MAGISTRATES COURT Driver Fined And Disqualified For Year

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30559, 30 September 1964, Page 11

MAGISTRATES COURT Driver Fined And Disqualified For Year

Leonard John Craib, aged 24. a salesman, charged in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday with driving in Moorhouse avenue on September 5 at a speed which might have been dangerous, was convicted and fined £lO. and disqualified from driving for one year. Craib did not ap-

Mr K. H. J. Headifen, S.M., was on the bench. Travelling abreast of another vehicle, the defendant’s car crossed the intersection of Selwyn street and Moorhouse avenue at 52 miles an hour, said Traffic Officer T H. Wilkinson. Vision at the intersection was restricted on either side. Craib claimed the other car had previously cut in front of him. and he was trying to pet its number. However, he had already passed the point where he could see the car’s - mi her, said Traffic Officer Wilkinson. The other driver. a woman, said that Craib was chasing her. Further hack he had twice cut her off and forced her to stop. SPEED “GROSSLY EXCESSIVE” On a charge of driving at • speed which might have been dangerous in New Brighton road on July 31, Anthonv John Crawford, aged IS (Mr J. H. Gebbie), was convicted and fined £4, and disqualified for one year. He pleaded not guilty. Traffic Officer L. H. Wilkinson said he followed the defendant's car across two T Intersections at 55 miles an hour and another at 45 miles an hour. The defendant said he was running late for the pictures and thought he was in an onen speed zone. The defendant said in evidence that he considered his speed safe in the conditions. The Magistrate said that the defendant’s speed was grossly excessive. He showed a complete disregard for the rights of other road users. FINED £lB John Arthur Gay. aged 21. a shoemaker, pleaded guilty bv letter to using a vehicle carelessly, having no driver’s licence, and failing to supply his name and address on Julv 24. He was convicted and fined a total of £lB. Brian Mervyn Pankhurst. a taxi-proprietor, said that Gay’s car cut in behind him at the intersection of Colombo and Hereford streets, and followed him to the intersection of Cashel and Hiph streets, where he ran into the back of his car. Asked for his name and address, Gay became abusive and drove off. The witness chased him as far as Hereford street, and Gay then turned and travelled along the wrong side of the street. TWO DISQUALIFIED FOR SPEEDING Edwin Newton Dodge, aged 23, a traveller (Mr J. H. F. Macfarlane), pleaded guilty to exceeding 30 miles an hour in Madras street on July 10, and Bernard Lagrosse, aged 25, a blocklayer (Mr P. J. Parkham), pleaded guilty to exceeding 30 miles an hour in Opawa road on July 23. Each was convicted and fined £4, and disqualified for one month. It was Dodge’s fifth conviction for speeding, and Lagrosse’s fourth. Convicting Dodge, the Magistrate said: “I am not impressed by the continued statements made by defendants that their business requires their licence.” Four weeks without a

licence could not make such a difference, he added. Dodge could consider himself fortunate that the period of cancellation was not longer, and a similarly small period could not be considered if he offended again. Much the same comments applied to Lagrosse, said the Magistrate. NOMINAL FINE On a charge of making a right turn when prohibited at the intersection of Gloucester street and Colombo street on July 31, Alfred Cooper was convicted and fined £1 10s. Traffic Sergeant H. J. McMorran said the prosecution was the first of its kind to be brought before the Court since the war. He suggested that a nominal penalty to draw attention to the offence would be appropriate. BURGLARY Kenneth Raymond Munro, aged 17, an unemployed workman, was convicted and remanded on bail to October 2 for sentence on a charge of breaking and entering the premises of the Christchurch Amateur Roller Skating Club on September 21. He pleaded guilty. Detective Sergeant E. T. Mitten said that the accused had been sleeping out between September 18 and 27 after a difference with his father. The accused admitted breaking into the club to sleep and taking chocolate because he was hungry. IDLE AND DISORDERLY On a charge of being idle and disorderly on September 28 in that he had insufficient lawful means of support, George Leonard Jury, aged 17, unemployed, was convicted and remanded in custody to October 2 for sentence. Detective Sergeant Mitten said that Jury’s mother complained to the police because Jury had had not worked for three months. When she told him to get a job he hit her. The accused told the police he had been unable to obtain employment. PROBATION OFFENCE For failing to work where directed by his probation officer, Noel Raymond McIntyre, aged 19, a labourer, was convicted and fined £B. Mclntyre changed his plea from not guilty to guilty. The probation officer said that the accused committed the offence on August 19, when he travelled from Dunedin to Christchurch, contrary to instructions. His present employers in Christchurch seemed quite satisfied with him. When he heard that the police were looking for him he surrendered himself. FOUND DRUNK On a charge of being found drunk in Hereford street on September 28, having twice been convicted of drunkenness within the previous six months, Lena Lewis, aged 45, a housewife, was convicted and fined £3. She pleaded guilty. REMANDED Panayiotis Christopher, aged 23, a motor mechanic, was remanded on bail to October 5 on a charge of driving while disqualified in Oxford terrace on September 29. TRAFFIC CASES Traffic offenders prosecuted by the City Council’s traffic department were convicted and fined as follows: — Careless driving: Eric Stanley Baxter, £5; Charles William Mann, £B. Driving in inappropriate lane: Lennox Harrison, £6. Failing to give way to

