MAGISTRATES COURT Youth Fined £40 For Driving While Disqualified

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31086, 15 June 1966, Page 7

MAGISTRATES COURT Youth Fined £40 For Driving While Disqualified

"Next time—gaol,” Mr E. A. Lee, S.M., said in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday when he fined Edward Patrick Lepper, aged 17, a workman, £4O on a charge of driving while disqualified on May 27. The period of disqualification of Lepper’s licence was extended by one year. A traffic officer saw Lepper driving a car in Worcester street and knew he was a disqualified driver, said Traffic Officer A. Laing. Lepper had been disqualified for six months on February 22 for driving without a licence and he had another conviction for the same offence on March 30. DISQUALIFIED DRIVER Brian Anthony Stuart, aged 18, a storeman-driver (Mr A. Hearn), pleaded guilty to a charge that on May 22 he used a car carelessly and that he drove while disqualified. On the charge of careless use, Stuart was convicted and fined £l5, and he was disqualified from driving for three months. On the charge of driving while disqualified he was convicted, fined £35, and disqualified for one year, the disqualification terms to be cumulative.

Traffic Officer Laing said that about 7.35 p.m. on May 22 Stuart was driving south along Colombo street and came up behind a traffic patrol car. He made a violent turn to the left into Carlyle street and collided with a car travelling in the opposite direction and forced that car on to a parked car, damaging it also. Mr Hearn said that Stuart’s own vehicle was not insured and he realised that he faced a substantial period of disqualification. He asked the Magistrate to take the view that it had been stupid and thoughtless conduct, but that otherwise he was not a bad type of youth. “I suppose this has brought home to you the perils of disobeying Court orders” the Magistrate said before imposing the penalty. SENTENCE DEFERRED “But for your counsel’s submissions I would have sent you to prison,” said the Magistrate when Shirley Elizabeth Stedman, aged 25, a clerk (Mr P. F. Temper©), appeared for sentence on a charge of theft by failing to account for £517 10s between February 1 and April 1. Sentence was deferred for another week to enable arrangements for restitution to be made. The Magistrate said he had grave doubts whether Stedman’s story was true—in his view the offence was persistent stealing over a long period. Probation would not be imposed until the Court was satisfied full restitution could be made. Stedman was remanded on bail. IDLE AND DISORDERLY A 17-year-old girt, who was found in a bouse in Lincoln road, had hitch-hiked from Dunedin two weeks ago and

had not worked since, said Senior-Sergeant G. M. Cleary when Diana Marie Walsh pleaded guilty to a charge of being idle and disorderly on June 13 in that she had insufficient lawful means of support She was convicted and remanded in custody to June 21 for sentence.

Senior-Sergeant Cleary said no information had yet been received from Dunedin other than that the girl’s parents took no interest in her. ATTEMPTED CONVERSION

Eric Elliot Robinson, aged 19, a cable-laying labourer (Mr R. J. Allan), pleaded guilty to a charge that on May 28 he attempted to take a motor-car unlawfully from Hereford street He was convicted and remanded on bail for sentence on June 17. Sergeant J. M. Phelan said that about 3.25 a.m. on May 28 a constable noticed a man crouching under the dashboard of a car in Hereford street When questioned Robinson said the car was not his, and he did not have the keys for it An investigation had shown that the fuses of the car had been crossed, he said. CHARGE DISMISSED

Hugh Lean Barker, a bus driver (Mr W. F. Brown), pleaded guilty to a charge that in Papanui road he failed to stop at a pedestrian crossing for the school patrol. After hearing submissions from Mr Brown, the Magistrate dismissed the charge under section 42 of the Criminal Justice Act ELEVENTH CONVICTION

John Campbell, aged 30, a labourer, was fined £lO and disqualified from driving for six months on a charge of having no warrant of fitness. He did not appear. Traffic Officer Laing said Campbell had 10 previous convictions for similar offences. FOUND DRUNK

Pleading guilty to a charge of being found drunk in Colombo street on June 13, Thomas William Arthur Clark, aged 39, unemployed, was convicted and fined £3, in default three days’ Imprisonment. He was a statutory second offender. TRAFFIC CHARGES In other traffic prosecutions brought by the Christchurch City Council traffic department, convictions were entered and fines imposed as follows, with costs, £1 10s, on each charge: Speed might have been dangerous: Trevor Allan Dacombe, £B, disqualified for one year (no safety helmet, £1); Warren Michael O’Connell, £B, disqualified for one year (failed to display “L” label, £1); Rex Allan Churton, £l5, and disqualified for one year (drove vehicle not specified on licence, £5). Careless use: Raymond Gatehouse, £lO (no warrant of fitness, £3); Lloyd Whitcombe, £lO.

