MAGISTRATE’S COURT Rode Motor-cycle When Disqualified

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30677, 17 February 1965, Page 6

MAGISTRATE’S COURT Rode Motor-cycle When Disqualified

Charged with driving in Cathedral square on November 14 while disqualified, Graham Charles Talbot, aged 24, a mine trucker (Mr G. T. Mahon) pleaded guilty in the Magistrate's Court yesterday before Mr E. S. J. Crutchley, S.M. He was convicted and remanded in custody to February 22 for sentence. Traffic Sergeant H. J. McMorran said that Talbot had been arrested on a warrant issued in Christchurch. At 6.45 p.m. on November 14, Talbot was seen riding a motor-cycle around Cathedral square and into Worcester street, said Traffic Sergeant McMorran. When stopped, Talbot admitted being disqualified until 1971 for driving under the influence of drink and causing death, and driving while disqualified. DISQUALIFIED

John Robert Martin, aged 21, a carpenter (Mr G. T. Mahon), was convicted and fined fl2 10s, and his licence was cancelled for one year, on a charge of driving in Colombo street on October 25 at a speed which might have been dangerous. He pleaded guilty. Traffic Sergeant McMorran said that at 8.55 p.m. on October 25, Martin travelled north in Colombo street at speeds varying between 35 and 40 miles an hour. There were strong gusts of wind, heavy rain and hail, and a sprinkling of snow and sleet on the road. Visibility was very poor, and Martin crossed intersections at speeds of 40 miles an hour. REMANDED

Clive lan Harris, aged 26, a scrap-metal dealer, was remanded on bail to February 22 on a charge of false pretences involving £lB 4s 7d on December 1, 1963. TRAFFIC CASES In traffic cases brought by the City Council traffic department, convictions were entered and fines imposed as follows: Exceeded 30 miles an hour: David Frank Young, £1; Michael Raymond Gibson, £3: Anton Helmut Groebel, £3; Robert Smith, £5; William Desmond Paulson, £3; Peter Loftus Berry, £2; David Jeffrey Bartram, £5 (no safety helmet, £3 and licence cancelled for six months, carried pillion passenger without helmet, £2): Sharyn Merle Anderson, £3; Douglas Norman Cherry, £5; Ashley Kingston Amos, £2; Anthony Peter Anticich, £4; Elyin Loucas Arvanitis, £4; Maurice Ashby, £2; Leslie Moore Atkinson, £4: Frank John Blanchfield, £5; Robert Bernie Bothwell, £4; Peter Brooking, £3; Roderick Paul Brown, £4: William James Brown, £5; Edward Harold Clarke, £5: James William Donaldson, £4 (failed to produce driver’s licence, £2, (no warrant of fitness, £1); Charles John Arnott Draper, £4; George Robert Garters, £3 (no driver’s licence, £5, failed to stop at compulsory stop, £3); Leonard Francis Gillespie, £3; Gilbert Francis Crossan, £4; Ronald Hilton Harding, £4: Cornelius Franciscus Hengst, £4: Christopher Thomas Holme, £5 and licence cancelled for one month: William Ray Hopping, £lO and licence cancelled for six months; Barry Michael Lynch, £2; Mary Catherine Lyons, £4: John Steven Maddock, £4: George Mansfield McClure, £4: Gregory John McClurg, £4 (wrong class of driver’s licence, £2): Gaynor Margaret Nichols, £4; Graeme Douglas Niven. £2: lan James Paterson, £5; Douglas Haig Rose. £4; James Hasting Rowland, £4: Janine Marion Rudkin. £5 (failed to produce driver’s licence, £2); Albert Heaton Savin. £5: Roger Allan Stewart, £5; Harry James Tyler, £4: James William Walsh, £4: Robert Edward Williams, £5; Donald Arthur Williamson, £4; Graham Wootton, £5; Scott Wright Yates, £4: John Allen Dobson, £4; Hunter McGill Dowall. £4. Careless driving: Michael Waretine. £4 (failed to report damage to vehicle, £4); Frederick George Stannard, £6: Grant William Irving, £4. licence cancelled for six months and ordered to attend course of traffic lectures. Failed to yield right of way: Roelof Hans Witting, £6: William James Boulton, £lO and licence cancelled for two months; Murray James Stoddart, £B.

Failed to yield right of way to pedestrian on crossing: William John Wilson, £5. Passed vehicle stopped at pedestrian crossing: John Christie Sturrock, £7 and

licence cancelled for two months.

Failed to comply with traffic lights: Howard Lewis Brown, £3 (exceeded 30 miles an hour, £4); Alan Masters, £7; Robert Terence Moriarty, £7. Failed to stop at compulsory stop: Reece Thomas Williams, £2; lan Leslie Gillard, £6. Failed to stop within distance of half clear road ahead: Russell Joseph McCarthy, £5. Failed to attend traffic lectures: Earl Manuel, costs and ordered to complete course of lectures.

Parking offences: Mervyn Harold Biddick, £2; Alastair Stratford Gordon Couston, £3; Jack Dumpleton, £1; Elaine Mary McGuigan, £1; John Charles Partleton, £1 (failed to supply information, £10).

Aided and abetted commission of offence: Keith Francis Joseph Critchley, £2.

No driver’s licence: Peter Russell Carter, £lO and licence cancelled for six months; Barry Ernest Chapman, £3.

