MAGISTRATE’S COURT Probation And £50 Fine For Disqualified Driving

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31159, 8 September 1966, Page 12

MAGISTRATE’S COURT Probation And £50 Fine For Disqualified Driving

Robert Henry Thomas, aged 22, a labourer, was placed on probation for a year, was fined £5O, and had his driver’s licence cancelled for a further year when he appeared before Mr K. H. J. Headifen, S.M., in the Magistrate s Court yesterday on a charge of driving while disqualified on Wairakei road on August 16. He pleaded guilty. Thomas was ordered to pay the fine at not less than £2 a week and was ordered to open a savings bank account. “You are reaching the stage of being put off the road for a long period,” said the Magistrate. “I treat driving while disqualified as contempt of court ” “The Court does not make orders in the public interest and allow them to be ignored. You have a long list of traffic convictions, but I will give you another chance,” the Magistrate said. STOLE DRILL

Mervyn Chapman, aged 22, a workman, was fined £lO on a charge of stealing an electric drill valued at £22 10s, the property of Fisher and Paykel, Ltd., on August 25. He pleaded guilty. Sergeant V. F. Townshend said the foreman of the firm building the Bank of New Zealand premises in Cathedral square reported the loss of a drill. Chapman was interviewed yesterday on another job site. He said that two weeks before he found the drill and took it home. He had planned to return it. When seen by the police Chapman was using the drill. OBSCENE LANGUAGE Selwyn Lornel Fraider, aged 21, a soldier, was fined £lO on a charge of using obscene language in Hereford street on September 7. He pleaded guilty. Sergeant Townshend said that Fraider had attempted to convert a parked car outside the Christchurch Central Police Station in Hereford street. While attempting this Fraider was disturbed by a constable. Fraider had run off along Hereford street, chased by the constable. When the constable had caught Fraider he had used the language complained of, said Sergeant Townshend. RECEIVING A man, whose name was

suppressed, was fined £7 10s on a charge of receiving a parka, valued at £7, the property of the Army when he knew it had been dishonestly obtained. He pleaded guilty.

IDLE AND DISORDERLY Rangiwahitu Samuel Kabul, aged 28, an unemployed labourer, was sentenced to 14 days’ imprisonment when he pleaded guilty to a charge that he was an idle and disorderly person in that he had insufficient means of support at Springfield on September 6. TRAFFIC OFFENCES In traffic cases brought by the Transport Department convictions were entered and fines were Imposed as follows, with Court costs of £1 10s on each charge: Exceeded 30 miles an hour: Russell Lindsay Mahan, £5; Kathleen Mary Sherlock, £4; John Leslie Burnip, £4; John Frederick David Peach, £6 (licence endorsed for two years); Donald John Pearce, £6; John Joseph O’Connell, £4; Godfrey Hugh Fowke, £4; Desmond Walsh, £4; Brian Francis Lane, £4 (no licence, £1); Judith Hill, £4; Christian John Anderson, £5 on each of two charges; Ernest Wilfred Albert, £5; Herbert Anthony, £7; David Bruce Bowen, £7; Allan Maxwell Chirnside, £4; Malcolm John Dunbar, £4; James Thomas Luke Greening. £4; Nancy Hamilton, £2; Melva Joan Lamberton, £5; Leonard James Leybourne, £4; Jean Kathleen Lockwood, £4; John Edward Ross Lorimer, £4; Robert Albert Porter, £4 (no warrant of fitness, £3); Kevin Francis Small, £4; John Grantley Steele, £5 (no driver’s licence, £1); Rhondda Jean Webb, £4; John Daniel Brooks, £6 (licence endorsed for two years); Gordon McLean, £4; lan Tait, £4: George Middrie Barr, £4; David Stewart Bull, £4; Noel Graham Cleghorn, £4; Anthony John Crawford. £4; Vernon John Dennison, £4; Betty Elizabeth Lodge, £4: Alexander Joseph McDonald, £4: Peter Anthony Marshall, £4; Kenneth William Richardson, £4; George Ballock, £4; Francis Trevor Bentley, £4; Ronald Frederick Bierwirth, £5; Brian William Black, £5; Geritt Albertus Brand, £4; Thomas Albert Brown, £4; Allan William Bryant, £4: Joyce Alice Campbell, £5; Cyril Patrick Dyson, £4; Desmond Eade, £4; Sydney William Elson, £4; William Milford Guthrie, £5: Colin Fraser Hibbs, £4; James Clive Hobbs, £4; Robin Turton Horton, £4: Archibald Clarence Johnstone, £4; Margaret Jane Johnston, £4: Kenneth Roland Jones, £5; Paul Tracy Kelly, £5; Cyril Gordon Kenworthy, £4; William David Latham, £4; Colin Loader, £5 (failed to produce driver’s licence, £1); John Whatley Lord, £4; Peter Michael Redstone, £5: Jack Llewellyn Patterson, £4: Margaret Clara Purvis, £5; Marion Isabel Rolleston, £4: John Michael Shivas, £4: Sidney Tew, £4; Cornelius William van Heusden, £4: Edwin Charles Webb, £4: James David Wright, £4: Jennifer Mary Casey, £4:

