MAGISTRATE’S COURT Motorists Warned Of Duty To Stop At Rail Crossings

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31231, 1 December 1966, Page 13

MAGISTRATE’S COURT Motorists Warned Of Duty To Stop At Rail Crossings

Compulsory stop signs erected at railway crossings had been placed there to protect motorists, Mr K. H. J. Headifen S.M., said in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday. If people did not stop they could place the train driver in a difficult situation. If a person were killed in a crossing accident in which a car had failed to stop at a stop sign that could weigh heavily on the train driver even though he would not be to blame.

The Magistrate said, when dealing with a number of charges of failure to stop at a compulsory stop at railway crossings, that he would impose a £5 fine which he considered was a warning. Traffic Officer J. Middleton said the mufti car had been placed at the crossings on Sturrocks road and Tuckers road after a complaint had been received from the Railways Department. “The complaint was lodged after a near accident,” he said. ’’’hose convicted for failing to stop at a compulsory stop I sign on a railway crossing were: Raymond Augustus Birmingham, £5; Trevor Hugh Cameron, £5; Denis Thomas Costelloe, £5: Theodorus Franciscus Elcholtz, £5; Allan Gordon Falconer, £5: Hugh Ferguson, £5; Barry Russell Graeme Holmes, £5; William Herbert Kelly, £5; David Dennis Lyall, £5; (No warrant of fitness £2; Permitted use of unlicensed vehicle, £2); Aksel Lie Olesen, £5; George Gregor Rowley £5; Takarei Ihia Solomon, £5; (No warrant of fitness £2); Elan Nora Joyce, £5; Harvey Were, £5; Ralph Keith Wilkins, £5. In addition each was ordered to pay court costs of £1 10s on each charge. CHARGE DISMISSED

A charge of unlawfully supplying liquor to Peter Douglas Cocks and another on August 28, against Maurice Frederick Neiman, aged 42, a hotel manager, was dismissed. Neiman pleaded not guilty. The Magistrate said that the prosecution had not challenged Cocks’s evidence when he said that he had not purchased any beer, and that a guest of the hotel, Calvin Smith, had bought the liquor. “The charge must be clearly and fairly shown to the defendant so he can prepare a defence. The words in the charge ’and another’ don’t give him this chance,” said the Magistrate, Mr K. N. Hampton appeared for Neiman. TRAFFIC CHARGES In prosecutions brought by the Transport Department, convictions were entered and fines imposed as follows, with court costs £1 10s on each charge:— Exceeded 30 miles an hour: Rex Mervyn Dunn, £5; Leslie Malcolm Muir, £8: Kevin John Dean, £5 (exceeded 30 miles an hour carrying passenger with no safety helmet, £3): Bruce Maxwell Flack. £8; Frederick William Gulliver, £7: William Ward Hughes, £5: Anthony John Hughes, £6; Stuart Earling Johnstone, £5; Peter Denby Keir, £5; Brian Knapp, £8; Charles Lee, £5; David Graham Lloyd, £5; lan Hamilton Menzies, £5; Trevor John Mathie, £5; John Joseph Nolan, £7, and ordered to attend traffic lectures (exceeded 30 miles an hour with no safety helmet, £3); Francis William O'Neill. £6: Barry Michael Pett, £5; Albert Russell Prebble, £5: Thomas Peter Rae, £6; John Reeve Ratina. £5: Geraldine Sylvia Stockdale. £6; David Graeme Taylor, £5: Peter Rex Taylor, £8: Philip Thomas Taylor. £5; Alfred James Wilson, £6; James Craik Wilson, £5; Joseph Thomas Biggs, £8: William John Cudworth, £7; Bruce Desmond Odgers, £5; Keith Raymond Palmer, £7, ordered to attend traffic lectures (exceeded 30 miles an hour with no safety helmet. £5).

Failed to stop at a compulsory stop sign: Bruce Alexander Hood, £7, ordered to attend traffic lectures (obscured registration plate, £2).

Carried pillion passenger on provisional licence: John Robert Smith, £6.

Insufficient lights: Brian Lawrence Robin, £5; Clive Francis Wheeler. £5.

No warrant of fitness: James Douglas McLintock. £5 (wrongly adjusted lights, £5): Kenneth Leslie Palmer, two charges. £3, £3.

Exceeded 40 miles an hour in a heavy motor vehicle: Alan Roderick MacLennan, £7.

