Magistrate’s Court Fined £30, Disqualified For 18 Months

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30809, 22 July 1965, Page 6

Magistrate’s Court Fined £30, Disqualified For 18 Months

A motor-cycle carrying the defendant and a pillion passenger reached speeds of between 65 and 70 miles an hour in Wharenui road at 8.40 p.ra. on May 8, Traffic Officer L. B. Bolton told Mr K. H. J. Headifen, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday. Before the Court was Bernard Wallies Newman, aged 18, a timber worker, who pleaded not guilty to charges of driving in a manner which might have been dangerous and failing to stop at the direction of a traffic officer, and guilty to a charge of exceeding 30 miles an hour while not wearing a safety helmet. On the first charge, Newman was convicted and fined £l5, and his licence was cancelled for 18 months. On the charge of failing to stop, he was convicted and fined £lO. He was convicted and fined £5 on the other charge. Newman said in evidence that he did not consider that he was driving in a dangerous manner. He had attended a driving school, and if anything had come up, he would have been able to stop in time. i The Magistrate said that the defendant had no conception of what was, or might have been, dangerous. Newman could have been charged with reckless driving. Failing to stop for the traffic officer was wilful defiance. (Before Mr E. A. Lee, S.M.) INDECENT ASSAULT A man, whose name was suppressed (Mr M. G. L. Loughnan), was convicted and remanded on bail to July 29 for sentence on a charge of indecently assaulting a girl under the age of 12 years on June 18. The man, who had originally elected trial by jury, changed his election and pleaded guilty. REMANDED Roderick Paul Brown, aged 21, a butcher, was remanded on bail to July 29 on two charges of burglary on July 11. TRAFFIC CASES In traffic cases brought by the Transport Department, fines were imposed as follows: Exceeded 30 miles an hour: Colin Aubrey Bartley, £7: Malcolm James Campion, £4; Raymond Edwin Watson, £5: Raymond Isaac Karst, £5: Gary Edwin Shearer, £10: Bruce Alfred Bolton, £5; David Edward Payne, £4: Russell William Beardsmore, £8: Gordon James McLeish, £6; Stuart Marshall Murray, £8: Hemi Te Heu Heu Nuku, £6: David Graham Reid, £4 (failed to produce driver's licence, £1): Brian Walter Wray, £5; Lawrence Harold Chambers, £5; William Joel Albert Edlin, £5: Francis Brian Mark Kennedy, £4: John Stanley James Miller. £4; Grant Rapana, £5: Richard Reginald Sweet, £4: Joan Dennison, £4; Clarence John Holmes, £5; Colin Duncan Macfarlane, £4: Kevin John O’Connell, £4; Barbara Ellen Poppiewell, £5: Vivian Ernest Walker, £10; Edward Franklin Fairburn, £8: Kevin Nelson McCrea, £lO. Exceeded heavy-traffic licence: Christchurch Ready Mix Concrete, Ltd., £3 (exceded axle Limit, £5); Hume

Industries (N.Z.), Ltd., £2 (exceeded axle limit, £2); Raymond Gordon Brown, £3 (exceeded axle limit, £3): lan Cuthbert and Selwyn Bruce, £1 10s each: Service Transport and Agency, Ltd., £2 (exceeded axle weight, £5): Stone Carrying Company, Ltd., £5.

Exceeded axle weight: Ryan Bros., £5. Failed to stop at stop sign: Eric Gordon Johnson, £lO (exceeded 30 miles an hour, £4); Tomas Havlicek, £lO and disqualified for one month (no warrant of fitness, £1); Keith Fredrick Dowble, £8; Gavin James Dougherty, £3: James Malcolm Duncan, £10: Timothy James Bromley Maling, £3; Alwyn Bryce Richardson, £4: John Robert Jolly, £5; Donald Andrew Cameron, £3; Gwenda Mary Keys, £3. Exceeded 55 miles an hour: David John Redipafh, £10: Donato Graziano Damiano. £10; William Thomas May, £8: Charles Henry Debenham, £3 (exceeded 30 miles an hour, £6). Insufficient lights: Noel Arthur Schenilell, £5: Gary Ralph Yates, £10; Spiro Cosmatos, £5: Edward George Farrow, £5: Robert Walter Scott, £5: Peter loannou, £lO. No red rear light: Alfred Ernest Chatterton, £7. No warrant of fitness: John Murray Clegg, £8 (failed to produce driver’s licence, £1): Colin Edward Neil Hunt, £1: Herbert Stanley Martin, £1 (failed to produce driver’s licence, £1); Keith Butler, £5. Permitted use of unlicensed vehicle: Alan George Frame, £5. No certificate of fitness: Hunt Bros., £8 (no brakes on heaVy trailer, £8). Proceeded before way was: clear from stop sign: Hubertus Schuurman, £lO. Failed to keep to left: Engel Givert Scholtens, £7. Exceeded 30 miles an hour without safety helmet: Neville Francis Guthrie. £4. Failed to produce driver’s licence: Leonard Allan Prouting. £5. Overtook on wrong side: Philip Kelvin Thompson, £3. Careless driving: Graham Victor Lintern. £3. Noisy vehicle: Charles David Sparks, £5. Exceeded 40 miles an hour with trailer: Warwick Stephen Tweedy, £4. No driver's licence: Keith : William Wilson, £5. 1 (Before Messrs. A. C. Rhodes and R. H. Harris. Justices of the Peace). I COMMITTED FOR TRIAL A man. whose name was ; suppressed, was committed :to the Supreme Court for trial on a charge of using obscene language in Montreal I street on June 22. He pleaded: jnot guilty and was represen-1 ted by Mr M. J. Glue. The ae-| i cused was granted bail. (Before Mr H. J. Evans, S.M.) DECISION RESERVED A charge of passing at a bend marked with no-passing lines near Kaiapoi on May 2. against Barry James Houston, a carpenter (Mr D. H. Stringer) was reheard. After submissions by Mr Stringer, who entered a plea of guilty on behalf of his client, the Magistrate reserved his decision. On July 7 Houston pleaded guilty to the charge and was convicted, fined £5, and disqualified for three months.