Magistrate's Court Used Obscene Language To 111 Operator

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30856, 15 September 1965, Page 14

Magistrate's Court Used Obscene Language To 111 Operator

A man who dialled the emergency telephone number 111 and used obscene language to the operator was fined £lO when he appeared before Mr E. S. J. Crutchley. S.M.. in the Magistrate's Court yesterday. Senior-Sergeant G. M:> Cleary said that on August 21 James Edward Hopkins, aged! 27. a locomotive assistant, was! having a dispute with his wife.; She threatened to ring the police, and Hopkins said he. would do it for her. The toll operator, Joan Charlotte Page,! answered the call to the emergency number and heard persons arguing. After queries by the operator, the obscene words were used and repeated. The call had been monitored by a police officer, and it was traced to the accused's home. He had admitted the offence; and said he had been drinking heavily. . Hopkins pleaded guilty. TWO CHARGES Charged with driving out- , side the terms of a Court order and supplying false information to a traffic officer on August 29 in Pages road, j William Joseph Wright,, aged 19, a labourer (Mr J. F. Burn), was convicted and fined £3O. and the period of cancellation | of his licence was extended for 18 months. He pleaded guilty to both charges. Traffic Sergeant H. J.! McMorran said that at 1.45 a.m. on August 29 Wright was seen riding a motor-cycle south along Breezes road towards the city, and was stopped in Pages road. Wright said that his name was John Joseph Williams, of 161 Breezes road. He then changed the address to 111' North street, Timaru. When he could not identify himself! he was taken to the traffic department, where he again said that he was John Joseph i Williams, of 111 North street, [ Timaru. He was taken to the I Central Police Station, where I he persisted with his story, j On August 30 Wright was found working at the Pacific I Scrap Metal Company in Port ! Hills road, where he was ini terviewed. On this occasion he gave his correct name, but denied being the driver of the motor-cycle in Breezes road and Pages road. ; Two sergeants, identified 'Wright, having seen him drive the same motor-cycle away from the traffic department in Manchester street on August 29. Mr Burn said that Wright had panicked. DRIVERS FINED AND . DISQUALIFIED Roy Ludwig, aged 22. a travelling salesman '(Mr G. R. Lascelles), whose speed was checked at 60 miles an hour in Pages and Buckleys roads, was fined £25, and his licence was cancelled for one year. He pleaded guilty to a charge of-driving at a speed which might have been dangerous. Charged with driving at a speed which might have been dangerous in New Brighton road on August 24, lan Frederick Hawes, aged 21, a carpenter, was convicted and fined £25, and his licence was cancelled for 18 months. He pleaded guilty. Evidence was given that the defendant's vehicle was I checked over two T intersections at 60 miles an hour in I New Brighton road and at 45 miles an hour over another two intersections in Seaview road. REMANDED , WilHam John Seddon, aged 23, a carpenter, was remanded ion bail to September 16 on a (charge of receiving from Nicholas Thompson goods to ! the value of £94, knowing that ! they had been obtained dishonestly. Robin- Michael Francis Sheedy, aged 22. a bushman (Mr JR. G. Blunt), was convicted and remanded on bail to September 27 on a charge of driving on September 2 while disqualified. He pleaded guilty. A charge of failing to produce his licence for endorsement was adjourned to September 27. George Cook, aged 25, a carnival hand, was convicted !and remanded on bail to September 27 for sentence on a charge of driving while disqualified. He pleaded guilty. Paul Richard Flutey, aged 18, a fish processor (Mr G. R. Lascelles), was remanded to September 16 on a charge of stealing three tins of oystars valued at £7 10s, the property of Fish Processing, Ltd. Bail was allowed. A man whose name was suppressed was remanded on bail to September 16 on a charge, of obscene exposure in a public place on September 13. TRAFFIC CASES In cases brought by thei Christchurch City Council ( (traffic department fines were’ (imposed as follows: — 1 Exceeded 30 miles an hour: j Malcolm Leslie Rhodes. £6: Timothy James Thomson. £6: (Christopher John Mountfort.! (£3: John Rodger Eastmond. (£6: Kelvin Michael Stevens.; £6: Tuku Ken O'Brien, £4: David Dennis Altoft. £4: Michael William George Archdale. £4. Garry Kenneth Bates. £6: Malcolm Edward Breach, £4: Noel Bremner, £5; Thomas Reginald Broadbelt £4: Norma Myrtle Cadenhead. £4: Hugh Calder. £4: Victor Rex Claude, £6: Allin Campbell Cook, £6: Anthony Joseph Cronin, £4 10s: Andre Denys, £5; Dennis Alan; Eaton, £5: Greg John Fitz-; gibbon, £4; lan Richard Gillespie, £6: Keith lan Hooper, £4; Michael Joseph Hutt £3; Gabrielle Anna Marie Kardos, £2: Helen Mary Lewis. £4: lohn Campbell McKeowan. £6: Douglas John McLeay, £2: Edward Cargill McMaster, £4: Ivor Anthony Millington, £6; Patrick Joseph Murphy, £4 (failed to produce driver’s licence. £2): Henry Norman,; £5; B.rian Conrad Osborne. (

