Magistrate’s Court Instruction To Traffic Officers On Night Speeding

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30535, 2 September 1964, Page 11

Magistrate’s Court Instruction To Traffic Officers On Night Speeding

Christchurch City Council traffic officers had been Instructed to charge with driving at a speed which might have been dangerous anyone caught with the microwave detector exceeding 45 miles an hour after dark. Traffic Officer R. Phillips said when questioned by Mr P. G. S. Penlington in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday. Mr Penlington’s client, Trevor Cyril Watson, a traveller, prosecuted by the City Council’s traffic department, pleaded not guilty to a charge of driving at a speed that might have been dangerous at 11.20 p.m. on June 25. Traffic Officer Phillipa said he checked Watson over twotenths of a mile in Cranford street, and his speed was 49 miles an hour. When stopped, Watson said he did not know he had been going so fast There were no pedestrians and no other traffic, the shops were closed, and the weather was fine, the witness said. Mr K. H. J. Headlfen, S.M., said that although 49 miles an hour might be on the borderline of danger tn a 30-mile-an-hour built-up area, there must be other circumstances to show danger or potential danger. The other circumstances were In Watson's favour. The Magistrate amended the charge to one of exceeding 30 miles an hour. Watson then pleaded guilty, and was fined £6. THEFT OF PETROL The accused syphoned petrol out of trucks parked In a firm’s yard and used It in a rental car, Senior-Sergeant G. M. Cleary said when Raymond Kenneth Ellis Low, aged 19, unemployed, and Michael John Treurn, aged 22, unemployed, pleaded guilty to a joint charge of Mealing 28 gallons of petrol valued at £4 9s lOd between August 28 and August 30. Both were remanded on bail to September 4. INDECENT ASSAULT ALLEGED John Haines, aged 24, a soldier, was remanded to October 1 for psychiatric observation on a charge of indecently assaulting a boy aged 14. DISMISSED A charge of driving at a speed that might have been dangerous, against Donald John Stewart Reid (Mr J. N. Matson), who pleaded not guilty, was dismissed. No evidence was given of the defendant’s speed when he was Mopped by Traffic Officer C. Baldwin on July 31. OTHIR TRAFFIC CASES In other traffic caaea brought by the City Council traffic department fine, were imposed as follows: Speed might have been dangerous: Martin Francis Maguire, £8 and diaqualifled for one year; David John Unwin, £l2 and diaqualifled until July 21, 1985; David Lindsay Baker, £l2 and diaqualifled for one year from September 4; David Arthur Hammant, £2 and disqualified for one year. Failed to give way at give-