Exceeded 36 m.p.h.: Alistair Geoffrey Spence, £5: Garry Clarence Gilbert. £4; Ronald Shelley Bennet, £5: William Perce Crighton, £5, and disqualified for one month (no safety helmet, £1; no warrant of fitness, £1; Wayne David Carson, £5; William Ernest Alan Dowie, £5; Graham Robert Hayes, £4;

Richard Campbell, £2; Norman Bradbury Martin, £3; Norman George Smith, £5, and ordered to attend a course of traffic lectures; David Stewart Avent, £4; William McClelland Priest, £5; Nieholaas Yozef Bakker, £4; Edward Bell, £5; Stephen Edward Bland, £4; Raymond James Cairns, £5; Richard George Cockrane. £4; Philip Graham Collins, £4; Brian William Dennis, £4: Paul AUan Dixon, £4; Bertus Antonius Driessen, £4; Mollie Elizabeth Findlay, £4: Winsome Isohel Grant, £4: Myles Wynn Gustofson. £5; Eric Lawson Hann. £4; Jocelyn Valerie Hay, £4; Warwick Andrew Ison, £5: Rex Alexander Johnstone, £4; Eileen Kernahan, £4; Marjorie Mata Leatham, £5; David Albert Mahoney, £4; Malcolm MannerIng, £4: Francis Robert McGovern, £5; lan Ross McMillan, £4; Lauchlan McMillar. £4; Helen Mabel Menee, £4: William Sam Newsome, £5; Mary Elizabeth Nolan, £4: Marie Jane Perger, £4; Malcolm John Pitcairn, £4; Eugene Pureell, £5: Peter Bernard Quinn, £4; Graeme Francis Rhodes, £5; Kenneth William Richardson, £4; Mervyn Louis Robinson, £4; William Alfred Sweeney, £4: Andrew Preston Todd, £5; Morris Reid Wellington, £3; Frank William Wharton. £5; Alan Michael Wills, £4. Failed to stop at compulsory stop: Frederick Ewart Clarke, £lO, disqualified for two months; Robert Johnson Taunt, £5; Bertram O'Connor, £7: Mary Elizabeth Broad, £3; Cecil Wil-

liam Norman Chisholm, £3; Tony Frank Eames, £2; James Patrick Ellis, £4; Denise Inez Evans, £4: Desmond Claude Haines. £4: Hendrick Hendriks, £0: Perry Morris Scott, £5; Kathleen Mary Williamson, £4; Frank Hoddlnd Willis, £2. Failed to give way to the right: Melville David Smith, £lO (no warrant of fitness, £2): Tai Hereora, £8 (no driver’s licence, £5): William Kenneth McFarlane, £8; Graeme Bruce McCaw, £8; Norman Joseph Barrltt, £10; James Desmond Mackie, £B.

Failed to give way at pedestrian crossing: Kenneth Miller,

£O. Insecure load: George McClure, £8; William Frederick Beaumont Sloan, £8; Robert lan James Scobie, £8: John Urquhart, £B. Used unsafe vehicle: Eric Duncan Lamb, £lO, and disqualified for three months: Raymond Hutchinson, costs only. Parking offences: Russell Francis Adams, £3; Marjorie Ursula Annis, £1: Peter Jamieson Beavan, £7; Stephen James Bird, £3; Henry Adrian Brokklng, £3; Russell John Hewlnson, £3; Thomas William Hodder, £3; Peter Ernest Keen. £7; Gavin Edgar William Kinsman, two charges, £3 and £1: Alvyn Thomas Long, £3; George Keith McDonald, £1; Kenneth Sydney Roberts, £1; Yvonne Clarlne Rowland, £1; Joan Eric Scott, £2: Ralph van Vsselteyn, £1; Joseph Melvin Walker, £3; Ewan Anthony Anderson, £1; Noel Bennington, £3. No driver’s licence: Ruth Cecelia Dale, £4; Colin Thomas Baker, £7 10s; Kevin Stanley Prouting, £5. No heavy traffic licence; Murray Pimm, £5. No warrant of fitness: John Morris Noble, £5; Denis Robert Quinn, £5; Charles Phillip Tait,

