MAGISTRATE’S COURT Man With “Deplorable” Traffic Record Fined, Disqualified

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31177, 29 September 1966, Page 9

MAGISTRATE’S COURT Man With “Deplorable” Traffic Record Fined, Disqualified

“I have not the slightest doubt that it is the Court’s duty, in respect of a defendant with such a record, to impose a very severe penalty for the present offence of supplying incorrect or misleading information,” Mr H. J. Evans, S.M., said in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday when delivering his decision on the question of penalty which he had reserved on three charges brought against Graham Leslie Walsh, aged 19, a naval rating Walsh had been found guilty on charges that on October 29, being the holder of a motor-cycle licence subject to special conditions, he drove in Cathedral square carrying a passenger other than in a side-car, and that he drove in Cathedral square without having affixed a learner’s licence label; and that on June 21, 1965, he supplied particulars or answers purporting to be in conformity with the traffic regulations knowing them to have been incorrect or misleading.

For each of the offences committed on October 29 he was fined £5. For the offence on June 21, 1965, he was fined £2O, and disqualified for 15 months.

The Magistrate said Walsh had not appeared on any of the three charges but pleaded guilty by letter to the first charge and the other two were proved by traffic officers. The Magistrate. said; “The following is the defendant’s deplorable record of traffic convictions:—June, 1965, no driver’s licence; February, 1966, no driver’s licence; February, 1966, exceeding 30 m.p.h. without a safety helmet; February, 1966, exceeding 30 m.p.h.: February, 1966, supplying false information; February, 1966, supplying a false name; February, 1966, careless use of a motor vehicle. “In addition to the monetary penalties imposed upon him for these offences the defendant was disqualified from driving for a period of three months on the charge of supplying false information, and for a period of six months on the charge of careless use. “In fact what the defendant did was that in applying for a licence in June, 1965, to drive a motor-cycle he concealed his true name and posed as Graham Peter Wilcox,” said the Magistrate. He would treat that offence as the principal one of the three. Traffic Sergeant H. J. MeMorran appeared for the Christchurch City Council Traffic Department. FINED £5O Raymond Sydney Payne a logging contractor, was fined a total of £5O on charges of exceeding a certificate of fitness, exceeding a heavy traffic licence and exceeding axle weight. Traffic Officer J. B. Middle-

ton, who stopped the truck on July 18 on state highway No. 1, said that this was one of the worst cases of overloading he had ever seen. “I consider it was actually bordering on being dangerous as it was a very lop-sided load,” he said. “If a spring had broken, the vehicle would have capsized." The truck was being driven bv Barry William Hammond. The certificate of fitness rating was 40,320 lb., but the gross actual weight was found to be 49.190 lb. The two rear axles of the truck were closely spaced. Each was subject to a statutory axle weight of six tons. The leading axle of the rear pair showed a weight of 9 tons 5 cwt., and the second rear axle showed a weight of 9 tons 3 cwt. The heavy traffic licence carried was for 17 tons. SIX CHARGES

R. R. Price. Ltd, a logging contractor (Mr K. M. Hampton), pleaded guilty to four charges of exceeding the axle weight and two charges of exceeding the heavy traffic licence. On each charge the company was convicted and fined £5. Three traffic officers told the Court they had stopped company vehicles on three different days in July at Chaneys and a fourth traffic officer told of stopping a company truck in Blenheim road, also in July. Mr Hampton told the Court that on three of the four occasions the same truck was involved and another vehicle was involved on the fourth occation. However on each of the occasions a company truck was stopped it was the same driver and that driver had just commenced with the company.

The company had a hard core of experienced drivers who had experience of assessing the weight of the loads of logs but the new driver had been inexperienced. Assessing the weight of a load of logs was by no means easy and the only way a person could learn to estimate logs for weight was through experience.