£4: Owen Silian Rees. £3: Maurice Clifford Richards. £4 (no warrant of fitness. £2): Donald Nelson Symonds. £4: Darrock Ross Upton. £4: John Llyoyd Williams. £4. No warrant of fitness: Roger Lesley Graham, £2; James Edward Carr, costs l only (unlicensed trailer, costs 1 only): Jeffrey Brook. £3: Vincent Robert Brown. £1 (failed to produce driver’s licence.' £2): Stanley Holmes Challis, £5: Brian Griffin. £5: Ingeburg Marie Heine, £2; Leonard John Taylor. £5. No driver's licence: Edward Skipworth Dixon. £4: William John Roberts. £7 (unlicensed vehicle, £7. no warrant of fitness. £1): John Patrick Lenihan. £3. Failed to stop at traffic I lights: lan Clifford Whitford. £3: Alfred Alan Hasell. £3: Simon Martin. £1 (supplying false and misleading information. £3). Winterbourn, £lO. licence cancelled for six weeks. Failed to stop at compulsory stop: lan George Bailey. £2 (no driver's licence, £5; Robert Murray Banks. £1: Basil James Butler. £5; George McCrea, £3; Dallas McLachlan Hart £5: Paul William McOscar, £5: William O’Brien. £2; Michael Phillips. £5; Hurtle Hack Sutton. £3. Insufficient lights: Warren Jenkins, £3. Failed to give way at sign: John Robert Masters. £B. Failed to give way to right: Harold John Waller, £6: Faith Irene Bruce, £10: Maurice Keith Browing, £10; Florence Eleanor Haultainn. £5: Clive Ellis Boulton. £3, licence cancelled for one month; William Keith Easton, £7: Stephen Kovacs. £B. Insecure load; Brian Thomas Barton, £lO. licence cancelled for one week. Dangerous load: Trevor George McLintock, £3. Overloaded heavy-traffic vehicle: W. Williamson Construction Company, Ltd., £3 (overloaded rear axle. £3). Unlicensed vehicle: lan Murray Peters, £5: William Reginald Daw. costs only; Elizabeth Adamson, £5:. Glen Russell Clark, £lO (no warrant, of fitness, £1): lan James Robin Gray. £5; John Richard Hanmer. £5: Caroline Mary Lowry, £5 (no driver’s licence, £3); Gerald Malcolm McCormack, £7; Steven Searle. £5: Cedric Stanley Woods, £5. Unlicensed motor-cycle: Peter Christopher Monin, £3. Unlicensed power-cycle: Graham Edward Bailey, £3. No heavy-traffic licence: Trevor Arthur Moore, discharged under Section 42 of the Criminal Justice Act and ordered to pay court costs only; .Christchurch Suppliers, Ltd., convicted and discharged. No safety chain: Raymond George Barton, £5; Murray Arthur Cox, £5: Thomas Holmes £5; William Nicholas Maffey, £5. Failed to keep to left: Jonathan Hague, £5. No front light on cycle: Graham Eder, £2; Kevin Francis Allen, £2 (no rear red light, costs only): David Bruce Beecroft, £2; Kerry Stanley Burke, £2; David Eder, £2: Key Carolyn McWatt, £2. Overtook vehicle at pedestrian crossing: Aureka Cowan, £6; Keith Anthony McGoverne, £B. Unable to stop in half clear distance: Hoghton Hughes, £7; Geoffrey John Elder, £5 (no driver’s licence, £10);. Pearl Teresa Lemming, £3. Failed to stop at school patrol sign: Dorothy Maude Munnerley, £6. Failed to signal intention to puli out from kerb: Thomas Scott McMillan. £5. Noisy vehicle: Frederick Hicks, £7 10s. Failed to notify change of ownership: Grant McVane Ritchie, £5. Windscreen not kept clear: Anthonius Cornelus Mania Wennekers, £5. Cycled on footpath: Larry Noel Britt, £1 10s. Parking offences: Paul Joseph Blackett, £1: Basil James Butler, £3: Kevin Stanley Hanafin, £3; Albert William McClelland.. £1: Robert Leonard Milne, £3: Gordon Robert Watt, £1; Graham David Weir, £l. CIVIL CASES (Before Mr K. H. J. Headifen, S.M.) JUDGMENT SUMMONSES The following orders were made on judgment summonses: R. J. Hurst, labourer. Breezes road, to pay T. P. Rae £7B 5s 6d. in default 81 days’ imprisonment, warrant suspended while £2 a week is paid; Bernard James - Cummins, bricklayer, Oakhurst place, to pay Weedons Garage and Farm Engineering £43 Ils 5d (45 days or £1 a week); A. Meikle. labourer. Blakes road. Templeton, to pay J. W. Horne and Company, Ltd., £162 6s Gd i three months or £1 a week); Barry John Guest, salesman. Ferry road, to pay Laurence David Coles £67 <69 days or £1 a week); R. Henley, clerk. Bethel crescent, to pay Christchurch Industries. Ltd., £29 7s 5d <32 days or £2 a week).

