MAGISTRATE’S COURT Oman Fined £40 For Giving False Fire Alarms

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31123, 28 July 1966, Page 15

MAGISTRATE’S COURT Oman Fined £40 For Giving False Fire Alarms

“T regard these offences not only as stupid in the extreme but also seriously criminal,” Mr E. A. Lee, S.M., said in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday when Valerie Ann Bell Henderson, aged 22, a manufacturing machinist, appeared for sentence on five charges of giving false fire alarm calls from street boxes.

Henderson was fined a total of £4O and was admitted to probation for 18 months. She was not represented by counsel and had nothing to say. "The law regards these as particularly serious offences for a number of reasons, principally because fire officers are called away to attend malicious false alarms and dur ing their absence other lives might be at stake,” the Magistrate said. “Firemen have

been killed while attending false fire alarms.” FINED £33 “I was tempted to send you straight to prison and you are only saved from a term in gaol by a favourable report from the probation officer,” the Magistrate said to Anthony John Keating, aged 19, a soldier.

Keating, who was appearing for sentence, was fined £3O on a charge of unlawfully taking a car valued at £llOO, the property of Clement Thomas on July 10. He was fined £3 on a charge of having no driver’s licence and was ordered to pay costs of £1 10s on a charge of stealing registration plates valued at 10s, the property of the Canterbury Tractor Company. (Before Mr E. S. J. Crutchley S.M.) FINED £lO Donald Trevor Gardner, aged S 5. a workman, pleaded guilty to a charge that on March 7 at Dunedin he broke the terms of his probation in that he had failed to report to the probation officer as directed. He was fined £lO. DROVE UNDER INFLUENCE Joseph Allan Reynold, aged a bottle machine operator (Mr G. T. Mahon) pleaded guilty to a charge that on July 12 he drove in Riccarton road while under the Influence of drink or drugs. He was convicted. fined £4O and disqualified for three years. INDECENT ASSAULTS A labourer, aged 38, was convicted and remanded in custody to August 4 for sentence when he pleaded guilty to two charges of indecent assault on girls under the age of 12. One offence occurred on June 1, the other on June 10. The Magistrate granted Interim suppression of the defendant's name on request of his counsel. Mr J B. Stringer, but said there was little hope of final suppression. REMANDED Arvid John Hansen, aged 35, • seaman (Mr P. C. Champion) was remanded till August 16 in custody for the preliminary hearing in Westport of a charge that on July 20 at Westport he unlawuHy killed John O'Hare. TRAFFIC CASES In traffic prosecutions brought by the Transport Department convictions were entered and fines imposed as follows, with costs £1 10s on each charge: Exceeded 30 m.p.h.: Arthur Lowry Penn, £6; John Richard Leslie Morrison, £6; Denis Leslie Breeze, £4; John Harvey Coplin Smith, £4; Graeme John Newberry, £4; Dawson Joseph Cunningham. £8; Derek Harley Bond, £10; Peter Ronald Miller, £10: David George Ellis, £5 (exceeded 30 m.p.h. with no safety ?, e , me 4’ no wal rant of fitness. £i); Cecil Geoffrey Humphries, £a: Jan Gerald Hutton, £5: Russell Allan Kerr, £10: Noel Kenneth Spicer, £6; Mary Helen Tocker, £4; Peter James Wilson, £4: Michael Edgar Jones, £4; Ronald Cowden, £5; Ray William

Gardner, £5; Colin Victor Hun. 'ar, £4; John Russell Jenman, £4: John Maxwell King. £2; Mars?.!n^ Ly . n,on Te Au Reuben, £2; Michael Edward Summer, £10: Michael Fane Vernon, £4; John Murray Whitaker, £6; David Grahame Allport. £6; Arlpen Bln n B' £2 : Ernest James Blair. £10: Graeme John Belk. £8 (passed on intersection, £5, disqualified for three months); Robert Michael Boyd, £4 10s, disqualified for three months: Derek William Brunt, £«; Brian Hans Busch, £10; John William Edwards, £6; Anne Maire Harris, Da V, d £3: Barry Gavin Howell. £4: Josephus Johannes Lambermon, £6; Eric p ®T cy “ace, £4; Wayne John Alfred Milne, £6 (failed to produce driver’s licence, £4); Micha© l Allan Mora, £4; Leslie Malcolm Muir, £lO, disqualified for three months: John Joseph Nolan, £10; Michael Richard Pemberton, £4: Gilbert Ronald Richardson, £5; Robin Frederick Seddon, £0; David Alexancerf4« Berwyn Rolston Smith, £8: Sonny James Smitheran, £4; Neville Charles Wooten, £4.

