic Sergeant McMorran said Davis drove at 50 miles an hour in Rossall street when there were road works on the street. He bad swerved to the wrong side of the road to turn into Rhodes street and then speeded along Carlton Mill road. The offence occurred at night in heavy rain, and with clouds of leaves blown by a strong wind. FINED £l5

John MacKinnon Blake, a tile manufacturer (Mr -A. R. Cottrell), was fined £l5 ' and his driver’s licence was cancelled for one year from July 7 when he was convicted on a charge of driving at a speed -which might have been dangerous on April .29. Blake pleaded not guilty. Traffic Officer L. Wilkinson, said that he checked Blake travelling through Redcliffs at

53 miles an hour and his speed did not slacken at the intersection of Beachfield road. Blake told him bis speedometer had stuek at 35 miles an hour. Blake said that his accelerator linkage jammed, and when be tried to pull the pedal baek with his - foot the pedal pulled off tire linkage. The Magistrate said that if the charge depended only on speeding across the intersection he would have taken a different view of the situation, but be was satisfied Blake had been ebecked travelling for at least half a mile at 55 miles an hour. ..

DROVE CARELESSLY On a charge of driving carelessly at the intersection of Cashel street. Durham street, and Oxford terrace, on April 28, Arthur O'Brien was convicted and fined £B. Traffic Officer J.' Drain ' said that Davis drove a rental car the windows of which were fogged over. He pulled to the left in froht of another car after the lights had changed in • his favour, and pearly capsed a collision. FAILED TO GIVE WAV

John Albert Cottle Palliser was fined £4 on a charge of failing to give way to the right. Palliser, who pleaded not e, was Involved tn a colwith another vehicle at the intersection of Marshland road and. Shirley road.

DANGEROUS CONDITION A car which - had a loose steering box, loose . kingpins and bearings, and lose U-bolta on the front springs, took some 'distance to stop when the driver was signalled to do so by a traffic officer in Moorhouse avenue, said Traffic Sergeant McMorran.Jakobus de Mol pleaded guilty by letter to a charge of using a vehicle which was in a dangerous condition. He was fined £lO.

THEFT OF SUITCASE Attic Reijay Shinkies, aged 22, a workman, pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing a suitcase and contents, valued at £3B, the property of John William Sydney .Smith, on May 28. He was - convicted and remanded on ball until July 3 for sentence. Senior-Sergeant G. M. Cleary said that Smith left the suitcase with the left-luggage department at the Christchurch Railway Station. The ticket was lost or stolen, and Smith later saw Shinkies wearing some of his clothes. Shinkies had said that Smith owed him board and he took the suitcase in compensation. TRAFFIC CASES In traffic cases brought by the City Council’s traffic department, convictions were entered and fines imposed as follows: — Exceeding 30 miles an hour: David Robert Symes, £6; Donald Hlekman, £4; Cornells Kessels, £5: Geoffrey Dudley Norris, £3; Gordon Jams Abercomble, £4; William Charles Montague Adams, £4: Raymond Lloyd An--derson, £4: Thomas Armstrong, £4: David Colin Ayres, £5; James Ross Bevin, £3; Noel Kilford Brown, £4; Robert Clark Chaimers, £4: William Maurice Cook, £3; Janice Margaret Crombie, £4; Paul Francis Delanty, £4; Trevor Cyril Downes. £4: Arthur Henry Fletcher, £4; Colin Arthur Ford, £4; Hector William Fraser, £3: Roderick Bryan Gardiner, £3; William Joseph Gillespie, £3; Konrad Grelter, £4; Karl Clem Derrett, £2 (no .safety helmet, £2): Robert James Harris, £4; Myrtle Florence Marion Huggins, £4; Trevor James Humphries, £4; Arthur Finch Kllllck, £4; Peter Henry Le Cheminant. £4; Charles James Livingstone, £4; John Douglas McLaughlin, £4; John Owen Joseph May, 14: David Lawson Miller, £4;. George Bennett Mills, £4; Bryan Mogridge, £4; Donald Ross Montgomery, £4; William David Moore, £4; Albert Keith Nanklvell, £4; Kevin Cecil Nicboll, £4; Percy George O'Leary, £3; lan Harold Patti-

son, £5: Margaret Perrott. £3; Allan Thomas Shears, £4; Alleen Pearl Spinks, £4; Trevor Leonard Starr, £5; Kornells Van Klink. £5; Bruce Gordon Waldron, £5. Parking offences: Murray Frederick Hartman, £3: Brian Thomas Horton, £2; Ralph Van Ysselsteyn, £2 (failing to supply information, two charges, £4 on each).