Permitted an unlicensed driver to drive: B. Hosking, Ltd., £7.

Permitted use of an unlicensed vehicle: Mervyn Thomas Guy, £4: Redmond Eric Seque, £3. Failed to produce a driver’s licence: Brian Gray, £5 (no rear red light, £10).

Exceeded 40 miles an hour with a trailer: Ross Wright Blakeley. £8; David Allan Howey. £l2. Proceeded from stop sign before the way was clear: Louisa Stockdale, £3.

Exceeded heavy traffic licence: Steve Mitchell, Ltd., £7; Ruddenclau Wallace, £5; Thomas Taylor, £5: G. Chaffey, Ltd., £7; R. R. Price, Ltd.. £8 (exceeded axle weight, £8). Exceeded axle weight: Masonry Services, Ltd., £6 (exceeded heavy traffic licence, £7); Colin East. £8; A. D. Graham and Company, Ltd., £6 (exceeded heavy traffic licence, £5); R. C. Horsley. Ltd.,-£6.

Exceeded temporary speed limit: Robert Andrew Marshall, £4. Exceeded 55 m.p.b.: Nicholas Gordon Lowe, £8; Robin John Carpenter, £8; Michael Wilfred Morgan, £10; John Gordon Reid. £8; Stuart Francis Simpson, £l2 Careless use: Selwyn James Johnston, £B. No driver's licence: Leon Bennington, £6. (Before Mr E. S. J. Crutchley, S.M.). BURGLARY Robert Wayne Parata, aged 17, a workman, pleaded guilty to a charge of breaking and entering on November 27, the premises of Home Bakery Ltd., 753 Colombo street. He was convicted and remanded in custody till December 5 for a probation officer’s report and sentence. Senior-Sergeant G. M. Cleary said the premises had been entered by forcing the hard board covering of a window, and £4O was taken. IDLE AND DISORDERLY Two unemployed factory workers, Leslie Arvid Dillon, aged 50, and Anthony McHerron, aged 50, appeared on charges of being idle and disorderly persons in that they had Insufficient means of support. Dillon pleaded guilty and was convicted and remanded till December 8 for a probation officer’s report and sentence. Senior-Sergeant Cleary said Dillon had admitted sleeping out for several nights and had 10s 2d in his pocket when arrested. McHerron pleaded not guilty and the hearing was adjourned to today. He told the Magistrate he had been trying to get a job. CONVICTED AND REMANDED John William Morgan, aged 36 was convicted and remanded on bail until December 6 for a probation officer’s report and sentence after he had pleaded guilty to charges of driving while disqualified from New Brighton road to Cashel street and supplying false information on November 15. Traffic-Sergeant H. J. McMorran said that about 8.25 p.m. on November 15 Morgan had driven a motor vehicle on New Brighton road. Fleete street, Mcßratneys road, Locksley avenue, Gloucester street, Linwood avenue and Cakhel street while disqualified. Morgan had been recognised by a traffic officer who suspected him of being a disqualified driver. Another officer was called who recognised Morgan.

Sergeant McMorran said that when stopped Morgan had given his name as Russell Hamilton. However he later admitted his name was John William Morgan.

REMANDED Patrick Frederick Mullally. aged 45, a truck driver (Mr S. G. Erber )was remanded in custody for a Lower Court hearing on December 7 when he appeared on a charge that on October 10 with intent he had caused grevious bodily harm to Kevin James Robert Mullally.

TRAFFIC CHARGES In other traffic charges brought by the Transport Department convictions were entered and penalties imposed as follows with Court costs of £1 10s on each charge.

Exceeded 30 miles an hour: Herbert Edward Muncaster O’Neill, £4; Raman Ganda, £4;

Mavis Clara Patrick, £3: John P. H. Palmer, £8; Bettina Sobiekl, £3; Anthon Gerald Ayers, £4: Ann Frances Clark, £4; Stephen Roy Gibson. £4: George Edward Ray, £4; Maurice George Neave. £5; Jan van der Splinter, £4; Gordon James Edward. £4; Peter John Samms, £6; Robert Toilkt Fryer, £4 (no safety helmet worn by pillion passenger, £2); Garth Wallace Gavin, £2 IDs; Trevor Martin Harris, £4; Johannu Jhon Ruynen, £4: Ronald Thomas Jeal, £4; Wayne Todd David McNeill. £10; Peter Robert McAlavey, £4; Frederick John Saver. £6; Helen Marie Ward, £4; Colin James Anthony, £8; Marie Jean Brawley, £4; John Russell Coveney, £4: John William Gardiner, £5; Thomas Edward Hall, £4; Maurice John Hickey, £4; Alan Rex Hussey, £4; Carl Anthony McMenimin, £4; Trevor John Mckeown, £4; Gilbert George Mooar, £5; Thomas Gordon Scandrett, £4; Frederick Alexander Ward, £5; Wayne William Wood. £4; Gary Robert Woods. £5.