ss m.p.h.; Thomas •an Gill, £3; Terence David Murray John Hugh Jf c ® on ® , d. £7; Ronald Arthur Callaghan, £7; Ronald Lindsay Dohlg. £6; Lyndon Charles Gee. £8; John Howie, £6; Thomas Alexander Lawson. £7; Alexander Reid, £7; John Frederick Rogers, £6. Exceeded 40 m.p.h. with trailer: John Butcher, £6; Norman Thomas Harris. £6; John Raymond Richards, £5. Exceeded 40 tn p h. In a heavy vehicle: Clive William Joseph Walkln, £7 10s; Bernard William Booth, £lO. Exceeded 30 m.p.h. carrying plluion passenger not wearing a safety helmet: John Walter , yron < Trevor Noel Larsen. £2. Exceeded temporary speed "®it: Richard Takirau Pathan, Speed too great to stop In half the clear road: Allan Bruce Wendleborn, £5. Exceeded heavy traffic licence: North Canterburv Transport, Ltd.. £5 (exceeded axle weight. £10); Colin Noel Radford, £2 10s (breach of farmer's heavy traffic licence. £2 10s); Central Carrying Company, Ltd., £3: Oxford Freight, Ltd., £3 (exceeded statutory axle weight. £5); Len Baker and Son. £3; W. A. Brown, Ltd., £5; Farrier Waimak, Ltd., £lO. Exceeded statutory axle weight: Mid-Canterbury Transport, Ltd., £3: Christchurch Ready-Mix Concrete Company, £5; David Caukwell, Ltd., £3: Refrigerated Freight Lines, Ltd.. £2 10s (exceeded heavy traffic licence. £7): R. R. Price, Ltd.. £5: Waimak. Sawmills, Ltd. (two charges). £5 and £5; R. C. Horsley, Ltd., £5 (no certificate of fitness. £5); W. W. Keighley. Ltd. (two charges), £4 and £6; Ryan Bros., Ltd. (two charges). £5 and £5. No driver’s licence: Jennifer Ann Didham, £5, disqualified for six months: Trevor William Tait, £3, disquaHfied for three months from August 3: Christine Janice Campbell, costs only; Bruce Meechin, £7 10s, disquaHfied for six months (no warrant of fitness, £1; false information. £5); William Allan Davidson, £5, disquaHfied for six months. Wrong class of driver’s licence: David Restell Henderson, £2: Gordon John Graham, £10: Allan John Whltneli, £2: Richard Peter Angus Trolove, £3. Permitted unlicensed driver to drive: Stephen Frank Coward, £3, disqualified for three months. Failed to carry heavy traffic licence: Ocean Products, Ltd., £2: Kevin Horgan, £3.

Failed to produce driver’s licence: David James Roberts, £5 (no warrant of fitness. £1). No certificate of fitness: Graeme William Wilson, costs only (no heavy traffic licence, costs only); A. R. McKay, Ltd., £2 (no heavy traffic licence, £3): P. G. Morrison, Ltd., £5. No warrant of fitness: Robert John Hayward, £3. Failed to stop at a compulsory stop: Stewart Lindsay Saunders, £3; Robert Malcolm Walker, £8; Bruce Alexander Forbes. £5: Peter Gerald Penrose, £3: Aronolous Laurentius van Irsel, £3: Patricia Ann Kinnard, £lO disqualified for three months: William Herbert Merritt, £l2 10s, disqualified for six months (failed to keep left. £l2 10s, disqualified for six months). Passed on an intersection:

Paul Leslie Smith. £7, disquaHfied for three months. Careless use: Raymond Arthur Trevor Neiman, £l5; Carole Ann Sanders, £5. Carried pillion passenger contrary to licence: Peter William Ross, £2. Insufficient lights: James Summer. £2; Harvey Robert Brown, £1 (no driver s licence, £1): Terence Francis Neale, £4; Joseph Billy Schwaiger, £4; Kelvin Arthur Kimber, £3; Murray Lindsay Kirk, £3: Gerhardus Hermanus Schulte, £5. Wrongly adjusted lights: Ronald Foster Campbell, £3; Bevan Walter Saggers, £3; Frederick Victor, £3. No rear red light: Bruce Arthur Fletcher. £1 10s. Failed to dip headlights: Robert Henry Rogers, £5. Noisy motor vehicle: Graham John Bloomfield, £5. Unreasonable use of horn: Douglas James Tait, £7. Unregistered motor vehicle: William Ronald Hazlehurst, £3, disqualified for three months; (no warrant of fitness, costs only). Breach of goods service licence: D. Hall and Sons, £l5 (failed to produce vehicle authority, £2). (Before Mr H. J. K. Headlfen, S.M.) DECISION RESERVED In a civil claim by Anthony Perkin, an architectural draughtsman (Mr J. E. Ryan), against Hendrikus Johannes Woudberg, a baker (Mr B. S. McLaughlin) for breach of contract. the Magistrate reserved his decision. Perkin in his statement of claim is asking for the sum of £2lO for preparing plans and specifications for Woudberg.