MAGISTRATE’S COURT Seaman In Square Had Revolver In Belt

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31209, 5 November 1966, Page 21

MAGISTRATE’S COURT Seaman In Square Had Revolver In Belt

Hans Hammer, aged 27, a German seaman, appeared before Mr H. J. Evans, S.M., in the Christchurch Magistrate’s Court yesterday, on a charge of being illegally in possession of a .22 calibre revolver. He pleaded guilty through an interpreter. He was convicted and fined £5. An order was made for the forfeiture of the revolver, and an order was also made that Hammer be placed on board his ship the Cap Blanco before it sailed at noon yesterday. Sergeant F. G. Mulcare said that the police were informed at 2.11 a.m. that a man had been seen walking through Cathedral square with a revolver stuck in the waistband of his trousers. A few minutes later Hammer was apprehended in Worcester street. The revolver was not loaded. There was a carton of 30 bullets in Hammer’s coat pocket, Sergeant Mulcare said.

Hammer, who spoke only German, was questioned through an interpreter and had admitted that the captain had told him it was illegal to carry the revolver in New Zealand. Hammer was regarded favourably by the ship’s officers, Sergeant Mulcare said. In court Hammer said he had been drinking heavily on board but said he had not taken the revolver ashore for any special purpose. FINED £l2 10s Vincent Robert Brennan, aged 19, unemployed, pleaded guilty to charges of behaving in a disorderly manner on August 13 and to having no warrant of fitness. He was convicted on each charge, fined £l2 for disorderly behaviour and 10s for having no warrant. Sergeant Mulcare said that Brennan had ridden a motorcycle while carrying a pillion passenger through a shopping mall at New Brighton, turned, and ridden back. The mall was a pedestrian way and though the shops had been closed for about 40 minutes there were still a number of people about. When interviewed Brennan had had no warrant of fitness on his motor-cycle. FIGHTING Noel Te Ara Marsh, aged 18, a glass polisher, and Brian Gordon Meaclem, aged 19, a machinist, both pleaded guilty to charges of fighting in Manchester street on November 3. They were convicted and each fined £6.

To a charge of wilful obstruction of a constable in the execution of his duty, arising from the same incident, John David Claydon, aged 18, a glass polisher, pleaded guilty, was convicted and discharged. SIX WEEKS’ GAOL Robert Henry Thomas, aged 22, a process worker (Mr R. P. Thompson) was convicted and sentenced to six weeks’ imprisonment on a charge of driving while disqualified in Memorial Avenue on September 11. The defendant’s period of disqualification was extended to August, 1969. He pleaded guilty. Sergeant Mulcare said the defendant had previously been disqualified from driv-

ing on February 18 and disqualified further on August 18 for driving while disqualified. On a further charge of having no warrant of fitness, to which the defendant also pleaded guilty, he was convicted and ordered to pay Court costs £1 10s. REMANDED Neville Gowland, aged 27, a rope and twine maker, was remanded in custody to November 10 on a charge of rape at Pines Beach on November 3. TRAFFIC PROSECUTIONS In traffic prosecutions brought by the police, convictions were entered and penalties imposed as follows, with court costs £1 IDs on each charge:— Careless use: Barry Ernest Hoy, £lO (failed to stop, £lO, failed to ascertain Injury, costs only, disqualified from driving for four months); Francis Wilfred Turvey, £10; Melvin George Main, £7; James Gilbert Laurenson, £6; John Edward Keenan, £7 10s, disqualified for two months (no warrant of fitness, £2); Robert William Roxburgh, £6. Failed to give way to right: George Etienne Gray, £8 10s; Jack Caldwell Forward, £8 10s; Raymond Edward Wright, £lO, disqualified from driving for one month; Anthony Moss Monds, £4, disqualified from driving for three months. Failed to stop at stop sign: Bryce Frank Doidge, £5 (no driver’s licence, £lO, disqualified from driving for three months); Allan Braidwood Stewart, £6. Drove in a dangerous manner: Andrew John Sutherland, £l5, disqualified for 12 months (no warrant of fitness, court costs only). Failed to keep left: Wayne Douglas Foord, £6, disqualified for three months (no driver’s licence, £2, no warrant of fitness, £1). Rode cycle on footpath: Denis Frances Willis, IDs (no red rear reflector, costs only, no headlamp, 10s, no tall light, costs only). Rode cycle without headlamp: Max Larsen Jorgensen, £l. No driver’s licence: Robert George Edge, £2 (no warrant of fitness, 10s); Shane Holloway, £B, disqualified from driving for two months (no warrant of fitness, £1). (Before Mr E. A. Lee, S.M.) FINED £lO John Wilson, aged 49, a seaman (Mr J. A. Bretherton), was convicted and fined £lO on a ehaige of carelessly using a motor-vehicle on the Christ-church-Lyttelton road tunnel approach near the Ferry road roundabout on April 2. Wilson pleaded not guilty.

Barrie Goodwin said he was travelling on the tunnel road away from the tunnel, and had started to slow near the 30 m'les an hour sign near Ferry road when a car passed him at speed and pulled in front of him This car, driven by Wilson, then had to brake to avoid hitting a slow-moving van in front, said Goodwin. Wilson’s car had to brake again, and in doing so spun completely around, facing the opposite direction, and he ran into the front of it, Goodwin said. FINED £l2 10s Alexander Barclay, aged 29, a cable-layer, was convicted and fined £l2 10s on a charge of careless use of a motor-vehicle on Papanui road on August 30. Barclay pleaded not guilty to the charge. FINED £lO Leslie Dallas Dwight, aged 19. a steel worker (Mr E. O. Sullivan), was convicted and fined £lO and ordered to attend a course of traffic lectures on a charge of carelessly using a motor-vehicle in Moorhouse avenue on July 11. Dwight pleaded not guilty to the charge. FINED £5 Keith Donald Parker, aged 16, an apprentice mechanic (Mr G. W. Alexander), pleaded not guilty to a charge of carelessly using a motor-cycle In Pages road on May 23. He was convicted and fined £5. "MUST BE CERTAIN” “If people are going to back out of car parks they must be certain they do not create difficulties for any other driver,” the Magistrate told Geoffrey George Reeve, aged 17, a laboratory technician. Reeve was fined £5, witnesses’ expenses £2, for using a motorvehicle without reasonable consideration on August 20 at New Brighton. He pleaded not guilty, and was represented by Mr L. M. O’Reilly. (Before Mr G. A. Nicholls, S.M.) DANGEROUS DRIVING Patrick Courtney Heaphy, aged 19, a student, was fined £7 10s and disqualified for one year on a charge of dangerous driving. He was ordered to pay witnesses’ expenses of £l4.

The offence occurred on Springs road on May 6. OTHER TRAFFIC PROSECUTIONS In other traffic prosecutions brought by the police, convictions were entered and penab ties imposed as follows, with court costs £1 10s on each charge:— Careless use: Brent John Warren £7 10s (no warrant of fitness, £5); David John Kennedy, £5; Elwyn Alexander Hay, £7 10s; David Rawirl Wehipelhana, £7 10s.

Failed to comply with traffic lights: Edward Francis King, £7 10s.