MAGISTRATE'S COURT Fined £40 And Disqualified For Dangerous Driving

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31349, 20 April 1967, Page 7

MAGISTRATE'S COURT Fined £40 And Disqualified For Dangerous Driving

While he was being followed by a traffic officer, Cranston Benjamin Lewis, aged 44, a hotel manager, swerved across the road several times, going into the shingle verge on the righthand side of the road at least twice, Mr P. L. Molineaux, SJM., was told in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday. Lewis (Mr B. McClelland) was convicted and fined f4O and disqualified from driving for one year on a charge of dangerous driving. A further charge of driving while under the influence of drink or drugs was dismissed. He pleaded not guilty to both charges. Traffic Officer L. B. Bolton said he followed the defendant along Springs road, Hornby. “When I tried to overtake his car, the defendant swerved to the incorrect side of the road, and I was forced into the shingle. We were travelling about 35 miles an hour,” he said. “He was unsteady on his feet and had to hold on to my car for support, when I apprehended him.” The Magistrate said there was not sufficient evidence before him to convict on the drunken driving charge, but the manner of the defendant’s driving was dangerous. MENTAL SUPERVISION

A young woman, whose name was suppressed, was remanded under Section 37 of the Mental Health Act to Sunnyside Hospital for one month when she appeared for sentence on five charges of theft. She had earlier been convicted on five charges of theft to a total value of £276.

Mr R. S. D. Twyneham, for the woman, said she had a background of mental upset and that she had taken the rings to give herself the fantasy of being engaged to be married to a married man she was keeping company with. DROVE UNDER INFLUENCE Ronald Edgar Waasell, aged 52, a barman, was convicted and fined £4O and disqualified from driving for three years on a charge of driving while under the influence of alcohol in Latimer square on April IS. He pleaded guilty. Sergeant A. D. Stevenson said Waasell was seen to drive his car on to the wrong side of the road In Latimer square. He was later certified as being unfit to drive. He said Wasaell admitted having drunk about 10 or 15 whiskies earlier. STOLE RADIO AND RAZOR

Gary McDonald, aged 20, unemployed, was remanded on bail to April 20 for sentence on two charges of theft to which he pleaded guilty. He admitted stealing a transistor radio, valued at £2O, from a stand at Mackay, Ltd., on the same date. He also admitted taking an electric razor valued at £lO from a display stand at Calder Mackay’s, Ltd. on ths same date. Roger Leslie Graham, aged 17, unemployed, and Sydney David Gibbs, aged 20, also unemployed, were each convicted and remanded on bail to April 20 when they pleaded guilty to receiving goods from McDonald on April 17. knowing them to be stolen. FINED £25 Warren James O’Connor, aged 17, a stacker, was fined £25 when he appeared for sentence on a charge of harbouring an escaper from the Ferry road Child Welfare Home between March 13 and 10. The Magistrate said he would give O’Connor a final chance in view of his efforts to rehabilitate himself and would not place him in a penal institution. THEFT Ferderick Arthur Smith, unemployed. was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence within six months if called on when he appeared for sentence on two charges of theft from two shops in Sydenham on February 3.

, LIQUOR OFFENCES Ngaire J. Rudman, aged 19, was convicted and fined £3 for

being a minor found in the bar of the Ruasley Hotel on February 11 and convicted and fined £5 for giving false particulars of her age to the police on the same date. She pleaded guilty by letter to both charges. TRAFFIC OFFENDERS Traffic offenders were penalised as follows, with court costs of 30s in each case:— Careless use.—Paul William Stibbling, £10; Stephen Kevin Hall, £7 and disqualified from driving for 3 months. Failing to stop at sign.—Noel Stanley Spiers, £6. (Before Mr J. D. Kinder, S.M.) SUICIDE PACT A woman, whose name was suppressed In the interim (Mr J. W. Dalmer), pleaded guilty to a charge that on February 15 she was a party to the death of an elderly man in that she entered into a suicide pact with the man and in pursuance of the pact the man had killed himself.

She was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. Bail was allowed.

Detective Senior-Sergeant A. E. V. Yaxley said when he had interviewed the woman at a hospital where she was recovering from carbon monoxide poisoning she said that everything had gone wrong for her and the dead man.

She had agreed to a proposal from the dead man that they should end everything by gassing themselves.

