MAGISTRATE’S COURT Driver Fined £20, Disqualified For Two Years

Press, Volume CV, Issue 31062, 18 May 1966, Page 8

MAGISTRATE’S COURT Driver Fined £20, Disqualified For Two Years

If the defendant proposed to use the roads as a raceway, he would not get any concession from the Court, Mr K. H. J. Headifen, S.M., said in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday, after Stephen Michael O’Brian, aged 20, a driver (Mr R. G. Blunt), had pleaded guilty to driving in a manner that might have been dangerous.

The Court was told that at 1.05 a.m. on March 20 the defendant was seen driving in Humphreys drive at an estimated speed of 55 miles an hour. A traffic officer chased him for three miles and a half at speeds up to 70 miles an hour.

In fining O’Brian £2O and cancelling his licence for two years, the Magistrate said this was a case of reckless driving and there could not be a worse example of a driver treating his responsibilities with more contempt. COSTS

Franciscus Jacobus Devisser, aged 26, a fitter and turner, was convicted and ordered to pay costs after a rehearing of a charge of failing to wear glasses. Devisser, conducting his own defence, said that the driver’s licence issued to him by the Manukau City Council had the condition that he wear glasses while driving stamped on his licence when he did not wear glasses. He got his licence not long after he arrived in New Zealand, with the aid of an interpreter. Devisser also produced an optician's report. In ordering Devisser to pay costs, the Magistrate said that until February 12, when Devisser was stopped by a traffic officer, this condition was quite legal, although it had now been rectified.

DISQUALIFIED DRIVERS Howard Desmond Hanson, aged 24, unemployed, pleaded guilty to a charge of driving while disqualified. It was said that this was his fifth such offence, and that he was already disqualified until 1971. He was convicted and remanded on bail for sentence.

Gary John Vallance Croft, aged 26, a salesman, and Eric Alfred Christenson, aged 24, a pie-cart assistant, also pleaded guilty to driving while disqualified and were remanded

OTHER TRAFFIC CASES In' other traffic prosecutions brought by the Transport Department convictions were entered and fines Imposed as follows, with costs £1 10s or each charge:— Exceeded 30 miles an hour: Patrick John Ryan (two charges), £6, £6; Neville Janies Burney, £l5: John Lindsay Parore, £3 (no driver's licence, three charges, fined £5 on each charge, disqualified for IS months), (supplied false information. three charges, fined £; on each charge); John Ztnzat Harris, £5; Anthony Dagfin Coberger, £5 (no safety chain attached to trailer, £2); Kathleen Badteary, £4; Robert Bromley Jones, £5: Donald Vernon Parry, £6? Ken Metewand, £5: Avon Maxwell Adams, £5; James Romerick Paterson, £8: Alan James Brizzle, £8; Frederick Murphy, £5 (failed to produce driver’s licence. £5); Leonard Victor Foord, £2: Colcr Leslie Knight, £2; AlasdaHr Thomas Black, £5; Arthur Neville Boyce, £3; Robert James Butts, £6 (no safety helmet, £3); AKar James Coates, £5: Gerald Allen Eskett, £6; Graeme John Feierabend, £5; Mervyn Paul Kelly, £5; John Bernard Kennedy. £6; Robin Mansfield Kirk, £8; Thomas Kirner, £5, disqualified for six months (false and misleading information, £10): Rex Trevor Krahagen, £6; James Robert Kyte, £5 (no safety helmet, £3): John Patrick Larmer, £6, disqualified two months; Owen Edward Lawrence, £8: Michael Woodhouse Lee, £6; Robin George Mayston, £5; Michael Hutchison Maze, £6, failed to produce driver's ’.licence, £3; Michael Tazwei'.' Newton, £5; Albert Frederick Orme, £5 (failed to stop at com pu'lsory stop, £5); Colleen Donna Patterson, £5; Gary James Paw son, £7, disqualified for one month (no safety helmet, £3); Richard AsW.ey Roberts. £3. ordered to attend three traffic lectures; David Paul Rogers, £5; Percy Scott, £3 (failed to pro duce driver’s licence. £3); Terry James Swanson. £6; Murray' James Watson, £5; Hendricus Hubertus Wideler, £5; Barry Severin Williams, £6: Ruth Lilian Wilson, £6. Careless use: William Joseph Watson, £10; Alwyn Garth Hammond, £8; John Bruce Tait, £5; Elsie Ata Hlko, £6: Robert Walker £B. No warrant of fitness: Aubrey Hay, £lO (no warrant of fitness for trailer £2, no safety chain attached to trailer, £3); Cedric Wright Armstrong, £4; John Norman Jones, £3; Monica Mary Loffley, £3; Mana K. Malcolm, £4: Ronald William Pickett, £l3. Failed to supply Information; Geoffrey Kent Bell, £l2. Failed to keep vehicle to warrant of fitness standard: M. C. Burke, Ltd., £B. Failed to keep left: Leslie Gordon Pateman, £lO. Failed to carry vehicle authority: Templeton Transport, Ltd., £5. Failed to comply with traffic lights: Arvids Edgars Altments, £B, disqualified for one month: Patrick Aaron Bourke, £10: James Peterson. £B, disqualified for three months. Failed to give way to right: Charles Alec Roddon, £8; Arthur Henry Joyce, 6; Athol Leicester Parker, £B. Failed to stop for school patrol: Rita Marjorie Joines, £5, ordered to attend traffic lectures: Raymond Henry Herbert Hole, £5. Drove In a manner which might have been dangerous: John Gary Tlpler, £l5, disqualified for 12 months. No heavy traffic licence: Patrick Francis Hughes, £4; lan Mitchell, £5; John Grey, £5, disqualified for six months (no driver’s licence £5, no certificate of fitness £3); Harold Vivian Marrlot, £8; Denis Aubrey Newell, £5. Carrying passenger other than astride motor-cycle: Philllpe Robert Andre de Spa, £2. Failed to give way at pedestrian crossing: Robert Daniel Hema, £B.