DROVE WHILE DISQUALIFIED Alexander Currie Wingate, aged 21. a labourer, was convicted on charges that on June 27 he drove while disqualified and gave a false name and address. Traffic Officer Middleton explained to the Court that Wingate was at present serving a term of Imprisonment for other offences and was disqualified till 1968. Wingate was disqualified for one year on the charge of driving while disqualified and was convicted and discharged on the other offence. FINED £7 Gordon Frederick Hinga, aged 25, a shearer, pleaded guilty to a charge that on August 2 at Christchurch being a person who had been released on January 14 from prison after a sentence of 12 months’ imprisonment failed to report to a probation officer as instructed. He was convicted and fined £7. ADJOURNMENT Sander Szucs, aged 28, a garage hand, appeared on charges that between July 3 and July 5 he wilfully attempted to obstruct the course of justice by stating to the police that he was the driver of a rental car which had been involved in an accident on the Main road, Motukarara. when the driver had been Bruce Cyril Patrick Plews. Szucs was also charged that on July 2 he wilfully attempted to obstruct the course of justice by asking the occupants of a rental car which had been involved in an accident at Motukarara to say he had been the driver of the car which in fact was driven by Bruce Cyril Patrick Plews. The charges were adjourned till October 12. TO CHILDREN'S COURT A 17-year-old youth (Mr W. F. Brown) charged with receiving on September 11 four Smith and Wesson .38 calibre revolvers and a quantity of ammunition of a total value of £9O was remanded to appear in the Children’s Court on September 30 Bail was granted and the youth’s name was suppressed. . FURTHER CHARGES Herbert Walter Reardon, aged 24, a carpenter’s apprentice (Mr D. H Stringer), appeared on a charge that on September 18 in Victoria street he drove in a dangerous manner causing the death of Victor Dane Tutauhu. He was additionally charged with the offences of falling to stop after an accident,, failing to ascertain injury following an accident, failing to report an accident, and careless driving causing death. On all charges he was remanded till October 5. TRAFFIC PROSECUTIONS In traffic prosecutions brought by the Transport Department, convictions were entered and fines imposed as follows, with Court costs of £1 10s bn each charge: Exceeeded 30 m.p.h.: Thomas Gerald Calder. £10: Marie Therese Hutchinson, £10: Murray Gordon Louis Loughnan, £8; Klags Teake Van Tuinen, £4; Francis Herbert Engelbrecht. £2: Arthur John Boucher, £4 10s: Muna Hema. £5 10s; Albert Duncan Hopkinson, £10; Gray Desmond Jamieson. £5; Wayne Robertson, £3; John Frederick Utteridge, £8 10s: Om Prakash

Sharma. £4; Ahron Michael Wheeler, £lO and ordered to attend traffic lectures; Michael Newall Wilson, U; Helen Maretta Gillan, £5; Fred Harlow, £4 10s; William Marlin Lee, £7 10s; Dennis William Deavoll, £8; Tony Arthur Hallams, £2 10s; Michael Dean, £4; Hugh Bassette Diver, £8; Violet Agnes Ling, £7; John Raymond McManus, £5: Bryan Arthur Sissons, £7; Brian Dudley Andrews, £3 10s; George Henry Bennett, £5; David Crosgrove. £8 10s; Peter William Everest, £6; Robert Winfield Frykman, £8; John Russel Glackin, £3; Ivan Peter Harris. £8 10s; Bruce Alexander Graham, £7; lan James Horrell, £7; Robert James Jones, £9; Keith Raymond Palmer, £1 (exceeded 30 m.p.h. without safety helmet, £8); Fergus Sinclair Spence, £1 10s: Winifred Phyliss Spencer, £4: William Adair Anderson, £5; George Arthur Drummond, £3 10s; Eric George Drewitt, £5; Henry James Earl, £5; James McGregor Gordon, £7; David Miles Handysidg, £7; Charles Alexander Marrow, £6; Lorna Madeline Jimpson, £6; Mervyn Neil Leathern, £5; William James McFetrish, £7 10s; David Murray, £8 10s; Jozef Willem Ryk, £5; Cecil James Webb, £7; Raymond Samuel Hawkins, disqualified from driving for four months, (exceeded 30 m.p.h. without safety helmet, £8 10s); Allan Francis Luckman, £8; Graham Hunter Perkins. £l2; Lyall Robert Simpson, £6: William Lynn Stokes, £l2; Kevin John Wright, £7 10s; Robert Michael Boyd, £6 (failed to produce driver’s licence, £1): Ralph Lloyd Jones, £5 (no warrant of fitness, £1); Elvine Desmond Wilder, £2: Petrus Johannes M. Bernaards, £10; Gordon Herbert Etton, £3; Gary William Meyerhoff, £4; Philip Wayne Wareing, £8 10s.

Exceeded axle weight: Certified Concrete Ltd., £3; Woods Bros., Ltd., £5: Butler Timber Company Ltd., £2 10s (exceeded heavy traffic licence, £2 10s; exceeded certificate of fitness, £2 10s): Griffen Bros., Ltd., £3; W. A. Habgood, Ltd., two charges. £5 on each (exceeded heavy traffic licence, £5); Millers Transport Ltd., £5 (exceeded heavy traffic licence, £5); North Canterbury Catchment Board, £5: Oxford Transport, Ltd., £6; Templeton Transport Ltd., £5; J. Burton and Son Ltd., £4 10s: Oxford Transport Service Ltd., £5; Sydenham Timber Company Ltd., £5.

