MAGISTRATES COURT Probation For False Pretences And Restitution Ordered

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31278, 26 January 1967, Page 8

MAGISTRATES COURT Probation For False Pretences And Restitution Ordered

“A man in your financial position cannot afford the luxury of two wives,” Mr E. A. Lee, S.M., told Dennis Leslie Anderson, a 24-year-old driver, whom he sentenced in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday for false pretences.

Anderson, separated from his wife and living with another woman, had obtained £3O from the Post Office by inserting a figure in his sav-ings-bank book when pressed to pay maintenance money. Money spent by Anderson in keeping another woman in some immoral association had led to his offences, said the Magistrate. “But your financial problems are no excuse for this type of conduct,” he said.

Anderson, a first offender, was placed on 18 months’ probation, and ordered to make £3O restitution, and pay £lO towards the cost of his prosecution, at the rate of £2 a week. He had previously pleaded guilty to two charges. Anderson had opened a Post Office savings account on December 15 with a £3 deposit, and after inserting a figure “5” in front had gone next day to the Hornby and Sockburn Post Offices and made withdrawals of £2O and £lO. The forgery was a stupid one, and was bound to be detected, the Magistrate said. CARELESS DRIVING CAUSING DEATH The S-bend and railway crossing on the Main North road between Glasnevin and Waipara was described by Mr A. Hearn as “a trap for drivers,” when speaking on behalf of Stephen John O’Brien, aged 18, a labourer, sentenced for careless driving causing death. O’Brien, one of whose passengers, Peter James Duncan, was killed when his car overturned at the crossing on November 11, was fined £4O and disqualified from driving for two years, after pleading guilty to the charge. Mr Hearn, after describing the S-bend, which occurs between two long, straight stretches of road, said it was a notorious place for accidents, some of which had already been fatal. O’Brien came from the West Coast, and was not familiar with this trap.

O’Brien’s party, said Mr Hearn, had purchased liquor, and consumed some in the car during the journey, but O’Brien, as the driver, had made a point of taking none. Because of these mitigating circumstances, M r Hearn asked that O’Brien’s licence to drive be not taken away. The Magistrate said that O’Brien must have passed road signs, which he should have seen had he been keeping a proper look ; out. “No matter how much remorse he may feel, the Court’s disapproval must be expressed in its penalty,” he said. ASSAULT ON WOMAN James Edwards, aged 27, a wool-presser (Mr M. J. Glue), who pleaded guilty to punching a woman at "a rather sordid drinking party” on December 22, was convicted and fined £lO, in default 12 days’ imprisonment. Edwards, said Sergeant V. F. Townshend, had began talking to the complainant, Jennifer Dorothy Weir, about her past, became very abusive, and when told to desist punched her heavily in the face.- Edwards had 18 previous convictions. Mr Glue said the episode, which occurred at an all-night drinking party “of a rather sordid pattern," reflected no credit on either party. Edwards had suffered considerable provocation, in that the complainant had been teasing and “niggling” him all night. IDLE AND DISORDERLY William Weir, an 18-year-old Australian youth, said to nave been living in filthy conditions in a flat with two other youths and two girls, and not to have worked since his arrival in New Zealand 16 days ago, pleaded guilty to being idle and disorderly in that he had insufficient lawful means of support on January 24, and was convicted and remanded to February 1 for a probation report and sentence. Weir had only 2d on his person when arrested, the court was told. WARRANTS FOR ARREST A bench warrant was issued for the arrest of Charles Eric Paterson, a 51-year-old schoolteacher, charged with driving in Fcndalton road under the influence of drink or drugs, after his counsel, Mr L. M. O’Reilly, had said Paterson had left the country. Paterson had been on bail without requirement of reporting to the police. A similar warrant was issued for the arrest of Allan Mac-kenzie-Aitcheson, aged 50. a freezing worker, after he failed to answer to a charge of being found unlawfully in an enclosed yard at 104 Papanui road on December 9. but without intent to commit other crime. Mackenzie-Aitcheson had been at the Queen Mary Hospital. Hanmer Springs, said Sergeant Townshend, but his whereabouts was now unknown. FALSE PRETENCES Cecil John Frederick Graham, aged 30, a painter, charged with a series of seven false pretences at Invercargill over the New Year period, pleaded guilty to a further charge of obtaining £5 from Graham’s Garage, Christchurch, on January 4 by means of a false cheque, and wa.s remanded to February 1. Mr D. M. Palmer sought bail for Graham but it was refused in view of the number of charges against him. VAGABONDAGE CHARGES Peter Lloyd Machirus, aged 21, a freezing worker, and Trevor David Smith, aged 21, a pipe-fitter (Mr G. R. Lascelles), both charged with being rogues and vagabonds in that they frequented Ferry road on January 18 with felonious intent, were remanded to January 27. Bail was refused both men. BOOKMAKING CHARGE Allan Francis Cunard, a butcher (Mr P. G. S. Penlington), charged with bookmaking on December 17 last, was remanded to January 31, bail being renewed. STOLE BICYCLE George Raymond Burnett Newman, aged 19, a storeman, who pleaded guilty to the theft of a £l2 bicycle, from his nextdoor neighbour’s home on January 13, was convicted and remanded to February 1 for a probation report and sentence. Newman was detected through a routine police check at a cycle dealer's shop, to which he had sold the machine. New-