right: George Baden Powell, £5; Katherine Hyacinth Fendail, £8; Failing to give way when turning: Iris Dorothy Davenport, £6. Failing to comply with traffic lights: Maurice William Knowles, £7. Failing to give way at pedestrian crossing: Neville John Stewart, £5. Failing to stop at school patrol: Irene Margaret Bates, £5; Edith Rayner Brodie, £5. Failing to stop at compulsory stop: Graeme Mackenzie Annan, £4; Johannes Wilhelmus Hendrikus Bakermans, £4; Maurice Bellamy, £4 (no driver’s licence, £2); lan Thomas Giltrap, £4. Unable to stop within half clear distance: Raymond Gerald Burrows, £4. Exceeding 30 miles an hour: Henry Cocks, £3; John Patton Marshall, £5: John Ronan, £5; Laszlo Szomor, £4; Timothy James Thomson, £3; Walter Garland Argus, £3; Eric James Aukett, £3: Russell Oborn Batchelor, £3; Johannes Albertus Beerthuizen, £4: John Arthur Bobby, £3; Klaus Bramekamp, £4; David Lionel Butler, £4; Stanley Edwin Christensen, £4; Owen Keith Cloudesley, £5: Ronald Lewis Collett, £3; Raymond Francis de Bueger, £3; Peter Keith Frost, £4; Geoffrey Logan Green, £4; Michael James Griffin, £4; Graham Ernest Gurden, £4; Bernard John Hale, £4; Gwyneth Rhoda Dorrans, £2; Beverley Millie Hauschild, £4: Ivan Gilbert Healey, £4; Royce Edward Henefy, £3; Donald Hill, £4; Roger William House, £4; Albert Hughes, £4: Maurice Leo Charles Humphries, £3; Arthur James William Jackson, £4; William Graeme Johnston, £4: Mervyn James Kedzlie, £2; Christopher Warren Keir, £2; David Roland Kerr, £4; Thomas Kirner, £4; Norman Albert Lawrence, £2; Terrence Tracy Lewis, £4; Keith Cecil Mackay. £4 (no driver’s licence, £6); John Ogilvy Miller, £4; Mervyn Richard Monk, £4; William Dawson Pearson, £4: Raymond Thomas Quaid, £4; Charles Richard. Davies Reardon, £4; Ernest Allan Richardson, £4; Percy Keith Riddell, £4; Neville Robert Stephenson, £4; Hector Dalton Stewart, £3: Gladys Stiles, £4: Arthur Frederick Charles Tavendale, £4; lan Neville Turner, £4; Evert van Essen, £4; John Richard Vivian, £4; Colin George Vucetich, £4: Robert Edwards Williams. £3; Noel Reece Andreassend, £4. No driver’s licence: Balfour Webb Marshall. £3; Reynold Eric Andrews, £3 (no warrant of fitness, £4); Philip Clive de Nicolo, £3; Henry Hona, £8 (no warrant of fitness, £3); Anthony Dennis O’Connor, £6; Alan Murray Peters, £3. Failing to produce driver’s licence: Gavin Charles Hamilton, £4. No warrant of fitness: Alexander Malcolm, £2 (un ; licensed vehicle, £2). Unsafe load: Douglas Norman Reed, £7 Not carrying heavy-traffic licence: Neel Hagglow, £4 (no warrant of fitness. £3); Edward O’Sullivan, £5 (no certificate of fitness, £5). Exceeding heavy-traffic licence: Kim Bashford, Ltd., £5 (no driver’s licence, £2). Using horn at night: Brian Henry Johnson, £5. No silencer: Ronald John Coulston, £4, and ordered to attend school of instruction. Towing bicycle: Brian John Moore, £4. Permitting bicycle to be towed: Jeffrey Mark Taylor, £4. Safety chain not coupled: William Francis Nicolson, £2. Parking offence: Robert Amai, £3. (Before Mr E. A. Lee, S.M.) FINED, DISQUALIFIED Brent George Foster, aged 16, a motor reconditioner (Mr W. A. Wilson), pleaded not guilty to driving at a speed which might have been dangerous and failing to stop at a traffic officer’s signal on June 28.