Speed might have been dangerous: Brent Frederick Aldridge, £l5, disqualified for 18 months (no warrant fitness £3, registration plate not affixed £2, failed to display warrant of fitness £1); Ronald Daley, £25, dis qualified for two years. Unable to stop in distance be tween vehicles: John Plasket Selby, £2. Failed to notify change of ownership: Ainslie Frank Varcoe, £3; Hornby Motors, Ltd., £8 Insecure load: Paul Kevin Dellow, £10; Barry Smith, £lO (failing to produce driver’s licence, £4). No rear red light on cycleGraham Doyle Copp, £2. Failed to stop at compulsory stop: Robert Docherty, £4; Christopher John Gidall, £8; Morris Hoxman, £7; Ra Kahui, £7; Jack Sanderson, £6; Michael Vaughan, £7. Carried passenger on L plates: Lance Alec Farrar, £3 (not displaying L licence label, £3). Insufficient lights: Glenn Russell Clarke. £8; Alan Bevan McDonald, £B. Failed to comply with road markings: Ray Robert Harrison, £6, ordered to attend course of three lectures. Failed to wear vision aids: Gary Frederick Hargrave, £7.

Pedestrian failed to comply with traffic lights: Philip Maynard Brain, £5. Noisy vehicle: Christopher Meyrell Calvert, £lO. No safety chain attached: Norman Albert Lawrence, £4; Alfred James Trevor Challis, £4. Parking offences: Graham Edmund Pilkington, £4: Stanley Ross Williams, £2: Leo James Wilson, £5; lan Donald Arnott, £5. Unlicenced vehicle: Ren Bernadus Van der Meys. £3. Proceeding from stop sign before way was clear: Ronald Terrence Winter, £7. Failed to give way at traffic lights: Oriwa Huhara Ropata, £B. (Before Mr E. A. Lee, S.M.) CHARGE REDUCED Kevin George Hames, aged 22, a company representative (Mr R, G. Blunt), was convicted and fined £lO on a charge of exceeding 30 miles an hour. Hames pleaded not guilty to a charge of driving at a speed which might have been dangerous and after hearing the evidence the Magistrate reduced the charge. Hames pleaded guilty to the new charge. Traffic Officer W. J. Noster said he checked Hames’s sneed at 49 miles an hour on Pages road at 12.44 a.m. on February 20. (Before Mr H. Rosen, S.M.) FINED £lO Clive George Webber, aged 27. a manager, was convicted and fined £lO, and disqualified for 12 months when he pleaded not guilty to a charge of driving at a speed which might have been dangerous. Traffic Officer W. J. Noster said that he checked Webber at 50 miles an hour in Linwood avenue at 7.30 a.m. on February 28. Webber was represented’by Mr A. R Cottrell. CIVIL CASES (Before Mr E. A. Lee. S.M ) JUDGMENT SUMMONSES The following orders were, made on iudgment summonses: M. A. Bayard, factory hand. Mayfair street, to nay Wrights Washing Machine Sales and Service £8 18s, in default 10 days’ Imprisonment, warrant suspended