MAGISTRATE’S COURT Prohibited Driver Fined And Ban Renewed

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30530, 27 August 1964, Page 7

MAGISTRATE’S COURT Prohibited Driver Fined And Ban Renewed

“It Is only because of what your counsel has said that I don’t propose to impose a term of imprisonment,” Mr K. H. J. Headifen, S.M., told Robert George Johnson, aged 20, a sawmill band, when he appeared in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday on a charge of driving while disqualified on May 26. Johnson (Mr ’G. • R. Lascelles) pleaded guilty. Be was fined £25, and his driver’s licence was cancelled for one year. For having no warrant of fitness, to which he pleaded guilty, he was fined £1 10s.

Traffic Officer J. Wilson said that he stopped Johnson at Chaneys corner because he had only one light going on his car. Mr Lascelles said that Johnson had been disqualified on a careless driving charge, and he had only one week to go before his licence would have been restored. This was the first time Johnson had driven since being disqualified. “NOT DELIBERATE” It was just possible the accused was not aware of his disqualification, and the offence would not be regarded as a deliberate disregard of a court order, said the Magistrate when John Albert Beran, a machine operator, appeared on a charge of driving while disqualified on June 3. Beran pleaded not guilty. He was fined £5, and his driver’s licence was cancelled for one year. He was fined £3 for having no warrant of fitness, to which he pleaded guilty.

Beran said that when he was stopped by a traffic officer in Clyde road he did not know he was disqualified. He did not find a notice until some days later. CHARGE DISMISSED The whole defence reeked of suspicion, but the defendant had called his brother, who might have been an accomplice, and a sister, and he could not entirely discredit three witnesses for the defence if there was no real prosecution evidence, said the Magistrate when dismissing a charge against Gilbert Russell Miller, a farm worker, of failing to carry a heavy-traffic licence.

Miller (Mr B. L. Stanley) pleaded not guilty. Traffic Officer B. Mcßride said that Miller had 24 bags of cement and some empty boxes on his truck. The total weight was an estimated 2 tons 17 cwt. To Mr Stanley, the witness said he did not lift one of the bags, but they looked like normal, full; cement bags. Miller said he had 18 bags of sawdust on his truck. They weighed about 121 b each, and the weight of the truck and load would have been less than two tons. REMANDED Franklin Joseph Carey, aged 30, a taxi proprietor, was remanded on bail to September 3 on a charge of driving in Glandovey road under the influence of drink or drugs on August 26. TRAFFIC CASES Traffic offenders prosecuted by the Transport Department were fined as follows: Exceeding 30 miles an hour: Hilton Leslie Pearce, £4; Barry Anthony Bradley, £«; John Edward Cox, £5; Joan Derbridge, £3; David Vincent Francis, £3; Rodger Neville Inskster, £4; Gordon Eric Miller, £4; Cynthia Mary Taylor, £5; Albert William Walter, £5; Alan Ernest Barrell, £3; Runa Francis Bethell, £3; Laurence George Brennan, £4; Helen Jean Elizabeth Gilbert, £3; Garfield Arnold Andrews Holmes, £4; David Mcllwraith, £3; Wilwyn Arthur Marris, £6; John O’Rourke, £3; Russell Edward Sansom, £5 (cutting corner, £5); Murray Smith, £5; Stanton Victor Workman, £4. Failing to stop at sign: Michael Robert Harley, £3; Kichajfd John McGlashan, £3: Roger Willet Ensor, £3; Constance Mary Hindin, £3; Derek Sidney Lucas, £3; Charles Piesse, £4; Rex Samuel Charles Sears, £4.

No warrant of fitness: Donald Henry Aldridge, £3; Francis Benjamin Cridge, £4; Douglas James Tait, £3 (wrong class of driver’s licence, £2); Christopher Henry Broivn, £2 (failing to display licence label, £1 10s); Clive Morton Fossey, £3 (no warning device, £2); David Hamilton Heaps, £2; Alfred George Mansfield, £3; Driver Mokomoko, £3 (falling to produce driver’s licence, £3); Neville David Smith, £2 (no licence label displayed, £1); Berkeley McLeish Wynne, £2. Insufficient lights: Errol John William Galland, £3 (no driver’s licence, £2); William Robert Martin, £5; Lionel Joyce, £4 (failing to produce driver’s licence, £3).

Unregistered vehicle: Stanley Carson, £4; Graham Edward Bailey, £1; Trevor Edwin Dutton, £4 (no warrant of fitness, Failing to produce driver’s licence: Paul Joseph Collier, £4 (no warrant of fitness, £4); Michael Patrick Chick, £3 (parking offence, £2). No driver’s licence: Francis Kenneth Mclntyre, £4 (no warrant of fitness, £2); Bruce George Wing, £2; Peter Terence Edward O’Brien, £4 (failing to keep to left, £6). Failing to carry heavy-traffic licence: Ralph Edward Morris. Ltd., £6; Flewellyn and Lipscombe, Ltd., £4: H. P. Holt, Ltd.. £5 (no certificate of fitness, £3, no warrant of fitness on trailer, £3, licence not affixed to trailer, £2): Ryan Bros., Ltd., £7. Careless driving: Allan Newton Bailey, £5 (no warrant of fitness, £1). „ No certificate of fitness: Neil S. Combe, £4; John Watson Lowther, £3. Failing to dip: Trevor David Robinson, £3. Carrying . pillion pasenger while restricted: Peter Anthony Keppel, £2.

Parking offences: Terence John- Jones, £3. No rear red light: James Barry Smale, £2. ' No heavy-traffic licence: Francis David Bell, £4. Failing to comply with traffic lights: Robin James Miller, £5; Nyra Hilda Hardy, £6. Permitting use of unlicensed vehicle: Peter William Alexander Hayes, £3. Exceeding 55 miles an hour: William Herbert Bird, £5. Falling to give way: ’ Peter William Charles Larkin, £4. Passing stop sign before way was clear: Tom Nelson Newth. £2. Exceeding heavy - traffic licence: New Zealand Express Company, Ltd., £5. Failing to display warrant of fitness: John Edward Pluck, costs only. (Before Messrs G. W. Fairweather and E. J. Woolf. Justices of the Peace.) COMMITTED FOR TRIAL On a charge of breaking and entering the service station of Cyril Bruce Moore at Woodend on June 25, Ernest William Hammond, aged 34, a workman (Mr J. H. Gebbie), elected trial by jury, and was committed on bail to the Supreme Court for trial. On a charge of unlawfully Interfering with a car in Manchester street on August 5, Cyril James Pengelly, aged 32, a painter (Mr S. G. Erber), elected trial by jury, and was committed on bail to the Supreme Court for trial.