MAGISTRATE’S COURT Youth Remanded For Sentence On Sex Charge

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31135, 11 August 1966, Page 11

MAGISTRATE’S COURT Youth Remanded For Sentence On Sex Charge

A youth who told the police he was the "vice leader” of a Christchurch gang called “The Rebels” was charged with unlawful sexual intercourse with a girl aged 14 years six months when he appeared in the Magistrate's Court before Mr E. A. Lee S.M. yesterday. The youth, Victor Royal Chaney, aged 17. an unemployed workman, who pleaded guilty to the charge, was convicted and remanded in custody till August IS for a probation officer's report and sentence.

Sergeant F. G. Mulcare said the girl involved had run away from her Christchurch home on July 31 and had stayed with some youths in a flat.

On August 2 she had met Chaney at a dance and spent the night with him sleeping in a public building. "They slept there as they had nowhere else to go,” Sergeant Mulcare said. The girl had admitted she was a consenting party to the offence which occurred during that night. Chaney, when interviewed on August 9, said he had met the girl at a dance. “Chaney told the police the girl had become a member of a gang called ‘The Rebels’ and also said he was vice leader of that gang.” Sergeant Mulcare said. The accused said the girl had told him she was 15 years of age and he believed her.

Chaney had no fixed abode and when interviewed said he had been sleeping in the building for the last two weeks, said Sergeant Mulcare.

FINED £53 Raymond Sydney Payne, a logging contractor (Mr P. J. Thompson), pleaded guilty to three charges of exceeding the heavy traffic licence held and eight charges of exceeding the statutory maximum axle weight. He was convicted on each of the 11 charges and fined a total of £53. the largest single fine being £lO. Mr Thompson said Payne had been engaged in the salvage of Eyrewell forest timber.

"There seems to be some conflict between two Government departments in this matter" he said. "The Forest Service encouraged Payne to speed up his work and take as much timber as possible while the Transport Department kept weighing the trucks carrying logs and then prosecuting for breaches found.” There were in fact two methods of estimating load weights, by gross scale and on the basis of cubic footage. However, the tw’o methods could result in differences of up to two tons in all because of the weight of water in the logs. There was a weighbridge at the forest but it involved a extra round trip of 20 miles. At times the trucks were carrying logs up to 60ft in length and because it was impossible to get both the truck and the trailer on to the weighbridge at the same time it was difficult to get an accurate measurement.

The timber salvage was urgent and Payne had been wrongly encouraged by the Forest Service to uplift as much as possible, he said. The Magistrate said he was

I not unmindful of the difficulties the operators faced particularly if their load was a hundredweight over the limit. That was something which could be tolerated as the operator could not be expected to keep unloading and loading till the weight was correct. “However it seems to me Mr Payne had carried on with the maximum number of convictions while some operators carried on within the minimum number of convictions,” he said. Payne had had 15 to 18 convictions for similar offences last year and there were already some, recorded for this year, said the Magistrate. FINED *£lB A driving instructor advised three of his clients to apply for driving licence tests at the Waimairi County Council and to give addresses in the county because they would have had to wait several weeks to be tested by the City Council and Heathcote county, Traffic Officer W. Wilson, of the Transport Department. said when Colin George Amor pleaded guilty to three charges of being a party to supplying false particulars. Amor was fined a total of £lB and was ordered to pay Court I costs of £4 10s. I Amor said that the three persons wanted to obtain their drivers’ licences but he could not get them booked tn at the City Council or Heathcote County Council. The informations had been laid as a result of a complaint by another driving tutor who had threatened to put him out of business. He realised he had made an error and he would commit no further offences. STOLE £9B A man, whose name was suppressed in the interim (Mr I. C. J Polson) was convicted and remanded on bail for probation officer's report and sentence to August 18 when he pleaded guilty to three charges of theft as a’ servant. The three thefts, on December 9, 17 and 23 involved a total of £9B. CHARGE DISMISSED A charge of careless driving of a motor-car on the Main South road on March 7 against Kevin David Bryan Rogers, aged 26. a workman (Mr L. M. O’Reilly) was dismissed. He pleaded not j guilty. TRAFFIC PROSECUTIONS In traffic prosecutions brought [by the Transport Department, convictions were entered and I penalties imposed as follows, [with Court costs £1 10s in each [case: I Exceeded 30 m.p.h.: Barry [Mather, £5; Donald Raymond I Millichamp, £6: Colin Alexander i Shields. £7; Robert Alan Harris. £3; Paulrang Charles Gallagher. I£s: Alan Ross Brown, £4; Patirick Grant, £4: Bryan John I Thomas Jager. £4; William Lam. £4: Russell John Morris, £4; [ Michael Lewis Patrick Neville. |£s: Robert Bruce Scott. £4; Richcard Graham Tweedie, £6: Henry lYacob Van Lent. £4: Paul Greg[orv Dargan. £4: Eileen Sicillia ‘Garrett. £3: Frederick Charles Muir. £3: Leonard Arthur Richies. £4: Jeffrey Tilley. £5; Percy ’Trevor Watkinson, £2: Arthur [John Allison. £5: Philip Henry lAnstey. £4; Trevor Allan Edlin, £4: Brian Lindsay Lundy, £5; Clarence Dudley McQuillan, £3: Thomas William Morgan, £4: James Roderick Taylor. £4: Basil Frank Teesdale. £4: Graeme Rowland Agassiz. £10; Denis Stanley Berwick. £4: Leslie O Brien Kama. £5; Bruce John Manson, £4: Philip Russell MasIlin. £6: Rex Graham Williams. £2 Exceeded 55 m.p.h.: Richard Francis Caddick. £5: Ronald Edward White. £7 10s: Gavin Franicis Atkinson. £6 (exceeded 30 miles an hour. £5). j Exceeding 40 miles an hour with trailer: Bevan Richard ’Campbell. £5; Peter John CHfiford Fleming. £5: Preston Albert [ Weeks. £5. Exceeded 30 miles an hour 'without safety helmet: Gilbert John Joseph Crotty, £3. Careless use: Charles Howard Shadbolt, £lO, disqualified for three months from August U (exceeded 30 m.p.h., £7): George Edgar Chaston, £lO and disqualified for three months; Paul Garth Patterson, £lO. Failed to stop at stop sign: Trevor John Hyder. £6: Graham Terence McCarton. £5: John Burton Chapman, £6: Spencer John 1 stone Quigley. £B.