man had 21 previous convictions, Sergeant Townshend said. , DAMAGE NOT REPORTED Leslie William Norman Benbow, aged 31. a boilerman, who skidded on a wet road and struck a telephone pole on November 17, causing £l6 worth of damage, was convicted and fined £7 10s after pleading guilty to failure to report the damage to the Post Office within 48 hours.

Benbow said that as the accident happened only a few doors from where he was living in Bexley road, Aranui, he thought the Post Office men would have called to see him when they came to repair the pole. “But how were the Post Office men to know who had caused the damage?” said the Magistrate. CAR-OWNERSHIP CHARGES For failing to notify the deputy-registrar of motorvehicles of the sale of cars, within seven days, the following were convicted and fined: Cornelius Geradus de Rutter, £1; David Charles Green, £1; Robin Edward Hili, £2; Pieter Verkerk. £l. TRAFFIC CHARGES On undefended traffic charges, convictions were entered, and fines imposed, as follows: Opened car door with likelihood of injury to others: Brenda Doreen Pimm, £5. Failed to give way: Barry Carmichael, £10; Gray Mutu Horo, £10; Sioeli Pangia Matoto, £5; Michael Charles Narbey, £6. Drove carelessly: Graham Acheson Trotter, £7 10s (exceeding 30 miles an hour, £4). DEFENDED CHARGE On a charge of careless driving of a motor-cycle on McGregors road, Linwood, on September 4, Phillip Rex Robinson, an engineering apprentice (Mr P. G. S. Penlington), who pleaded not guilty, was convicted and fined £lO, and disqualified from driving for six months. Evidence was given that Robinson’s machine struck a roadside pole, with injury to himself and a girl pillion passenger. TRAFFIC CASES Other traffic charges brought by the Transport Department were (court costs £1 10s in each case):—

