MAGISTRATE’S COURT Youth Sentenced To Gaol For Careless Use Of Car

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31365, 10 May 1967, Page 15

MAGISTRATE’S COURT Youth Sentenced To Gaol For Careless Use Of Car

"I am obliged to counsel for bringing to my notice the various ameliorating phases of this accident for my consideration—but human life has been taken.” said Mr P. L. Molineaux, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday when he sent a 17-year-old youth to prison for 14 days on a charage of careless use of a car causing death, on January 27. John Edward Pounsford, a boilermaker's apprentice, was appearing for sentence on that charge, for failing to report an accident as soon as practicable, and for aiding a minor to purchase liquor.

Pounsford was also disqualified from driving for three years on the first charge and was convicted and discharged on the other two. The Magistrate said that the penalty meted out by the courts in this type of offence could not be compensatory. “I have spent some considerable time on this matter and some term of imprisonment is necessary. Had he not driven so fast, the baby would have lived,” said the Magistrate. Pounsford had taken his grandfather’s car without permission.

Counsel for Pounsford, Mr J. S. Bisphan, submitted that the tragic consequences of the accident arose from sheer misfortune, and that the driver of the other car involved was guilty of some contributory negligence. The accident had not been reported because the defendant was a very frightened boy who was just out of school. The experience had had a very serious effect on him. DISMISSED

“Morally, socially and ethically, the defendant should have backed up his wife’s decision to Invite him (a stepson) to tea. Legally he may have been right,” said the Magistrate in dismissing a charge of assault against Alan Francis Cecil Rushton, a fire station officer. Rushton (Mr R. Kerr) was charged with assaulting Brent William John Howard, his stepson, on March 27. The Magistrate said there was no question of the defendant’s right or authority to order the boy out of the house. He was entitled to use a reasonable amount of force. PLEA -CHANGED Alan Hugh Stevenson, aged 40, a railway worker (Mr R. J. de Goldi), altered his plea to one of not guilty and was remanded until May 24 on a charge of indecently assaulting a girl under the age of 12 years. Bail was allowed. PROBATION “On the assumption that only one cheque was made out . . . 1 accept counsel’s submission," said the Magistrate when Seddon Walter Edwin Hall, aged 28, a salesman, appeared for sentence on charges of theft, false pretences and forgery. Hall (Mr A. P. C. Tipping) was placed on probation for 18 months and fined a total of £5O.

“This is his fourth conviction for theft. It’s pretty obvious where ultimately this conduct will lead him," said the Magistrate. Mr Tipping said that Hall was in a serious state of tension at the time of the offences. He had been drinking and this was a considerable lesson to him on the dangers of liquor. (Before Mr K. H. J. Headifen, S.M.) BOMB SCARE CHARGE Leonie Phyllis Bailey, aged 28, a machinist (Mr R. G. Blunt), was committed for trial to the Supreme Court at Christchurch on a charge of using a telephone to give a fictitious message to Petty Officer R. E. Teeters, an officer at the United States Navy Base at Harewood, on March 8. Marrion Beatrice Gleave, a telephone operator at the United States Base, said she received a telephone call about 9 p.m. on March 8 from a woman who sounded “highly strung." The caller asked Gleave if a United State* plane had left earlier from Harewood airport. “ When Gleave said it had left the caller said: “Fetch it down at once."

The woman told Gleave that she had overhead a man in a bar saying that he had put a bomb in a passenger’s bag in the aircraft because the passenger had been going out with his wife. Gleave said she put the call through to Petty Officer Teeters and listened In to make sure she told him the same thing.Lieutenant E. F. SuiUvan, of the United States Navy, said he called the Harewood control tower after the phone call and asked them to tell the aircraft about the bomb scare. The plane later landed at Ohakea. He instructed that no publicity be given to the possible bomb scare. Anne Kumeroa Fletcher, a spray painter, said she had known Bailey for some years and on the night the plane had left Harewood was there to see a friend off. The next day she met Bailey at the Execlsior Hotel and Bailey asked her “if the boys were back." Bailey said she thought the plane would be back because she had rung the previous night and told the United States Navy Base that there was a bomb on the plane that had just left. DISQUALIFIED Robert Frederick Shackel, aged 18. a labourer, was convicted and fined £2O and disqualified from driving for 18 months when he pleaded guilty to a charge of driving in a manner which might have been dangerous in the Spreydon shopping centre. He pleaded guilty to the Charge. Traffic Sergeant H. J. McMorran said Shackel drove through the shopping area on a FridajA afternoon at speeds between '45 and 47 miles an hour. Shackel also pleaded guilty to a .charge of having no warrant of fitness and was fined £3. TRAFFIC CASES In other traffic prosecutions convictions were entered and fines imposed as follows with court costs of £1 10s. on each charge. Exceeded 30 miles an hour: Charles Ernest Bowen, £6: Ernest James Blair, £6; Robert George Butler, £5; Colin Gerald DeanT £5; Colin William Dickson, 16; Malcolm John Dufibar, £3: Leonard Farr, £5: Michael 'failed tranar v:«lor. nd« «>: •Harte* Hwrr TtlrtOT’iirW Hunt. MiJehn-Jeckeoa, M; Josephßugone Benjtb mm Lift'; *ldevre, Ronald Samuel' r-nder Graham Macrwriane, Manson?