Failing to stop at atop light: Keith Nelson Lane, £4; Peter Matsts, £4; Robert William Morris, £4.

Exceeding 20 miles an hour: Bernard Andrew Calder, £3; Gary Arnold Thompson, £3. Falling to stop at school patrol sign: Edward Michael Stanton, £7.

Failing to keep to left: Douglas Percy Charles Phillips, £5 and disqualified from driving for three months. No warrant of fitness: William Joseph Allison, £3: Julian Anthony Barrett, £3: Ernest-Al-fred Collett, £2 (no driving licence, £2). Failing to give way to right: Colin Allan Stace, £5 (no warrant of fitness, £1). No heavy-traffic licence: James William Donaldson, £5. Insufficient lights: Bex Grant Walker, £5.

Unregistered vehicle: Leo Bernard Moonay, £4. Failing to notify change of ownership: Ronald Herbert Griebel;- £3.

Plates wrongly affixed: Richard Francis Nurse, £2. No safety chain: Robert Francis Delaney, £l. (Before Mr E. S. J. Crutchley, S.M.) CHARGE DISMISSED A charge against Michael David Malin (Mr A. Grant), of reckless driving in Colombo and Milton streets on April 14 was dismissed. Malin pleaded not guilty. Traffic Officer J. E. Drain said that at 8.29 p.m. he saw Malin travelling, at high speed on a motor-cycle in Colombo street. He followed Malin, who turned into Milton street and went around an S bend at 39 miles an hour.

Malin crossed Strickland street, which was controlled by stop signs, at 35 miles an hour, accelerated to 44 miles an hour, and then slowed to 12 miles an hour at the compulsory stop sign in Milton street at the. intersection of Selwyn street. Neither Malin nor his woman plllon passenger wore safety helmets.

The witness said that Malin was still operating on a learner’s licence, failed to stop at a sign and exceeded 49 miles an hour with L plates, and neither he nor his passenger wore safety helmets. It had been decided to. bring a charge of feckless driving instead of several individual charges. Mr Grant said it could not be denied that a number of offences had been committed, but not one of them could be called reckless. Minor charges could not be added together to make one major one..

“This charge does not amount to reckless driving. The prosecution ..has chosen to bring this grave charge, and there is simply not the evidence to port it. I can only dismiss it,” said the Magistrate. LIMITED LICENCE ALLOWED "Judging by his appearance in the box I think the defendant. is a truthful and frank person, and I will consider allowing him a limited licence,” said the Magistrate when convicting Norman Allan Bishop, a mobile-crane driver, on a charge of driving at a speed which might have been dangerous on May 9.

Bishop (Mr R. S. D. Twynefiam), pleaded not guilty. He was fined £l2 19s, and his driver’s licence was cancelled for one year. He was allowed 'to drive any class of- vehicle at' any time during his work and to drive to and from work. Traffic Officer H. W. Morris said he checked by microwave Bishop travelling 45 miles an