Exceeding 30 miles an hour: Irene Alberts, £4; Ronald Alan Ball, £4; Ronald Turner Barnett, £4; Peter Alan Beecroft, £4; Barry William Bloomfield, £4; Neville Douglas Boon. £6, and ordered to attend traffic lectures; Beverley Ann Bray, £5; Terry Alexander Brougham, £4; Guy Dewsbury Broadhurst, £4; Kevin Thomas Bryant, £6, and to attend traffic lectures; Kenneth Gordon Brown, £6, and disqualified from driving for three months; Raymond Leonard Brown, £5; Ronald Mervyn Brown, £5; Deirdre Sydney Bullivant, £5; Thomas Reid Caldwell, £5; Alan John Cameron, £4; Anthony George Cranfield, £7 10s; John Stephen Canham, £4; Tweenie Patricia Carr, £4: George Duncan Clark, £6; Linus Henry Constable, £4; Angus Setter Copland, £5; Thomas Royce Court, £5; George Herbert Cross, £5; James Herbert Dell, £4: Gary William Didham, £5 (no driver’s licence, £2, no safety helmet, £3), and to attend traffic lectures; Barry Reginald Dixon, £4; Harold William Douglas, £5; Colin Stanley Duncan, £6 (no safety helmet, £3), and to attend traffic lectures; John Maxwell Dunphy, £4; Francis Douglas Eggleton, £4; Jennifer Mary Forbes, £5; David Bruce Garing, £4; Noel Doyle Grant, £4; Neville Francis Guthrie, £5, and to attend traffic lectures; Peter Robinson Hadley, £4; Raymond lan Hale, £5; Phyllis Hammond, £5; Brian Cecil Harris, £4; Frederick John Henshaw, £5; John Morley Hetherington, £5; Peter Raymond Hawkins, £5; Durham Dowell Hunter, £4; Charles Alexander Johnson, £4; David Paul Journee, £3; Gary Robert Kennington, £5: Kelvin Gerrard Kent, £7; Alan Richard Kennard, £5; Jan Lammerink, £5; Alexander Latham, £4; Irvan William Legat, £5; Mervyn Luke, £5, and disqualified for three months; Rex John Macauley, £4; Alan James McKinnel, £4; Miriam Joan McHugh, £4; Barbara Ruth McLay, £5; Fay Margaret Morgan, £4; Kenneth Barry Mills, £6; Bruce Hilton Murdoch, £5 (no warrant of fitness, £1); Graeme Newton, £3 (no driver’s licence, £5, no warrant of fitness, £2), and disqualified for three months: Neill William Noonan, £4; John Wayne Palmer, £4; Athaiie Pocock, £4; lan Joseph Purdon, £5; Ivan Alfred Rowntree, £4: Marcelle Alice Ryland, £5; Desmond Noel Samson, £5; Gilbert Charles Scarrot, £5; Joseph Hohepa Shortland, £4; Trevor Rex John Skilton, £4; Donald Malcolm Smythe, £5: Harold William Stevens, £4; Vincent Haveland Stevens, £5; Hector Muir Stewart, £4; Alexander William Smith. £5; Dudley Ray Slee, £4; Ruth Hill Sutton, £4; Donna Lillian Sullivan, £4; Clive Banks Syme, £4; Sydney Mathew Thompson, £7; John Wetherall Trott, £4; Gordon Francis Trotter, £4; Eugene Wayne Turina, £5; Henry William Vannoort £4; Frank Edward Vercoe. £4; Henderius Cornelius Verheul, £6; Douglas Alfred Whittle, £4; Harold David Watson, £5; Lloyd Whitcombe, £5; Raymond Bernard Williams, £5; Robert John Woodham, £5; William John Henry Wood, £4; Malcolm William Yeates, £5: Wynne Margaret Yeatman, £5. . Careless driving: Ralph Toki, Crossing against traffic lights: Lindsay t Eric Gibb, £lO (no driver’s licence, £2). (Before Messrs L. H. Petrie and G. W. Fairweather, Justices of the Peace.) COMMITTED FOR TRIAL In spite of submissions by counsel, Mr M. F. Hobbs, that the prosecution had “failed abysmally” to produce a case fit to be heard by a jury, Carnegie Neilson, aged 42, a carpenter, was committed to the Supreme Court for trial on a charge of receiving carpenter’s tools valued at £56 7s, knowing them to have been dishonestly obtained. The tools, the property of Frederick Pooley, were alleged to have fallen into Neilson s hands between September 25 and November 28, 1966. Leicester Manifold Clements, aged 49, a van driver, was also committed to the Supreme Court for trial on a charge of threatening to cause bodily harm to Donald Henry McGeachie, on October 22. elements, who was represented bv Mr B. J. Drake, was remanded to Sunnyside Hospital in the interim. Noel James Quirke, aged 25. a panelbeater, pleaded not guilty and was committed for trial at the Supreme Court, after depositions had been ta Qu?rke was charged with attempting to break and ente £ Rayner Vile Jewellers Ltd., 4-6 McKenzie Arcade, on December 3 1966. He was represented by Mr J. K. Fuimaono.

(Before Messrs D V. WiUoii and C B. Phillips, Justices of the Peace.) REMANDED John Henry Melhopt, aged 24. a labourer, was remanded under section 37 of the Mental Health Act until February 8 for observation and a .P?xehiatrlc report after depositions had been taken on a charge against Melhopt of atte mP„ n * baby girl, aged 20 months, on December 18. No plea was taken? Mr M. J. Glue appeared for the accused. The all witnesses were suppressed.