HARBOURED ESCAPER Daniel Alfred Gapo, aged 22, a carpenter (Mr J. R. Milligan), pleaded not guilty to a charge that on March 3 he harboured a girl, an escaper from a child welfare institution. He was convicted and remanded in custody for a probation officer’s report and sentence tomorrow. CIVIL CASE Judgment for £256 with costs and witnesses’ expenses was given for the plaintiff, Agricultural and Livestock Services, Ltd., Christchurch (Mr R. J. de Gold!), against Brian James Moore, a public accountant (Mr A. Hearn), in a reserved decision given yesterday.

The Magistrate said in his view the defendant had committed the plaintiff, who was claiming £668 19s 2d, to a tenancy involving payment of an unnecessarily high rent and in doing so failed to exercise the skill and ability and experience normally expected of his profession and which the plaintiff was reasonably entitled to expect. (Before Mr E. A. Lee, S.M.) GAOL FOR THEFT Joseph William Devereux, aged 23, a driver (Mr A. P. C. Tipping), was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment on a charge of theft of a leather wallet valued at £2, the property of Susan Lynette Painter, on February 25. A further charge of theft of a driver’s licence and a set of car ownership papers, the property of Robert John Bell, was dismissed after the prosecution evidence had been heard.

Detective Sergeant A. B. Dalzell said Devereux was at present serving a term of imprisonment of one year for unlawful entry of a building. The Magistrate made the term cumulative on the present term. (Before Mr H. J. Evans, S.M.) TRAFFIC CASES In traffic cases brought by the Christchurch City Council traffic department convictions were entered and fine* imposed as follows with court costa £1 10s on each charge. Proceeded when the way was not clear: William Lynsky, £l2.

Exceeded 55 miles an hour: Barnabus Ernest Briston, £3 10s; Raymond Irvan Templeton, £6; Samuel Chester Graham, £5 10s; Douglas Lynton, £5; Richard Owen Marshall, £7 10s; Brian John Petrie, £7; Desmond Felix McEvedy, £5 10s; Thomas Miles Mcßrearty, £4; Neil Charles Smith, £5 10s.

Exceeded 40 mdiles an hour with a trailer: George Robert Ballinger, £7; Owen Robert Brownlee, £l2; John Heaton, £l2; Archibald Herbert Kennedy, £10; Murry Alfred Nicolle, £10; Stanley George RobdfliHard, £8 10®. Exceeded 30 miles an hour: Graham Dudley Chambers, £4; Brian James Beattie, £8 10s; Wallace Ernest Davidson, £5; Kevin Roy Duck, £8 10s (unable to stop in half clear distance, £8 10s); Leo Emerson, £3; Rodney Athel Hall, £lO (threw glass in public place, £5); Maurice Joseph Harnett, £5; Charles Francis HOoper, costs; James lan King, £4; James Maurice MacConnell, £lO (failed to display L pilates, £3); Keith Stuart Mdiils, £8; Barry Johnson Newbury, £6; Hendrick Den Ouden, £5; James Alexander Palmer, £7; Brian Porter, £7 10s; Norman McDonald Price, £7 10s; Kevin' Ford, £8; Meryle Winifred Rippin, £4; Albertus Van Zoggel, £7 10s; David Lesdle Marra, £7;