Careless use: Eileen Ruth Rundell, £10; Graeme Eric Turton, £lO, disqualified for three months; Ross Desmond Fairley, £lO, disqualified for three months (no licence label affixed. £2); Noleen Gladstone Telford, £6, disqualified for three months (exceeded 55 miles per hour, £6); Henry Benjamin Meyer, £6, disqualified for two months, ordered to undergo a driving test; Robert Oliver Bramley, £5.

Failed to comply .. nn traffic lights: Anthony James Sparks, £3 (inappropriate licence, £2). Failed to remove glass from roadway: Geoffrey Charles Barr, £2. Failed to stop at stop sign: William Gordon Freeman, £3; Nick Hirstelis, £5; Clarence Thomas Bateman, £5; Edward Russell Collins, £3: Colin John Cooke, £7; John Sydney Overend, 3; Ramesh Paia, £3; William Peter Shearer, £3; Jean Climie, £3; Geoffrey Winston Peach, £3.

Exceeded 55 miles an hour: Kenneth Claude Cooper, £5; Neville Daniel Charles Sheehan, £l5 (failed to stop at compulsory stop, £3); Graeme Allan Thompson, £6; William lan Wood, £5; Arthur David Barnett, £6; Maurice Albert Fraser. £10; Barry Francis Dopps, £6; Kenneth Albert Cosgrove, £7: William Gordon Register, £6. Exceeded axle weight: Ellesmere Transport Company, £3 (exceeded heavy traffic licence, £5): B. J. Hale. Ltd., £4.

Exceeded 45 miles an hour with pillion passenger: Barry John Austin, £5, ordered to attend traffic lectures (exceeded 30 miles an hour with no safety helmet, £2): Graeme Eric Waites, £5 (exceeded 30 miles an hour with no safety helmet, £2).

Exceeded 30 miles an hour without safety helmet; Vincent Robert Brennan, £2: William Wickins. £3; Harry Watson, £2 (no warrant of fitness, £1); Raymond Samuel John Hawkins, £3; Barry Desmond Forbes, £4 (no ”L” plate displayed, £2). Failed to comply with traffic lights: Stanley Edgar Grimson, £5.

Permitted use of unlicensed motor vehicle: Keith GilliganKingsley, £2. Registration plate not affixed: Ronald Russell Taylor. £2 (no sun visor, £1).

Failed to display “L” plates: Janet Elizabeth Meares, £l.

Insecure trailer: John Edward Pawsey, £5. Failed to keep left: Gibson Pierce Luke, £7 IDs; Gary William Meyerhoff, £7 (defective construction of silencer, £4), disqualified from driving for three months; Brent Hinkley, £6, disqualified from driving for three months.

Stopped without consideration: Peter Deardon Meares, £5. Wrong class of driver’s licence: Andrew Bennet, £3. No driver’s licence: Christo, pher John Chaston, £4; Murray McGregor Wilson, £5. No warrant of fitness: Robin David Allan, £1; Andrew John Bruce, £3 (unlicensed motor vehicle, £10), disqualified from driving for six months. Speed too great to stop in half clear distance: Raymond Francis Henderson, £7; Anthony Cameron Lewis, £7,

Failed to produce driver’s licence: Clifford Burnard Wells, £5 (exceeded 30 m.p.h., £5).

(Before Messrs W. E. Olds and R. W. Gormack, Justices of the

Peace) HEARING ADJOURNED

One charge of attempted abortion and three charges of unlawfully using an instrument with Intent to procure a miscarriage against Florence Kathleen Wilson, aged 41, a shopkeeper (Mr G. R. Lascelles) were adjourned to December 6 after 11 of the 18 prosecution witnesses had been heard.

The charges covered various periods between August 1 and October 21. Wilson was remanded on bail.