Magistrate’s Court Motor-Cyclist Fined £2O And Disqualified

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30940, 22 December 1965, Page 10

Magistrate’s Court Motor-Cyclist Fined £2O And Disqualified

A motor-cydlst who eluded two traffic officers in petrol cars who chased him through city streets at speeds retching 80 miles an hour was fined £2O and disqualified from -driving for 18 months tor Mr E. A. Lee, SM., tn the Magistrate's Court yesterday. .Wdltam Anthony Bell, aged 18, a welder, was charged with driving at a speed which might have been dangerous in Avalon street and Beoley avenue on December 11. He pleaded guilty. Traffic Sergeant H. J. McMorran said that at 5.55 p.m. on December 11 Traffic Officer J. Pickett observed the defendant riding his motorcycle east on Beaiey avx je over the Colombo street intersection at an estimated speed of 35 miles an hour. He gave chase.

The defendant turned and, seeing the patrol car's flashing light accelerated away. The patrol car reached 80 miles an hour in an unsuccessful attempt to catch him.' said Sergeant McMorran. In Avalon street the patrol ear reached 65 miles an hour, but the motor-cycle was still putting away.

A second patrol car gave chase ait the T intersection of Hills road and Avalon street. The defendant’s motor-cycle reached an estimated 50 miles an hour in North Avon road.

The patrol cars were unable to catch the defendant, but detective in Stanmore road saw a motor-cycle being driven erratically and took its registration number from which it was later found that the machine belonged to the defendant, said Sergeant McMorran. PREVENTIVE DETENTION Royce Terry Young, aged 17, a workman (Mr C. B. Atkinson), was sentenced to six months* periodic preventive detention at the 3ristol street work centre when he appeared for sentence on a charge of attempted theft of two gallons of petrol valued at 7s on October 7. FINED £lO Charged with driving at a speed which might have been dangerous in Hargood street and Ferry road on September 20, Malcolm Paul Shying, aged 18, a spray painter, was convicted and fined £lO and his licence was cancelled for one year. He pleaded guilty. INDECENT ASSAULT ’ Tamai Mathew Kahukuranui, aged 18, an apprentice carpenter, was convicted and remanded in custody to December 23 when he appeared on a charge of indecently assaulting a girl aged five on December 20. He pleaded guilty. REMANDED Colin Malcolm Hardaker, aged 27, a driver's assistant, was remanded on bail to January 14 when he appeared on a charge of theft of £2 9s 6d on October 23. Charged with driving while under the influence of drink or drugs on Riccartoi* avenue on December 20. Thomas John Fitzgerald, aged 36, a home appliance firm manager, was remanded on bail tn January 20.

Charged with driving a truck on Wainoni road on December 21 while under the influence of drink or drugs. Norman McLeland Shaw, aged 54, an accountant, was remanded to today on bail. Brien Sydney Johns, aged 17, a workman, was remanded on bail to December 22 when he appeared on a

charge of driving while disqualified on Clarendon terrace on December 18. CIVIL CASKS (Before Mr K. H. J. Headlfen. S.M.) JUDGMENT SUMMONSES The following order* were made on judgment »ummonsei:— N. A. Cumming, workman. Efltngham street, to pay Beath and Company. Ltd. is. in default nine days' Imprisonment, warrant suspended wMle II a week is paid: L. Kerr, labourer. Avalon street, to pay B. A. Murray I 3« 14s «d (33 days or fl a week): Arthur McCarthy, scrap metal dealer. Tancred street, to pay the estate of Thomas Andrew Clare 144 13* (4* days or tl a week): Peter J. Craham. labourer. Lyttelton street, to pay William Evan Charles tt 8s 7d (eight day* or fl a week): Peter C. Gearon, driver. Clearbrook street, to pay Chancery Tailors. Ltd. £9 (10 day* or fl a week); J. Stokes, worker, Blver road, to pay Elaine Moody, Ltd. 114 (10 day* or tl a week). E. Box. labourer. Mundy* road, to pay Misa Feaver Florist tt 13* (eight day* or fl a week): J. A. Clarke, spinster. Tong* street, to pay Constance Gee. Ltd. £9 (10 days or £1 a week): J. H. Haereroa. labourer. Bower avenue, to pay Household Drapery, Ltd. 142 Its 2d (44 days or tl a week): D. L. Walters, plasterer, Brockenhurst street, to pay J. B. Yates, Ltd. £29 7s 8d <3l days or 10s a week); L. F. Coles, printer, Santa Rosa avenue, to pay D.1.C.. Ltd. £3l 18s 8d (33 days or £1 a week): Fanny Elisabeth Barker, married woman, Wilton crescent, to pay Calder Mackay Company, Ltd. £lB 14s lOd (19 days or 5* a week). L. K. Small. workman. Hanmer street, to pay G. L. and w. T. Garlick, trading at Garlick Bros. £l7 18s Rd (19 days or £1 a week): C. Barlow, workman. Wesley street. Kaiapol, to pay Hokitika Service Station, Ltd. £lB 19* 9d (18 days or 10s a week): J. Partleton. workman. Buchanans road, to pay the New Zealand Express Company. Ltd. 10* (two days). POSSESSION ORDERS M. McLaughlin, housewife, was ordered to give up possession of premise* at 43 Clare road to R. G. Falconer and to pay arrears of rent and costs amounting to £3B 10s. J. E. Williams, printer, was ordered to give up possession of a tenement at 33 Kent street to W. T. Murray, Ltd., and to pay arrears of rent and costs amounting to £72 17s.