Exceeded heavy traffic licence: Rhinds Transport, Ltd., £5 (no certificate of fitness, £5); Cornelius Piter Van Der Ende, £4; A. K. Transport, Ltd., £4; Sutherland and Company, Ltd.. £5 (exceeded axle weight, £5); E. F. Coote, Ltd., £5 (exceeded axle weight, £5); Edgar William Gossett, two charges, £5, £5; Reginald Adam Burns Walter, £4.

No warrant of fitness:' Masonary Services, Ltd.. £1 tused worn tyres, £5); Evyln Lydia Apes, £1; Raoul Sheppard Smith, £1; Alexander Russel Warren, £1 (unregistered car, £1); Mlhl Bowen, £1 10s (failed to produce driver’s licence, convicted and discharged); Ronald Lester Harris, £1; Neil James Binnie, £2; Michael John Hart, £2; lan Whiting, two charges. 10s, £l. Failed to stop at compulsory stop: Graeme Stuart Boyd, £5; Taituha Hope Karaitiana, £8; Allenby Scott Cottle, £8 10s: Richard Harold Graveston, £8 10s; Norman Archie Dunlop, £10; Thomas Pattinson Palmer, £10; Charles Ward, £4; Richard William Diver, £8 10s; Kevin Neale. £3 10s; Paul Ashley

Keown, £8; Brian Arthur Marra. £4: Peter John Till, £7; John Gerhardua M. Kuipera, £lO. Exceeded 30 milaa an hour carrying a pillion passenger not wearing a safety helmet: Evan Wayne Nicol, £2 (exceeded 43 miles an hour with pillion passenger, £2): Thomas Phillip Davit, IS: Douglas Barry Philp,

Insufficient lights: Stanlev Douglas Hall, £2; Anthony James Gregan, £3 (no red rear light, £3; number plate not illuminated, £3); William Joseph Straight, £3 (no warrant of fitness, £2); Russel lan Barron, £5; David William Owen Jones, £5 10s; Kelvin Louis Heaney, £4; Robert Millar Archer Wilson, £3.

No driver's licence: Anthony John Hamilton Wilder, £3 10s; Brian Andrew Tweedie. £«; Peter Francis Noonan, £S; Jack Victor Hood, £5 (permitted use of an unlicensed motor vehicle, £5).

No reAr red reflectors: Noel James Cammock. £2 10s (no warrant of fitness, 10s). Failed to keep left when turning: Raymond Wallace Finlay, £B. No rear red light: John Alfred Inwood, £3; Brian George Kinloch, £3.

No certificate of fitness: Clive lan Harris, £6.

Sold vehicle without warrant of fitness: Rex Gordon, £1 10s (failed to notify a change of ownership, £1 10s). Failed to signal turn: Frank Harry Wilson, £1 10s.

Parking offences: Martin Don aid Steele, £l.

Failed to dip lights. David Peter Tolhurst, £1 10s.

Noisy motor moto-vehicle Roger Lewis Manson, £6. Unlicensed motor-vehicle Raoul Sheppard Smith, £l.

Wrong class of driver’s licence: Gair Balfour Evans, 10s (defective silencer, £8); Kelvin Rana Russel, £3. Failed to give way: Nolina Jessie Balger, £3. Unreasonable use of car horn: Wing Ying Gin, £6 10s. Load of excess width without permit: Farrier Waimak Ltd., £8 10s.

Careless driving: Paul Maxwell Roberts, £6 10s; Michael Cornelius Ryan, £B. Vehicle not safely loaded: Robert Noel Ferguson, £3; James Harrow, Ltd., £3. Failed to keep left: Ernest Raymond Head, £2. Insecure trailer: Frank Mitchell, £4.

Registration label not displayed: Desmond William Tull Wilson, £3.

Exceeded 35 miles an hour: Prudence Sanders, £5 10s; David Richard Wood, £7 10s. Failed to produce driver's licence: William Francis Watson, £4; Robert Francis Cooke. £2 10s (no warrant of fitness, £2); Kelvyn Lance Hooper, £2 (exceeded 30 miles an hour, £7 10s).

Permitted use of unlicensed motor-vehicle: Raymond Leonard Green, £5 (no warrant of fitness, 10s); Robert Watson Lowther, £2 10s; John Hubert Westbrook, £5; Anthony William Chamberlain, £6 (no warrant, £3); Geoffrey Mervyn Pannett, costs only. Speed too great to stop in half clear road: Norah Agnes Shennan, £2; Betty Margaret Clemens, £3 10s (no warrant of fitness, £1).

Stopped too close to pedestrian crossing: John Douglas Hickllng, 10s. Exceeded certificate of fitness: Central Carrying Company, £5.