hour, in Bower avenue at 6.45 p.m. He .crossed the intersection of Marriotts road and Ascot avenue at this speed. The Magistrate said he had no doubt that Bishop travelled across the intersection kt a high speed and'he must be convicted of the charge. Mr Twyneham said that Bishop drove heavy articulated trucks and a mobile crane and sometimes started work as early .as 5 a.m. He also had tp travel from New Brighton to ;Hornby where he worked. CIVIL CASES JUDGMENT SUMMONSES The following orders were made on judgment summonses:— - Barry Reyal Columbus, worker, Hudson street, to pay Brian Wilfred Gorrle £B5 Bs, in default 87 days’. imprisonment, warrant suspended while £1 a week is paid; R. F. Richards, spray painter, care of Canterbury Tractor Company, Ltd., Rolleston, to pay J. J. Duncan £5 5s 6d (six days or £1 a week); G. D. Herrick, worker, Vancouver street, to pay Home Improvement Finance Company, Lt,d. £l9 15s (29 days or £1 a week); Donald John McKellar, .aircraft engineer, Breens road, to pay Paramount ■ Builders, Ltd. £67 (69 days or £1 a week); M. White, married woman, Godley avenue, . to pay A. R. Grainger .'£l9 13s 6d (12 days or 10s a week); Robert John Baillie, workman, Wesley street,KaiapoL to pay the Commissioner of Inland Revenue £ll 14s 7d (12 days or £1 a week). I. A. Gray, ’designer. Marine parade, to pay Herberts Shoe Company, Ltd. £l3 9s. (14 days or £2 a Week); E. Hargreaves, labourer, Cygnet street, to pay John F. Curtis £5 5s (six days or £1 a week); George M. Hendry, sheet metal worker, Morrison avenue, to pay R. T. Shiels and Company, Ltd. £ll 9s (12. days or £4 a week); M. C. Clarke, workman. Tonga street, to pay Pannell and Company, Ltd. £7 0s- Sd (eight days or £1 a week); G. W. Baldwin, worker, Armagh street, to pay the Christchurch City Council £ll 8s Id (12 days or £1 a week).

D. 8.. Cromb, Halswell road, to pay New Zealand Newspapers. Ltd. £4 Ils 4d (five days); Frederick Maxwell Singer, labourer, Dunn street, to pay Spiller and Blunt £7 10s (eight days or £1 a week); M. P. McAlister,- tiler, care of Tile Mosaic Company, Ltd., to pay Wilkins C.ontlnuous. Wallboards, Ltd'. £32- 4s 9d (34' days or £3 a week); A. R. Freeman, labourer, No. 3 R.D. Southbridge, to pay National Mortgage and Agency Company, Ltd. £7 14s 9d (eight days or £1 a week). - C. L. Morrison, workman, Hawke street, to pay McEwjns Garage (New Brighton), Ltd. £l6 7s 3d (17 days or £1 a week); M. Henry, worker, Appleby .crescent, to pay Smiths City Mar-, ket £1 is 6d (ope day): V. Beyers, factory hand, Breens road, to pay Reginald Charles Southen £32 19s Id (39- days or 19s a week); D. R. Slade, plasterer, Bldeford place, in pay N.Z. Newspapers, Ltd.' £7 14s 4d (eight days or £1 a week); F. Taylor, labourer, Wilsons road, to pay N.Z. Newspapers, Ltd. £2 16s 4d (three days or 10s a week). B. A. Birch, labourer, .Colombo street, to pay N.2. Newspapers. Ltd. £1 15s (two days); R. K. -Wilkins, labourer, Otakl street, tlaiapoi, to pay Rental Services, Ltd. £7 13s (eight days or £1 a week); M. J. Cooke, labourer, Armagh street, to pay C. L. Rhodes Rental Cara and Trucks, Ltd. £7 Ils Id (eight days or £1 a week); .Gavin Edward Hooper, labourer, ’ Yarmouth street, to’ pay Parkers Motors, Ltd. £49 15s (51 days or £1 a week); E. R. Mathie, worker, Manurere street, to pay Stills, Ltd. £l2 -8s 8d (13 days or £1 a week). Mavis Wootton. married woman. Main North road, Kalapof R.D., to pay T- and J. Daly £6 Bs. lOd (seven days or 19s a week); I. C. Martin, labourer, Teddington, to pay O. and L. Fairbrass £4l Bs, 43 days or £1 a. week); E. P. Cassidy, labourer. Auburn avenue, to pay N.Z. Newspapers, Ltd. £3 ■l2s 2d (four days); M. V. Bowden, married woman, Bateman aventte, to pay McLachlans Shoe Store,’ Ltd. £7 18s 5d (eight days or 10s a week): Raymond Douglas Brown, jobbing carpenter, McGregors road, to pay the Commissioner of -Inland Revenue £199 13s 5d (99 days or £1 a week). T- L. Cbapmaq, labourer. .Fenchurch street, to pay Christopher Bede Studios, Ltd. £» Ms (10 days or £1 a week); John Patrick Archibald. Fleming street, to pay Eric Raymond Richardson £l2B 9s Id' (90 days or £1 a week).