while £1 a week iis paid; William Edward Francis, carnenter, Ensign street, to pay Masons Garage, Ltd. £2l 12s 9d <23 days or fl a week); S. Kovacs, upholster, Clissold street, to pay Victoria Service Station and Garage, Ltd.. £l7 6s 9d (19 days or £1 a week): T. C. Rogers, baker, Colina street, to pay the Investment Cornoration of Canterbury, Ltd , £94 (three months or £8 a month). J. Hoare, workman, Armagh street, to nay Antony’s (Canterbury), Ltd., £l2 Is ,9d (13 days or 10s a week); Mervyn Francis Webb, lubricating bay assistant, Godley avenue, to pay the Post Office £1 10s (three days): Thomas Edward Franklin, labourer, Bordesley strpet, to pay the Post Office £4 6s 6d (six days); R. Ramage worker. Renwick place, to pay Reese Bros., Ltd., £ll 11s lid (13 days or £1 a week); J. A. Beran, driver, Banbury street, to pay Isons Portraits £5 Ils (seven days). J. Kihl, workman, Blankney street, to pay Television Installation Service and Company, Ltd., £7 Is 9d (nine days); John Albert Beran, driver, Banbury street to pay Alloy .Steel (N.Z.), Ltd.. £6 15s 7d (eight days); M. Malcolm, labourer. Bower avenue, to pay Amalgamated Tele Hire, Ltd , £26 17s 8d (30 days or £1 a week): W. J. Gwatkins, labourer, Dunbars road, to pay P. Z. Harris and Associates £9 Is (10 days or £1 a week); G. P. Hall, workman, Palmers road, to pay Guthrie Bowron and Company, Ltd. £2 5s (three days). B. Newall, factory hand. Yarmouth street, to pay Aitken and Gillespie, Ltd., £23 18s (25 days or £1 a week); G. E. Holtham, salesman, Ebony street, to pay Walkers Services, Ltd., £l9 17s 6d (22 days or 10s a week); Thomas Poulsen, labourer, Morley street to pay Modernwear Drapery (1963) Ltd., £3O 4s 7d (33 days or £1 a week); D. H. Spence, workman, Kew place, to pay Consolidated Concrete, Ltd., £37 (40 days or £1 a week); P. Counihan, married woman. McLellan place, to pay Bunts Florists £4 14 s (six days or 5s a week).

lan Gardiner, barman, Trumans road, to pay Donald Haymond Bannan and Daphne Lois Bannan £l5 13s (17 days or £1 a week); G. Alexander workman, Stanmore road, to pay Glen Service Station, Ltd., £22 7s (25 days or £1 a week); Shirley Russell, married woman, Halsey street, to pay James Smith, Ltd., £2l (25 days or 10s a week).

POSSESSION ORDER Mary Louise MacDonald, housewife, was ordered to give up possesson of a tenement at 25 Church square to the State Advances Corporation of New Zealand and to pay arrears of rent and costs amounting to £l9 14s lOd.

Decimal currency will be introduced in New Zealand in July, 1967 Recommended con version rates from 5s to £1 are as follows:

5s 50c LSs SI 30 6s 60c 14S SI 40 7s 70C 15s SI 50 8s 80c 16s £1 60 98 90c 17s $1.70 10s SI 18s $1.80 Us SI. 10 19s $1 90