For driving at a speed which might have been dangerous he was convicted and fined £7 10s, and disqualified from driving for one year.

The other charge was dismissed. FINED £4 Hilda Lillian Stannard, a housewife, pleaded not guilty to using a vehicle carelessly in Colombo street on July 29. She was convicted and fined £4. (Before Mr J. D. Murray,. S.M.) FINED £l2 Geoffrey Scott Parsonson, a driver, was fined £lO for passing a vehicle at the intersection of Worcester street and Fitzgerald avenue on August 4 and £2 for exceeding 30 miles an hour in Fitzgerald avenue on July 23. He pleaded not guilty to the first charge and guilty to the second. CIVIL CASES (Before Mr E. S. J. Crutchley, S.M.) JUDGMENT SUMMONSES The following orders were made on judgment summonses: R. Hines, Everest street, to pay Mairehaii Sawmills, Ltd., £l2 Is, In default 13 days’ imprisonment, warrant suspended while £1 a week is paid; R. Forbes, married woman, to pay the Christchurch City Council £l7 5s 2d (18 days or 10s a week); M. M. Brand, housewife. Ticehurst street, Lyttelton, to pay the Chris tchurch City Council £6 7s lOd (seven days or 10s a week); A C. Hutchinson, worker, Clifton terrace, to pay the Christchurch City Council £7 18s' 2d (eight days or £1 a week); Pauline Lewer, married woman, Pavitt street, to pay Radio and Domestic Finance, Ltd., £33 12s 9d (35 days or 10s a week); James Taffs, labourer, Heather place, to pay Robert Francis, Ltd., £4 3s 3d (four days). P. D. Gilmore, spinster,. Berry street, to pay Franklin Finance Company £8 4s 4d (nine days or £1 a week); Monica Eva Hobbs, married woman, Haast street, to pay Charles Begg and Company, Ltd., £4 10s (five days or 10s a week): Winifred Mary Salt, married woman, Harewood road, to pay Charles Begg and Company, Lid., £6 2s (seven days or 10s a week); H. R. Hayes, married woman, Marriotts road, to pay D.I.C. £9 13s 9d (10 days or 10s a week); C. R. Caithness, worker, Rotherham street, to pay J- Rattray and Son, Ltd., £2O 5s (22 days or £1 a week). W. A. Smith, salesman, Dunedin street, to pay Hoon Hay Services, Ltd., £6 15s (seven days or £1 a week); P. A. Wright. Bridge street, to pay H. E R. Righton £B7 (89 days or £1 a week); Robert Henry Brockle, trading as Brockie Publications, Conference street, to pay Wyatt and Wilson, Ltd., £137 15s (90 days or £1 a .week); Robert Zimala, cook, St. Asaph street, to pay the Commissioner of Inland Revenue £3l 0s 5d (33 days or £1 a week); W. H. Martin, retired, Halberg street, to pay Minsons, Ltd., £8 5s 6d (nine days or 10s a week); Joseph D. Fitzgibbon, driver, Hounslow street, to pay D. J. McGlrr £29 14s 3d (31 days or £1 a week); R. G. Packer, reporter, to pay McGruers, Ltd., £6 18s (seven days or £1 a week); Joseph D. Fitzgibbon, driver, to pay Derek John Mayo £3l 4s 6d (33 days or £1 a week).