ra. Failed to carry heavy traffic licence: Kevin Aubrey Anderson, £5. Failed to display heavy traffic licence: McKendry 8r05.,. Ltd., £1; New Zealand Express Company, Ltd., £7 Ips. No safety chain: James Lindsay Reeve Davis, £5; Sydney Dennie Marshall, £5; Lawrence Harry Nathan, £5; Peter Edwin James Tyson, £5 (no warrant of fitness, £1); Gerrit Westerink, £5. No lights on cycle: Allster Field, £2 (no brakes. £1); Patrick Frederick Mullally, £3 (supplied false information, £3). Insufficient lights: Ronald John Coulston, £7 10s, and disqualified for six months (no warrant of fitness, £5); Owen Lawrence Herbert Green, £3; Graeme Ronald Harris, £3; Richard Shmirer, £2; Anthony George Weatsell, £5. Insufficient brakes: Mervyn James Kedzlle, £B. Failed to produce driver’s licence: Lyall Lewis, £1; William Jerrold Overton, 10s. Extraneous words on licence: Michael Bernard Browne, £5. Failed to supply information: David Arthur Roland Mcßeth, £4; Richard George Brittenden,

£5. Exceeded axle weight: Noel Leslie Jarden, £5 (exceeded heavy traffic licence, £3). Failed to wear vision aids: Larry Reginald Hammond, £5. Failed to display registration plate: Allred Rickard Mayne. £2 (failed to display warrant of fitness, £1); John Parmee, £3. . Carried pillion passenger on L plates: Neville James McIntosh, £3. Used warning device unreasonably: John Francis Pagel, £5. (Before Mr G. A. Nicholls, . S.M.) FINED £33 10« Robert Thomas Webster, aged 22, unemployed, was fined a total of £3B 10s and ordered to pay Court costs £7 10s after being convicted of a series of traffic offences. Webster was charged that on March 31 he used a motor vehicle carelessly in Durham street and that he had no driver’s licence. On the charge of careless use he was fined £7 10s and for having no driver’s licence he was fined £lO. Webster was also charged that on April 21 he failed to stop at the Bealey avenue-Park terrace traffic lights and at the Bealey avenue-victoria street lights when required to do so and that he had failed to produce his driver’s licence. On the first charge of failing to stop at the traffic lights he was fined £7 10s and on the second he was fined £lO and disqualified from driving for six months from Juno 14. He was fined £3 10s for failing to produce his licence. CHARGE DISMISSED lan Raymond Cowell, aged 35, a labourer (Mr E. O. SuUlvan). pleaded not guilty to a charge that on May 28 he assaulted Pour! Cowell hie wife. After Mrs Cowell had Indicated she did not wish to give evidence against her husband, the Magistrate dismissed the charge. FINED £5O Winston Marry Poharama, aged 35, a sewer workman (Mr M. J. Glue), pleaded not guilty to a charge that on May 14 in Hills road he drove a car while under the influence of drink or a drug. He was convicted, fined £5O, and disqualified from driving for three years from June 14. STOLE MATTRESS Robert Michael Franklin, aged 22 an unemployed steward, pleaded not guilty to a charge that on March 15 he stole a double-bed mattress and a drawer of a total value of £4, the property of Keith Duffield. He was convicted and fined £25. TRAFFIC CASES In traffic prosecutions brought by the police convictions were entered and fines imposed as follows, with costs £1 10s on each charge. No warrant of fitness: Noel Dean Trenbath, £2; Brian David Agnew, £3 10s; Edward John Stephens, £3 10s (failed to notify the deputy registrar, £5) Careless use: John Richard Vivian, £lO. Failed to notify, the deputy registrar: Allan Keith Stephens, £5 (no dfcence, £5); Christchurch eft Sales, Ltd., a.

