MAGISTRATE’S COURT Two Burglars Remanded For Sentence

Press, Volume CV, Issue 30983, 12 February 1966, Page 22

MAGISTRATE’S COURT Two Burglars Remanded For Sentence

Bernard Cyril Johnston, aged 31. a truck driver, and Ronald Alfred Caldwell, aged 29, a lifter, both pleaded guilty when they appeared before Mr E. A. Lee, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday jointly charged with breaking and entering the Papanui Working Men’s Chib on February 10. Both were convicted and remanded till February 17 for sentence. Sergeant J. M. Phelan said the Papanui police patrol, in the light of a spotlight, saw Johnston crouching in the budding. Johnston was caught after attempting to make off through a hole in one of the windows. Two chisels found on the premises Johnston had identified as belonging to him. Caldwell was found in a car parked nearby. He said he was standing near the broken window when he heard the police car enter the property, and left. SUSPENDED SENTENCE Alick Edward Black, aged 46, a carpenter, pleaded guilty to a charge of being unlawfully on the premises of the Y.M.C.A. in Cambridge terrace on February 11. He was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence within six months if called on.

FINED, DISQUALIFIED Bruce Anthony Briggs, aged 24, a storeman (Mr R. P. Thompson), pleaded not guilty to charges of careless use of a motor-vehicle on December 24, failing to ascertain damage after an accident, and failing to stop after an accident. He was convicted on each charge, fined £7, and his licence cancelled for three months on the charge of failing to stop, fined £5 on the charge of careless use, and convicted and discharged on the charge of failing to ascertain damage. DANGEROUS DRIVING

Henry Omihi Baker, aged 67, a retired farmer (Mr A. D. Holland), pleaded guilty to a charge of dangerous driving ih Roydvaie avenue on December 12. He was fined £2O, and his driver’s licence was cancelled for one year. CARELESS USE Joseph Tobias Slattery, aged 20, an electronics technician (Mr R. P. Thompson), pleaded not guilty to a charge of careless use of a motorvehicle on December 13. He was convicted and fined £3. OTHER TRAFFIC CASES In other traffic prosecutions brought by the police, convictions were entered and fines Imposed as follows: Dangerous driving: Robert Stanley Annear, £l5, disqualified for one year (falling to stop at lights, £lO, and an added six months' disqualification). Careless use: Leslie Roy Carter, £5; George Murray Waerea, £lO, disqualified for 14 days; Roger Patrick Dixon, £l2, disqualified for three months; David James Fenton, £l2, disqualified for six months; Brian Conrad Osbourne, £7. Failed to stop at stop sign; John Graham GoodcMffe, £l2, disqualified for two months; Helen Thomas, £B.

Failed to give way to right: Rosemary Ethel Graham, £8; Donald Clyde Grant Cameron, £8; Peter Don Gibson, £6; Alan Roger Boult, £8; Brian Thomas Gardner, £8; Neil Herbert Rae,

£lO (no warrant of fitness, £5) Brian Albert Williams, £B.

No driver's licence: Alan George Fordham, £5; Thelma Evelyn Swanson, £5 (driving over railway crossing in path of train, £7).

Failed to report damage: Ivan Major Illing, costs: Noel George Delbridge Green. £B. disqualified for three months.

Proceeding from stop sign before way was clear; Edna Mavis Williams, £7.

Drove without glasses: Royce Terry Young, £lO, disqualified for nine months commencing on termination of present disqualification (using driver's licence with words erased, £10).

Unregistered vehicle: Robert James Woodcock, £2 (no warrant of fitness, convicted and discharged). Exceeding 30 miles an hour: Ross Moana Blakely, £3 (no driver’s licence, £1).

Failed to give way at giveway sign: Maurice James Man. £l2, disqualified for three months.

No warrant of fitness: Graham Douglas Annett, £1: Hugh Douglas Annett, £1; Larry John Everest, convicted and ordered to pay costs; Tom Sabin Pasley, £2.

Supplied false information: Rodney Robert Hardy. £10; An drew Ernest Hurst, £lO.

Permitted unlicensed person to drive: Samuel Alexander Swanson, £3.

(Before Mr K. H. J. Headifen

S.M.). IDLE AND DISORDERLY

The accused was charged under the preventive section of the Act, said Senior-Sergeant G. M. Cleary when an unemployed laundress, Joyce Agnes Vivian, aged 20 (Mr D. M. Palmer), appeared on a charge of being idle and disorderly on February 10 in that she had insufficient lawful means of support. She pleaded not guilty. She was convicted and remanded on bail to February 17 for sentence.

The accused had been arrested because it was felt that her mode of life could be the beginning of a criminal career, said Senior-Sergeant Clearv.

Mr Palmer submitted that while the accused had been unemployed at the time, she was to start work on Mondav. The Magistrate said he was satisfied that the evidence was sufficient to warrant a conviction. “We want to stop the rot before it goes any further," he said. CHARGES DISMISSED A charge of using a motorvehicle carelessly in Bealev avenue on October 27 against Claude Maxwell Manhire, aged 65, a company manager (Mr G. W. Alexander), was dismissed. He pleaded not guilty. A charge of failing to give way to the right on November 14. against Harold Peter Brown, aged 23, an electrician <Mr L. M. O’Reilly), was dismissed. Brown pleaded not guilty. FINED £5 It was his first accident in 3S years of driving, said William Galbraith Smith, aged 61. a packerman (Mr L. M. O'Reilly), who was convicted and fined £5 when he pleaded guilty to a charge of failing to give way to the right on December 4. (Before Mr H. J. Evans, S.M.) CARELESS DRIVING Stuart John Vincent Fox. aged 21, a clerk (Mr M. J. Glue), was convicted and fined £2 on a charge of careless driving on September 30. He pleaded not guilty. On a charge of having no warrant of fitness on the same date he pleaded guUty and was convicted and fined £2 10s. FAILED TO GIVE WAY On a charge of failing to give way to the right on October 16, William Thomas Frost, aged 41, a rubber worker (Mr L. M. O’Reilly), was convicted and fined £l2 10s. He pleaded not guilty. FINED £lO Robert Lane Melrose, aged 26, a field representative (Mr G. R. Lascelles), was convicted and fined £lO on a charge of careless driving on October 29. He pleaded not guilty.