Daniel Wynandus Mentink, £4: Murray Selwyn Duder, £7 10s (exceeded 55 miles an hour, £7 10s).

Exceeded heavy traffic licence: Transport (North Canterbury), Ltd., £2: R. R. Price, Ltd., £5 (exceeded axle weight, £3); Gilbert James Beynon, £2; W. A. Habgood, Ltd., £4 (exceeded axle weight, £2); Randal George MacDonald, £3 (unlicensed goods service, £5; Charles Angus MacDonald. £3: Raymond Sydney Payne, £5 (exceeded axle weight, £5). Insufficient lights: lan Bruce Turley, £2: William George Shaw, £4 (failed to produce driver’s licence, £1).

Proceeded from stop sign be fore the way was clear: Mar jorie Joan Munt, £4; Athol Ed wards Mathews, £5.

Drove while disqualified: Richard John Dunn, £3O. disqualified from driving for 12 months.

Failed to stop at stop sign: Leender Dirk Bussing. £3: Michael Graham, £1; Michael Timothy Hannifin, £5; Murray Robert Hooking, £5; Gerald Haveiland, £5 (no warrant of fitness, £3); Rodney John Muller, £5; Brian Edward Samuels, £5 (insufficient lights, £5). Failed to keep to left: Christina Ann Cullen, £4; John Phillip Deardon, £4; Robert Hamilton Johnson, £lO (exceeding 30 miles an hour, £7: no current warrant of fitness, £2, disqualified from driving for three months, and ordered to atend course of driving lectures).

Drove In a careless manner: James Alfred Day, £10: Albert Curline, £10; Paul William Hensley, £5.

No driver’s licence: Andrew Francis Doudey, £1: Warwick Stephen Neville, £1; Albert Wylie, £l. Exceeded 55 miles an hour: lan Ross Macmillan, £5; Janice Margaret Riley, £4. Exceeded 45 miles an hour with a pillion passenger: War ren Douglas Guy, £3, exceeded 30 miles an hour, £5. Exceeded temporary speed limit: Dennis Maxwell Hanna. £3; Gavin Richard Hayton, £3; Desmond Owen Hooper, £2; Dennis Wilfred Pidgeon, £3: Lau rence John Steere. £3; Theodore James Sullivan, £3.

No rear red light: G. W. Pearson, Ltd., £2 (excessive width, £2); O. Stopforth, Ltd..

Exceeded 30 miles an hour without a safety helmet: Graham Clarence Perry, £3. Failed to notify change of ownership: Douglas Brown, Ltd., £l.

Defective silencer: Bernard Callanan, £3 (no warrant of fitness, £1).

No warrant of fitness: Allan Richard Hooper, £2.

Insecure trailer: Leslie Charles Mooney, £5 (unlicensed vehicle, £3).

Failed to produce driver’s licence: Neville Gordon Clarke, £l. Exceeded axle weight: R. J. Herman, Ltd.,, £5. Failed to dip lights: Hilda Lucy Roberts, £5. Licence label not affixed: William Wallace', £5.