Desmond Francis Hurley, 49; Clive Grahame Dyson, 46; Donald Mlln, 43: Warwick Duckworth Guild, £5; John Llewellyn Pligh, £7 10s; Cornelius Den Haring, £4; Alons Mary Chandler, £5; Robert Anthony Cole. £7 (driving without consideration, £3; Clifford Hugh Irvine. £5 10s; Keith Walter Davidson, £8 10s; Ana Peters, £7 10s; Noel Christopher Benney, £6; Jennifer Robinson, £5; Kenneth William Sutton, £6; Larry Edward Brown, £8; Robert Marie Coune, £8 10s; Briglid Askyn Pope, £8 10s; John Stanley Hinds, £8; Margaret Mary Housley, £8; Maurice Andrew Kidd, £5 10s; Murray Harvey Lang, £8 10s; Patrick Michael Joseph Melville, £6; Jan Murray, £7; Keith Norman Rhlnd, £5 10s; Roger Clifford Scott, £lO (disqualified from driving for one month); Patrick Erin Smith, £8; Juliet Cynthia Stewart, £7 10s; Bruce Paul Williams, £l5; Noel Reece Andreassend, £6 (no warrant of fitness, £l, disqualified from driving for one month); Lancelot James Crans. ton, £6; Colin William Dickson, £5; Barry Francis Giiiman, £6; Kerrln James Smythe, £7; lan William Walker, £7. No warrant of fitness: Kevin Howie, £7 (failed to produce driver's licence, £4); Thomas Henry Black, £1 10s; Richard George Brtttenden, £4 (no driver’s licence, £4); Alan Paul Haymon, £3. No warrant of fitness: Kevin Francis Murphy, £3; George Joseph Parker, £1 (failed to produce driver’s licence, £4); Michael John Stevens, £3; John Arthur WliiUam Speak, £1; Kevin Barry CarroH, £1; Kevin John Higgins, Ids (unlicensed motor vehicle, £4); Brian James Diekin, £1 (unlicensed motor vehicle, £10); Arie Stlkkelman, £2 (no red rear light, £3, failed to produce driver’s licence, £3). Exceeded 30 miles an hour without a safety helmet: Lindsay Richard Marshall, £2 10s; Peter Charles Agnew, £4. No heavy traffic licence: Michael James McQutre, £5; Clifford Richard Melhopt, £6; Charles Alfred Ownsworth, £5 (failed to produce driver’s licence, £5); Stone Carrying Co., Ltd., £7. Used licence to which extraneous matter had been added: Frederick Joseph Macey, costs (exceeded 30 miles an hour, £6 10s).

Followed too close: Kevin Francis Harris 46 (no warrant of fitness. £1).

Failed to stop at stop sigh: Rance Edward Dunn £4. Drove in a dangerous manner: Gregory George Davison, £2O and licence cancelled for two years (exceeded 30 miles an hour without safety helmet, convicted and discharged). Proceeded against traffic lights: Conway Joseph Ferguson £lO (failed to produce driver’s licence £4); Michael Kenneth Bamford £8 10s; Roy Allan Love £8 10s; William Forsyth £6. Unlicensed goods service vehicle: Gill Construction Co. Ltd., £2 10s (no heavy traffic licence £2 10s).

Exceeded 45 miles an hour with pillion passenger: Dennis Murray Drinkwater £3 10s (exceeded 30 miles an hour without safety helmet £3 10s). Exceeded axle weight limit: Masonry Services, Ltd., £5. No effective rear vision mirror: Raymond Joseph McQuarters 43.

Drove without reasonable consideration: Dean Colin Maxwell Langdon 48; Samuel James Miller a 10s.

Failed to dip lights: Harold Robert Horne 44 10s; John Charles Payne £2 10s. Careless driving: John Drummond £l5 and licence cancelled for six months; Darryl George Burrow £10; Graeme James Eaton £4; Robert Smart Smith £4 10s. Interfered with traffic sign: Dennis Noel Cantwell £7 10s. Exceeded 40 miles an hour with heavy motor vehicle: James Middleton £8 10s. Failed to display L plates: Arthur Delatour Johnston, costs; Steven Harvey Johnson. £3.

Failed to give way: Reginald William Godart £3 10s.

Exceeded temporary speed limit: Deteus Johannus Bohm £5; Alexander Alfred Jack £6.

Trailer not securely attached: Kenneth Sargent Boyce £3 (no warrant of fitness 10); Peter John Levy £4 (no warrant of fitness £3, failed to produce driver’s licence, costs only); Gerardus van Haandel £6; Barry Raymond Hunt £4 (no warrant of fitness £1).

Exceeded heavy traffic licence: Russell Andrew Smith £1; Palmer Dally Freight £5 (exceeded axle weight £5); Christchurch Ready Mix Concrete, Ltd., £4 (exceeded axle weight £4); C. E. Gwatkin and Company, Ltd., £4. Wrong class of driver's licence: Mary Rose Griffiths 42 10s.

No driver’s licence: Kenneth Sidney Johns 48, disqualified from driving for six months. Failed to produce licence: Malcolm John McCullock £3 10«; Ben Taylor £3. Failed to stop at compulsory stop: Jean Wadel Anderson £3. Unregistered motor vehicle: Isaac Construction Company, Ltd., £5.