No warrant of fitness: John Lindsay Joseph, £1; Ronald William Newton, £1 (failed to produce driver’s licence, costs only).

No heavy-traffic licence: Derek Stevens, £3. Unlicensed vehicle: Noel Grant, £5 (no lights displayed, £2). Insecure load: William John Irving, £3. DISCHARGED Daniel Wynandus Mentink, charged with a parking offence, was discharged without conviction under section 42 of the Criminal Justice Act. (Before Mr E. A. Lee, S.M.) CARELESS DRIVING CHARGE Murray Robert Knox, aged 30, a driving instructor (Mr P. J. Parham), was discharged, on payment of £4 towards the cost of prosecution, on a charge of careless driving. He pleaded not guilty. On a charge of having no warrant of fitness, to which he pleaded guilty, he was fined £l.

Traffic Officer R. Phillip said that at 11.25 a.m. on November 26 he saw a car driven by Knox in Moorhouse avenue turn left into Montreal street from the wrong lane. He checked the speed of the car at 36 miles an hour in Montreal street. When turning into South Crescent road the car went on to the wrong side of the road, and passed another vehicle on a slight bend. The warrant of fitness had expired in the same month.

The Magistrate said there were not the usual features of careless driving in the case, as there were no gross breaches of the regulations. What the defendant had done was to take some liberties with the regulations because he believed no-one was exposed to danger. No-one had been inconvenienced or troubled by his actions, but his driving was not that of a reasonably considerate motorist. (Before Mr K. H. J. Headifen, S.M.) CHARGES REDUCED Barry Williams Watson, aged 18, a clerk (Mr J. F.

Burn), was fined £lO on a charge of exceeding 30 miles an hour. He pleaded guilty. He was originally charged with driving at a speed which might have been dangerous. He pleaded not guilty to this charge, which was reduced to one of exceeding the speed limit.

Roger William House, a company manager, was fined £lO on a charge of exceeding 30 miles an hour. He pleaded guilty. He was originally charged with driving at a speed which might have been dangerous, to which he pleaded not guilty. He was represented by Mr P. T. Mahon. CIVIL CASES JUDGMENT SUMMONSES The following orders were made on judgment summonses:— L. S. Neilson, Avalon street, to pay Victor Hydraulics, Ltd., £l6 4s in default 18 days’ imprisonment, warrant suspended while £1 a week is paid; M. Holmes, workman, Hillary crescent, to pay Butler Cycle and Motor Company, Ltd. £ll Ils lid (12 days or 10s a week); R. Keats, salesman, Morrison avenue, to pay Christchurch Battery Company, Ltd. £8 5s 3d (nine days or £1 a week); T. A. Jones, worker, Godley avenue, to pay Home Improvement Finance Company, Ltd. £56 12s 6d (58 days or £1 a week). W. Cole, soldier, Burnham Military Camp, to pay R. T. Shiels and Company, Ltd. £l4 10s (15 days); A. H. Phillips, builder, Beach road, to pay K. E. England and Son, Ltd. £249 2s 7d (three months or £2 a week); P. H. Blokker, labourer, Rossmore terrace, to pay Fletcher Steel and Engineering Companies, Ltd. £39 7s lid (41 days or £1 a week); B. Turner, labourer, Highsted road, to pay C. J. Fitzgibbon and Sons, £2O 10s 4d (22 days or £1 a week).

Douglas Gibson Bodger, paper runner, Leaver terrace, to pay Commissioner of Inland Revenue £156 16s 4d (three months or £1 a week); J. Mason, rubber worker, Augusta street, to pay Muriel Edith Woodham £22 7s (24 days or £1 a week); P. H. Blokker, contractor, Rossmore terrace, to pay J. L. Shaw £42 13s 2d (44 days or £1 a week); M. F. Webb, driver, Godley avenue, to pay International Importing Company £27 17s (29 days or £1 a week).

C. R. McQuoid, dealer, Acheson avenue, to pay Simson Seeds, Ltd. £l7 Is 3d (18 days or £1 a week); C. B. Edgeworth, worker, Bower avenue, to pay Home Improvement Finance Company, Ltd. £3B 0s 8d (40 days or £1 a week); F. T. Hamilton, Langdons road, to pay Springs Road Garage £24 2s 7d (26 days or £1 a week); V. E. Berg artisan, Woodham road, to pay International Phonographic Society £7 9s (eight days or 10s a week). A. J. Clark, labourer, Kilmore street, to pay V. J. Stenton £3 14s (four days or £1 a week); S. A. Wright, artisan, Colenso street, to pay International Phonographic Society £8 19s 6d (10 days or £1 a week); C. M. Quinn, married woman, Truscotts road, to pay Drapery and General Importing Company, Ltd. £l3 17s (14 days or £1 a week); Kanui Rickus, freezing worker, Islington, to pay Ronald Alan Freeman £7 3s lid (eight days or £1 10s a week); T. G. Smith, machinist, Kaiwara street, to pay Stevenson’s Foodmarket £3 4s lOd (four days or £1 a week). POSSESSION ORDER Robert Patrick Taylor, waterside worker, and Colleen Mary Taylor, his wife, were ordered to give up possession of a house and land at 42 Brabourne road to the State Advances Corporation of New Zealand because of default in mortgage payments.