E. E. Osborne, coalman, care of Burnwell Coal Company. Ltd., to pay C. Lyons £49 3s 6d <5l days or £1 a week): I L. Johnstone. bus driver. Champion street, to pay I F. and M. O’Donnell £72 <74 days or £1 a week): M. C. Chappell, salesman, care of Robert Francis. Ltd., to pay Parade Garage £4l 10s lOd <44 days or £1 10s a week): John William Davies, labourer. Vancouver street. 1o pay New Zealand Farmers’ Co-operative Association of Canterbury. Ltd., £6 17s 2d (eight days or £1 a week): G. Bom. labourer. Eureka street, to pay E. King. Ltd.. £35 5s <37 days or £1 a week).

Sydney Evans, painter. Fatima street, to pay Gordon and Gotch, Ltd.. £4 10 s (five days or £1 a week): F. Hamilton, trading as Perfect Gardeners. Langdons road, to pay E. Elliott and Company, Ltd.. £3 14s (four days or £1 a week); Paul George Maurice, labourer, Somerfield street, to pay T. H. Davies and Company. Ltd.. £l3 10s 6d <l5 days or £1 a week); D. McGirr, labourer, Ensign street, to pay Reefton Boatmans Coal Supply £7 IPs lid (nine days or £1 a week): F. G. Prangley, labourer, care of British Hotels Lyttelton,

to pay Gayhurst Garden Florists £2 16s 6d (three months or £1 a week). A Wise, engineer. Slater street to pay Shirley Motors £5 os 9d (six days or £1 a week); A. Me ; Car thy. dealer. Gasson street. . to pay H. Jarden and Muller, £29 2s 6d <3l days or £2 a week): F. 1 Hamilton, land scape gardener. Langdons road, to pay G. McDonald and Son. Ltd.. £36 5s <3B days or £1 a week): H. Taylor, workman.) Cox street, to pay New Zealand | Farmers’ Co-operative Association of Canterbury. Ltd., £2l 13s Id <24 days or £1 a week): W. Warhurst. Marine parade. New Brighton, to pay Milford Sound Refreshment Rooms and Service Station £52 8s 4d <55 days or £1 a week); P. Hadfield, shop assistant. Cqshel street, to pay' Whangarei Rental Cars. Ltd . £7 5s <eight days or £1 10s a week). POSSESSION ORDERS lan George James Rutledge, salesman, and Reida Rutledge, his wife, were ordered to give up possession of a house at 16 Bra bourne road, to the State Advances Corporation of New Zealand because of a failure to make mortgage payments and to'pay costs amounting to £5 2s. James Arnold Day., carpenter, and June Elva Day, his wife, were ordered to give i p possession of a house at 99 Avon dale road, to State Advances Corporation of New Zealand be cause of a failure to make mortgage payments and to pay costs amounting to £5 2s. Mervyn Kenneth Scarlett, grocer s assistant, was ordered to .give up possession of a house at 66 Checketts ; venue, to the State Advances Corporation of New Zealand because of a failure to make mortgage pay ments and to pay costs amount ing to. £5 2s. A. E. Black, workman, was ordered to give up possession of a tenement at 43 Swanns road to R. Simpson and to pay arrears of rent and costs ; amounting to £36 2s. AN ADVERTISEMENT tn “The Press” CLASSIFIED COLUMNS will soon convert those no longer used articles into ready 'cash. For quick, simple, and easy selling, try the Classifieds DIAL 50-199 XNY TIME