way sign: Cyril Wingate Price, Carrying passenger on powercycle: David John Gardiner, £2. Exceeding' M miles an hour: Ronald John Dell, £4; Brian James Andrew, £4 (failed to firoduce driver’s licence, £2); an Parkes Gordon. £4; Owen Elson Brown, £4; Ronald Horace Chapman, £3: Gordon Hubert Wicks, £2; Douglas Gray Allan, - £4: Colin George Amor, £4; Kenneth Mark Armstrong, £3: Rex James Baron, £4; George John Berg, £4; Bruce Alfred Bolton, £4; Richard Ernest Bowker, £3; James Vineent Brooks, £4; Roger James Burgess, £4; David Lionel Butler, £4; Neville Joseph Buxton, £4; Eric George Clifford, £4; Blaine Marie Cooper, £4; Doreen Phyllis Croy, £3; Arthur William Doak, £4; John Edward Downes. £4; David George Drayton, £4; Maurice James Drewlft, £4; Ivan Keith Bdyvean, £4; Rex William Elshaw £4 (no driver's licence, £2); Jacobus Martinus Haakmeester, £4; Johnny Andrew Hagenaar, £3; Bruce Alexander Hall, £4 and ordered to attend three traffic lectures; Selwyn Ross Hall, £3 and ordered to attend three traffic lectures; Michael David Harvey, £5; David Llnsay Hodgen, £4; John Edwin Keatley, £4; Graeme Frank Kendall, £3 (no motor-cycle licence, £1); David John Lacey, £4 (no driver’s licence, £1 10s); Dennis Ronald Lamberton, £4; Raymond John Lloyd, £8; Jatnes Thomas McCabe, £4 and disqualified for one month: Kevin Wain McNeil, £4; William Arthur Mantzll, £4; Douglas Mate, £4; John Harry Mitchell, £4; Ronald Malcolm Mitchell, £4; Kevin Porter Moffat, £4; David Gough Owen, £3; Michael James Parish, £4; Anthony David Pringle. £4; Stanley Richmond Rex £4; John Brotherton Riley, £3 (no driver's licence, £1 10s); Maureen Nola Robertson, £4; Teddy Edward Ruki, £4 (failed to stop at compulsory stop sign, £4); Dirk Romeyn, £4; Nell Francis Smith, £4; William John Smith, £3; Allan Edward Sparey, £3; lan Charles Thomas, £4; Michael Howard Towart, £4; Hendrikus Albertlnus van der Klls, £4; Christopher van Wieren, £4; Robert William Young, £3; Leonie Kathleen Wilde, £4; Thomas Stoddart, £3 (no driver's licence, costs); Joseph Thomas Lindsay, £3; Frank Renwick, £4; Bernard Hyatt £3; Eric Karel Christiaan van Notten, £4; lan Francis Garrick, £l3. A Unable to stop In half clear distance: Alan E. Ward, £2; Mervyn Leonard Kirton, £3; Leslie Henry Thomas Taylor, £4. Failed to carry heavy-traffic licence: Victor Edwin Robert Bangert, £4; Canterbury Welldrilling Company, Ltd., £4. Operated unlicensed vehicle: Marguerite Boyd, £1 10s. Failed to stop at compulsory stop sign: Charles Heathcote Dann, £3; Frederick Thomas George, £3; Stanley George Stoddart, £3; Anthony John Woods, £3 (no driver’s licence, £1 10s). No driver's licence: Leslie John de Rose, £3; John Churchill Elworthy, £1 10s (no warrant of fitness, £2); Graham David Morris, £3; Anthony Melkte, £l. No warrant Of fitness: Ronald Goslin, £2 and £3 (two charges); Lenard Webb, £3 (failed to produce driver's licence, £3); Charles Raymond Thomas, £5. Unlicenced trailer: James Stewart Heard, £3. Failed to produce driver's licence: 'Mike Kotslcas, £3. No head light on cycle: Brian Henry Walne, £l. (Before Mr E. S. J. Crutchley, S.M.) DISMISSED There was a strong suggestion that there might have been an unexpected movement, said the Magistrate when dismissing a charge against Julian George Shuba, a company representative, of careless driving in Lincoln road on June 12. Shuba pleaded not guilty, and was represented by Mr D. H. Stringer. The charge arose out of a concertina collision at the corner of Lincoln road, Hagley

avenue, Moorhouae avenue, and Grove road. A charge against William Henry Newson of falling to carry a heavy-traffic licence on June IT was dismissed. Newson had given evidence that he posted the cheque for the licence fee, the Magistrate said. (Before Mr A. A. Coates, t.M.) LICENCE CANCELLED "You now have four convictions for speeding. On March 29 you were warned by Mr E. A. Lee, S.M., that if you appeared before the Court again you would lose your licence. This was a shocking piece of driving, and you acted as a , culpable fool," said the Magistrate when fining Anthony Richard Appleby, an electrical serviceman (Mr C. T. Mahon), £lO on a charge of exceeding 30 miles an hour. Appleby’s licence was cancelled tor four months. Appleby was originallycharged with driving at a speed which might have been dangerous, but the charge was reduced by the Magistrate. Appleby was fined £3 for failing to stop at a compulaory stop sign, and £1 for having no driver’s licence. He pleaded not guilty to the charge of driving at a speed which might have been dangerous, and guilty to the other charges. Evidence was given that about 1.13 a.m. on July 5 a car driven by Appleby was checked at 35 miles an hour in Brougham street and 48 miles an hour In Colombo street. CARELESS DRIVING