(Before Mr E. S. J. Crutchlev, I S.M.) TRAFFIC CHARGES I In prosecutions brought by I the Transport Department, convictions were entered and fines imposed as follows (Court costs £1 10s in each case): Careless driving: Roger Ferguson Gunn, £5; Ernest John Jackson, £lO, and disqualified from driving for six months. Driving at dangerous speed: Kevin Eric Stitt, £lO (no red rear lights, £1). Driving at a speed too great for safety: John Robert Sampson, £7. Exceeding 55 miles an hour: Leslie Burley Trebilcock, £7; Stanley Lawrence Davis, £l2 10s (exceeding 30 miles an hour, £5, no warrant of fitness, 10s. failed to produce drivers licence, £3, having an insecure trailer, £5; no red rear lights, £1); Robert James Bendy. £6; Gregory George Davison, £7 10s, and disqualified from driving for three months (giving false particulars, £5, no driver’s licence, £3, exceeding 30 miles

an hour, £7 10s); Russell Douglas Smith, £7. Exceeding 40 miles an hour with a trailer: John Lancaster, £6. Exceeding 30 miles an hour carrying a pillion passenger without a safety helmet: Phillip John Armitage, £2. Exceeding 30 miles an hour: Morris Reid Wellington, £2; Hugh Herbert McMillian. £4; Roger William Gibbons, £2; Gavin Richard Hayton, £7 10s; Clarence Ivan Reid, £6; William Frederick John Hatcher, £4;

Graham George Nevell, £5; John McKenzie Scott, £5; Kevin Brian Anstiss, £7; Kenneth Gordon Brown, £2 10s (no warrant of fitness. £1); Garry Raymond Johanis, £3; David Barlass, £2; Peter Gerald Penrose, £2 (failing to produce driver’s licence, £7 10s); Grant Patrick Petrie, £5; Stephen Robert Smith, £3 (no safety helmet, £2); Stuart Duthrie Wyber, £3; Albert Barnett, £4; Michael Green, £3; Selwyn Murray Johns, £5; Brian Sydney Keeley, £6; James Richard Henry Roberts, £4; Raymond George Rosewarne, £3; Keith Joseph Gallagher, £3; Bruce Gordon Campbell, £5: Cedric Alexander Berry, £4; Spiro Cosmatos, £5; Leonard Hampton Duffield. £3 (no warrant of fitness, £3); Selwyn Edward Fantham, £5; Lloyd Gable. £5 (failing to produce driver’s licence. £5); David McKay Gardiner, £3; Helen Shirley Jemmett, £7 10s; Henry David Little, £4; Samuel Manawatu, £5; Maurice Thomas Morgan, £8; Stephen Thomas Parker, £4; William John Thomson, £5; Daryel Percasky, £7 10s; Tawheo Kawana Bowen, £10; Diane Ann Baker, £5; Maurice James Benbow, £l5 (no warrant of fitness, £3); William Alfred Collins. £4; Lawrence Alvyn Douglas, £2; Sydney John Harkess, £4; William Henry Hunt, £5; Colin Clifford Hurrell, £5, and disqualified from driving for one month; lan Kelvin Jackson, £4; Albert Gerald Merchant, £4; Geoffrey Russell Neville, £8: Brian John Phillips. £5: Allan Thomas Pluck, £2: lan Charles West, £2; Mathew Joseph Wildermoth, £lO, and disqualified from driving for three months; Ray Burt Anderson, £2; Graham Campbell Ball, £4; Lionel Ernest Barkle, £4; Peter Esmond Chapman. £5; John Graham Clark, £4: James Alexander Dalzell, £4; Peter Gavan Davidson, £4: David William Donaldson, £4: Harvey Henry Dovey, £4; Cyril William Edwards, £6; Peter Everett. £4: Mervyn Colin Flanagan, £7 10s: Grahame Merideth Forgie, £5; Lindsay Clifford Gillard. £3: Donald Arthur Holmes, £2; Allan Ruban Howard, £7: Robert Stuart William Inkster, £4: Roydon Benyon Jenkins, £4; Steven Harvey Johnson, £4. Thomas Moffat Anderson, £5; Peter Arona, £4; John Warwick Ashby, £6; John Richard Bancroft. £5, and disqualified from driving for three months; Edgars