(Before Mr K. H. J. Headlfen, S.M.) FAILED TO GIVE WAY Peter Cyril Wilkins, aged 24, a salesman (Mr J. H. F. Macfarlane), was convicted and fined £5 on a charge that he failed to yield the right of way at the intersection of Kllmore street, Fitzgerald avenue, and Avonside drive at 2.30 p.m. on February 24. He pleaded not guilty. FINED £4 On a charge of failing to comply with traffic lights at the intersection of High and Madras streets on February 18, Robert George Henry Flowers, a driver (Mr R. K. Godfrey), was convicted and fined £4. He pleaded not guilty. CHARGES DISMISSED Robert John Miller, aged 19, a storeman (Mr L. M. O’Reilly), pleaded not guilty to a charge that he drove a motor vehicle carelessly east along Cambridge terrace on February 18. The charge was dismissed. William Owen Harrington, aged 30, a land valuer (Mr A. P. C. Tipping), pleaded not guilty to a charge that he drove a motor vehicle carelessly In Strowan road on March 8. The charge was dismissed. CIVIL CASES (Before Mr H. J. Evans, S.M.) JUDGMENT SUMMONSES The following orders were made on judgment summonses:— H. Seiwood, married woman, Amur! street, to pay Wycola Fruit Supply £9 14s 6d, in default 10 days’ Imprisonment, warrant suspended while 10s a week is paid; T. DtUimore. workman, Gloucester street, to pay Vance Vivian (Christchurch), Ltd., £36 17s Id (five weeks or £1 a week); CoMn A. Morgan, company employee, Havelock street, to pay Brother Sewing Machine Corporation (N.Z.) Ltd. £l2 5s (two weeks or £1 a week); P. Stenhouse, labourer. Ferry road, to pay T. W. Brian £lB 10s (three weeks or £1 a week).

W. J. Shaw, worker, Warbllngton street, to pay McPhail and Fisher, Ltd. £66 14s 5d (nine weeks or £1 10s a week); D. Brooks, labourer Hollyford avenue, to pay Papanui Timber Company, Ltd. £3 Ils (five days); T. Simons, Pinehurst crescent, to pay G. A. Harris, Ltd. £5 13s (seven days Or £1 a week); R. M. McDonald, married woman. Church square, to pay K. A. Anderson £177 10s (three months or £1 a week); Leonard Maunsell Davies, shoe factory employee, to pay J. I. S. Allen £7B (11 weeks or £1 10s a week).

G. Lewis, retired, the Brae, St. Andrews Hill to pay Wood, Burn and Company £ll 18s (12 days or £1 10s a week); P. G. Stenhouse, car salesman. Matlock street, to pay Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand, Ltd., £427 Is 3d (three months or £1 a week); C. J. Griffiths, workman, Ranfuriy street, to pay Weeks, 1963, Ltd. £l4 4s 8d (two weeks or 10s a week); W. Rhind, factory employee, Hazeldean road, to pay Corrie Marquerite Petrie £25 5s (four weeks or £1 a week)

U. Whitelaw, widow, Clyde road, to pay Lace Web Furnishers, Ltd- £l7 10s 2d (two weeks or 5s a week); N. King, married woman, Glenfield crescent, to pay J. Linton £24 6s (three weeks or 5s a week); J. King, carpenter, Ontario place, to pay the New Zealand Carpenters’ Union £l2 15s (two weeks or 10s a week); B. D. Lawrence, carpenter, Tenby place, to pay the Carpenters’ Union £l5 (15 days or 10s a week). O. S. Livingstone, painter, Attlee crescent, to pay Sunderland Bros, Ltd. £49 9s 6d (eeven' weeks or £1 a week); R. G. Price Bordesley street, to pay A. S. Cooper £26 15s (four- weeks or 10s a week); William E. Harper, labourer, Aldershot street, to pay Fletcher Steel and Engineering Company, Ltd. £33 7s 9d (five weeks or 10s a week); Frederick D. Young, sawmiiler, Rowan avenue, to pay Horsleys, a division of Butler Bros., Ltd. £l7 14s 2d (20 days or 10s a week). B. J. Berrett, carpenter, Colombo street, to pay Carpenters’ Union £24 5s (three weeks or 10s a week); T. Griffiths, workman, Marshlands road, to pay R. Gouiden Packaging. Ltd. £l2 15s 2d (15 days or 10s a week); C. Van Der Lee, workman, Aorangi road, to pay Robert Francis, Ltd. £27 (30 days or 10s a week): A. N. Nisbet, agent, Clarendon terrace to pay Whitcombe and Tombs, Ltd. £5l Ils 8(1 (seven weeks or 10s a week). Clarence Morgan Davies, painter, Heath street, to pay Marlborough County Council £9 12s lOd (10 days or £2 a week) and Terry Motors, Ltd. £l2 17s 6d (14 days or 10s a week); P. Beadle, Gloucester street, to pay Noel Hope £4 9s 8d (five days or £2 a week). POSSESSION ORDER Trevor Hughes, baker, was ordered to give up possession of premises at the corner of Woodham road and Gloucester street to Ellen Thirga ColMns and to pay arrears of rent and costs amounting to £159 10s.