No warrant of fitness: Graham Leslie Prattley, £1 (insufficient lights, £5); John Jeffers McArdle, £1 (insufficient lights, £2): Lyndon Desmond Stewart Barr, £1; Samuel Alexander Swanson. £2: Ronald Ernest Ward, £2. Failed to yield right of way on pedestrian crossing: Daisy Elizabeth Jones, £5. Heavy traffic licence not carried; N. J. Hurl! and Company, Ltd., £4; John Michael Collier, £3 (no certificate of fitness, £3). Exceeded heavy traffic licence: Oxford Transport, Limited, court costs only: Certified Concrete, Limited, £5 (exceeded axle weight, £3); Central Carrying Company, Ltd., £4: Waimak Saw. mills, Ltd., £5; E. H. Boyce, Ltd., £4; Smart and Sons, Ltd.. £2. Exceeded axle weight: Selwyn Casewoods, Ltd., £4: W. A. Brown. Ltd., £3; T. P. Gilroy, Ltd., £7 10s: Reginald John Herman, £5; Isaac Construction, Ltd., £4; Durhams Transport, Ltd., £6. Breach of goods service licence: R. R. Price, Ltd., £5. No certificate of fitness: Joseph Condon, £3. Rode carelessly: Bruce Peter White£eld, £2. Wrongly adjusted lights: Keith Arthur Hinks, £4; Kawarau Fache Mcßride, £3. Insufficient lights: Andrew Neville Haggerty, £4. Wrong class of driver’s licence: Roy William Cheesman, £1 (no certificate of fitness, costs; failed to carry heavy traffic licence, £1). No driver’s licence: Garvan Cyril Scott, £5: Kevin Thollar Burnett, £3; Douglas George Bryce. £3. Passed in no passing area: Colin James Sheehan, £lO and licence suspended for three three months (failed to dip lights, £4). Permitted unlicensed driver to drive: Lester Raymond Greenwood, £5 Defective silencer: Graham John Bloomfield, costs: Brent James Anderson, £5; Warwick Stephen Neville, £5. No red rear light: Henry Harold McGrath, £2; Rodney Maxwell Woods. £2. Crossed against traffic lights: Ronald James Smart, £6. No light on cycle: Bruce Craig. £2. Noisy vehicle: Trevor Lewis Ifiitt, £5: Barry Kevin Marcantelli. £5: Bevan Ross Harris, £5. Insecure trailer: Gordon Edward Mehrtens, £4. 'Before Mr E. S. J. Crutchlev. S.M.) CHARGE DISMISSED A charge of failing to give

way to the right at the corner of Oxford terrace and Armagh street on May 23 against Fred erick Bruce Howard, aged 25, a clerk (Mr I. C. J. Polson) was dismissed. He pleaded not guilty. A charge of careless use of a motor vehicle in Linwood avenue on April 7 against Robert John Reginald Craig, aged 52, a crane driver (Mr L. M. O’ReiHy) was dismissed. He pleaded not guilty. (Before Messrs W. A. Small and S. F. Marshall, Justices of the Peace.) PERJURY CHARGE Leslie Malcolm Muir, aged 34, a contractor (Mr M. J. Cashmere), was committed to the Supreme Coqrt for trial on a charge of perjury on July 20. The charge acrose from a hearing on that date in which Muir pleaded not guilty to a charge of exceeding 30 m.p.h. in Amyes road on April 2. He was remanded on bail of £2OO with a surety of £2OO. Senior-Sergeant G. M. Cleary said that the transcript of the traffic case showed that Muir had denied being the driver of the car when the traffic offence occurred, and also denied that he had been told by a traffic officer on April 2 that a fellow employee had been arrested for driving while under the influence of alcohol. Traffic Officer J. E. L. Hulme said that at 9.30 p.m. on April 2 he stopped the defendant in Amyes road and gave him a traffic offence notice for speeding. He said he was sure Muir had been the driver. He had told Muir that a fellow employee of Consolidated Concrete, Ltd., named Wyatt, had been arrested earlier that evening, and had suggested that Muir get in touch with Wyatt’s wife. Four other witnesses John Clifford Poulsen, Peter John Berry, Henry Kevin Marr, and Frances Edna Berry, stated that Muir had told them of the incident in Amyes road. Poulsen and Peter John Berry sad that Muir had shown them the traffic offence notice. Heather Jane Wyatt, a housewife, said that Muir telephoned her on April 2 and told her that her husband was at the police station. Wyatt said that Muir, told her a traffic officer had told him this. Muir elected trial by jury on a further charge of breaking and entering the premises of Consolidated Concrete, Ltd., at 762 Main South road, on July 12, with intent to commit a crime. He was remanded on bail to August 17.