Keith Edward Timms, a driver, was fined £7 lot on a charge of careless driving. He pleaded not guilty, and was represented by Mr R. L. Kerr. The charge arose out of an accident between a truck driven by Timms and a truck driven by Robert Edwin Bennett in Rlccarton avenue near the roundabout about 4.13 p.m. on May 22. Bennett gave evidence that he had stopped to put back a bag of cement which was slipping over the edge of the tray. Timms said the sun was very low and was reflecting on the left side of the windscreen. CIVIL CASES (Before Mr E. S. J. Crutchley, S.M.) JUDGMENT SUMMONSES The following orders were made on judgment summonses:— L. Rosewarne, married woman, Gbdley avenue, to pay Robert Bruce Shand £8 14s, in default seven days* imprisonment, warrant suspended while 10s a week is paid; M. M. Purdon, builder, Cobra street, to pay Mason Struthers and Company, Ltd., £lB3 8a Is (90 days or £1 a week); M. Blair, married woman. Cobra street, to pay B. Richards, Ltd., £2l (23 days or 10s a week); E. R. Pardoe, builder, Kalwara street, to pay Concrete Post and Butt Company, Ltd.. £l3 7s 2d (14 days or £1 a week); R. Postlethwalte, labourer, Oakland street, to pay J. M. V. Morel, £8 is (nine days or £1 a Week). J. P. Maxwell, married woman, Petrie street, to pay the National Insurance Company of New Zealand, ltd., £27 Its lid (29 days or £1 a week); D. Cassidy, Bellbrook crescent, to pay E. D. Wall £2O 8s 7d (22 days or £1 a week); A. Cross, labourer, harbour road, Brooklands, to pay Miraele Service Station, Ltd., £l4 2s Id (15 days); D. R. Fisher, labourer. Langdons road, to pay New Zealand Newspapers, Ltd., £5 9s (five days or £1 a week); Stanley Albert Jones, hairdresser, Quinns rood, to pay A. E. Tyson £8 IBs 2d (eight days or £1 a week). J. McEwan, Colman avenue, to pay D.1.C., Ltd., £ll 8s (12 days or £1 a week); R. Robson, worker. Cranley street, to pay McPhail and Fisher, Ltd., £3 10s (four days); M. Kovac, worker, Southwark street, to pay Smiths City Market, -Ltd., £3 (three days); G. Beach, sales representative, Solway avenue, to pay K. J. O'Connor £4 7s 8d (four days); T. Skilling, operator, Lyndhurst crescent, to pay Amalgamated Telehire (N.Z.), Ltd., £35 2s lid (37 days or £1 a week); R. Riley, worker, Pembroke street, to pay Amalgamated Telehire (N.Z.), Ltd., £8 17s 8d (10 days or £1 a week). T. W. Prior, scrap metal dealer, St. Asaph street, to pay F. A. Atkinson £37 Ss (38 days or £1 a week); F. Michael, McFaddens -road, to pay Graham Robinson (Seed and Produce), Ltd. £8 12s (nine days or £1 a week): G. M. Gardiner, married woman, Middlepark road, to pay Rolls Appliances, Ltd., £ll 2s 8d (12 days or 5s a week): B. R. Mitchell, labourer. Buckleys road, to pay the Public Trustee of New Zealand £3B 15s (40 days or £1 a week): Winifred Alice Clark, married woman, Kilmore street, to pay D.1.C., Ltd., £32 3s 5d (34 days or 10s a week). P. Beadle, labourer, Beach road, to pay Southland Farmers' Co-op. Assn., Ltd., £5 3s 8d (five days or 15s a week); P. Beadle to pay Charles Begg and Company, Ltd., £3 10s 8d (four days); Patrick Beadle to pay Butler Motors £7 10s 8d (eight ?ay», or £1 a week); Mavis Mabel Swords, Salisbury street, to pay Norm Gibson, Ltd., £BO 4s (82 days or £1 a week): W. Qulnne, housewife, Torrens road, to pay Court Florists £3 15s 8d (tour days or 10s a week); T. Downs, Tenby place, 1° ®- Kennard £22 8s 8d (24 days or 10s a week). D. McJarrow, driver, Broadfields, to pay. Springs road Garage. Ltd., £24 4s 3d (28 days or £1 a week); R. T. Neal, salesman, Thackeray street, to pay Christchurch Car Sales, Ltd.. £4B 12s 3d (50 days or £2 a week). POSSESSION ORDER John Patrick Crannitch, newspaper employee, was ordered togive up possession of a house at 28 Hillary crescent, Rlccarton, to the State Advances Corporation of New Zealand because of default of mortgage payments.