Bekeris, £4; Roy Charles Bonney, £6; Wilson Burns, £3; Colin Elan Drummond, £.’>; Alasteur Charles Corbett, £5; David James Fenton, £4; Raymond Kevin Garlick, £4; Alexander Graham, £10; Bruce Alexander Grant. £7 10s; William Joseph Henderson, £7 10s; Edwin James Lewis. £4; Alison Mary McDonald, £5; Anthony James McLauchltn, £6; Alan McLeod, £4; James Stenson Malhieson. £4; Neville John Mills, £4; Charles Derek Ogilvie, £10; David Ross Watson Robertson Bayly, £8; Trevor Alan Rogers, £8; Dexter Sinclair, £6; Margaret June Van Schreven. £1 10s (no driver's licence. £3); Ronald Evan Watkins. £4; Antonius Cornelius Maria Wenneker, £2 (no warrant of fitness. £2); Ralph James Keen, £4; Barry John Kirwan. £3; Graeme Morris Lambic, £5; Bruce McCormick, £4; Lawrence Wingfield Madden. £5; Mary Eve Montgomery, £4; Yep Ye Ng, £6; John Michael Quinn, £4; John Grant Russell, £3; Gavin Percy Charles Roberts. £4; John Francis Robins, £4 (failing to produce driver’s licence, £5); Rex Scharnwebber, £6; John McKenzie Scott. £5; Bruce Frederick Smith, £5; George Frederick Weeks. £4; William Wallace White, £4. Shek Jan Heng Yee, £4,

Failed to stop at a compulsory stop: Edwin Maurice Wilson, £7: Muriel Douglas Wootton, £5; Trevor Rapley, £3; Heather Elizabeth Kidson, £2. Failing to give way at sign: Hans Van der Molin. £7 and disqualified from driving for one month. Crossing against lights: Edward Frank Hughes, £5; Graeme Stanley Brown. £5. Parking offences: Harold Jones, £5. Cutting corner: Barry Ainslie Varcoe, £6. Following too closely: Anthony Lloyd Weston, £6. Overtaking on the left: Roger Malcolm Williams, £5. No driver’s licence: Kevin Alan Dale, £lO and disqualified from driving for six months (insufficient lights, £3); Bruce Hood, £5. Failing to produce driver’s licence: Keith William Adamson. £5; Larry Kevin Small, £5 (insufficient lights. £5); Anthony Maddock, £5 (crossing against lights. £10). No warrant of fitness: Owen Stanley Livingstone, £2 (no driver’s licence, £7); Maurice Edward Mahoney, £2: John Bruce Tait. £2 (unlicensed trailer, £2; Colin John Hill. £3 (exceeding 30 miles an hour without safety helmet, £3): Frank Earnest Huria, £1: Sydney David Gibbs, £2; Doreen Margaret Sullivan, £2; James David Edmonds, £1; Barry Houghton, £1 10s: Kevin John Howie, £3 (failing to produce driver’s licence, £5). Exceeding permitted axle weight: Selwyn Casewoods, Ltd., £5; Prendevllle Carrying Company, £1; A.K. Transport, Ltd., £3 (exceeding limit of heavy traffic licence, £2); Frews Motors, Ltd., £5: Mid-Canter-bury Transport, Ltd.. £5. Permitting unlicensed person to drive: Muriel Georgina Fisher, £3. Failing to carry a heavy traffic licence: Godfrey King, £2; George Andrew Logan, £3. Licence not affixed: Hugh Albert McSavency, £1 10s (no warrant of fitness. £1 10s). Failing to display “L” label: Anthony George Maugcr, £2. No red rear light: Ronald Robert George Mahoney, £7 10s; Lawrence David Stove, £lO. Insufficient lights: Ralph Jeffrey Bond. £7 10s; Brian Leslie Wendt, £3. Insecure trailer: Ivy Aroha Williams, £3. In a prosecution brought by the Police Department, convictions were entered and fines imposed as follows: Failing to stop after an accident: Bruce Lewis, Giddens. £2O and disqualified from driving for three months (failing io ascertain if an injury had occurred, £3O).