Manson, £5 (no safety helmet, £3), ordered to attend traffic lectures: Muriel Elsie McDougall, £5; Barry Thomas Mears. £lO, ordered to attend traffic lectures; Christopher Alan Mitchell, £8: Neville Charles Morrison, £5; Barry Cavil Nicolle, £5: Brian Richard O Donnell. £5; Edward Derek Paintin. £7: Robert Ivan Palmer, £6; David John Price, £5, ordered to attend traffic lectures: Ronald Percy Quartley, £6; John Taemi Rikihana, £6; Thomas Aquinas Rose, £4; Walter Brian Sandford, £7; Albert Heaton Savin, £8: Edwin John Shepherd, £6; Richard Ernest Smith. £5; Kenneth Ronald Spurway, £5; Peter Othello Sterling, £6: James Hayes Mowate Sutherland, £5; Lawrence Richard Tregurtha, £6; Michael Phillip Tritt, £5: Edward Arthur Hurman Wright, £6: Richard John Wright, £4, ordered to attend traffic lectures: George Wingham, £5; Ivan Peter John Thompson, £5; Terence Russell Bryant, £8 (failed to stop for traffic officer, £5; disqualified for three months): Peter David Crampton, £7; Keith William Lester Crosswell, £5 (no driver’s licence, £5); Ariaan Ochtman, £6: Major Wayne Richardson, £5: Colin Te Whata, £5: James Yeoman, £6. Overloaded rear axle: John Brightling, Ltd. £10; W. W. Keighley and Company, Ltd., £8 (exceeded heavy traffic licence, £8). Failed to comply with traffic lights: Dennis Colin Britt, £6; disqualified for two months; Wayne Frederick Hurrell, £6, disqualified for three months; Joseph Erwin Moosman, £7, disqualified for three months. Parking offences: Patrick Robert Brosnahan, £3; Lawrence James Russell Ferris, £2; David Alexander McPhail. £3; John Charles Partleton (two charges), £5: Michael Shoham, £2: Ronald Stewart, £2: Raymond Alfred Wright. £2; Marsha Ursula Annis, £2: Charles Hikana, £3; Anthony Robert Pearson, £3.

Failed to display L plate: Clinton Wayne Cattermole. £5. No driver’s licence: Michael Close, £5, disqualified from driving for six months; Dorreen Florence Eddington, £5, disqualified for six months (failed to give way, £5). Insufficient lights: David Patrick Crowe, £B.

Failed to stop at stop sign: Margaret Elliott, £6; Donald Hendrickson, £6: Alan John Keith, £4, ordered to attend traffic lectures: Allen Clifford Prebble, £6; Nalda Mitchell, £4.

Failed to give way: June Fleur Ferguson, £6; Clifford Johnstone, £5; Donald Gray, £5. No safety chain: Keith Frost, £4.

No warrant of fitness: William Keith Hewinson, £6; Clement Joseph Kinnard, £5; Bruce Hilton Murdock, £3 (no safety chain, £3); James Little White. £3; Benedict Elias Bernstein, £3 (insufficient lights, £4).

No visual aids: Suzanne Marilyn Prosser, £5. Noisy vehicle: Kurt Crispin Ryman, £7 10s.

No hands on handle Rodney Peter Abbie, £3. Exceeded speed limit: Bruce Peter Anderson, £4.

Careless use: Barthelmeh, £4, disqualified for three months; John Alexander Shepherd, £6. Unable to stop in half clear distance: Deborah Camille Wylie, £4. No red rear light on goods service vehicle: Murray John Taylor, £5. (Before Mr E. A. Lee, S.M.) PHARMACIST FINED Kelvin Charles Young, aged 25, a pharmacist (Mr A. K. Archer), was fined £7 10s on a charge of destroying an entry in the Narcotics Register, £7 10s on a charge of failing to retain a prescription for three years after supplying a narcotic, and costs only on a charge of supplying narcotics to a person who presented a forged prescription. Sergeant J. D. Farrow said Young had supplied the narcotics to a youth who presented the forged prescription during a busy period when the shop was full of customers.

He had filed the prescription and noted the supply in the register. However, he had bleached out the entry in the register and destroyed the prescription after he found out that a youth had been obtaining narcotics by forging prescriptions. He told the police he destroyed the evidence because he feared prosecution for supplying narcotics. SHOPLIFTING Dianne Mary Anne Richards, aged 21, a shop assistant, pleaded guiity to two charges of theft and was convicted and remanded on bail to May 16 for a probation officer’s report and sentence.

Sergeant Farrow said Richards, her aimer, and a friend entered The Farmers’ shop on March 18 and while they shielded her, Richards took two gramaphone record* valued at Later on the same day she stole a bottle of perfume valued at 15* from Murray’s Chemists, Ltd.

Margaret Josephine Williams, aged 19, a laundry worker, pleaded guilty to a charge of theft of a brassiere valued at £1 5s from Millers, Ltd., on April 21. She was convicted and the case was adjourned to May 16 for a probation officer’s report and sentence. BURGLARY David John Green, aged 30, a cleaner, and Trevor Tan Clayton, aged 29, a labourer, pleaded guilty to a joint charge of burglary of McKenzies, Ltd., Sydenham, on May 8. They were convicted and remanded to May 16 for a probation officer’s report and sentence. Sergeant Farrow said the two men were seen walking down Colombo street soon after midnight with a suitcase. The suitcase was found to contain canned foods. The men admitted breaking into McKenzies, Ltd. Other goods to a value of about £5O were found in their flat and they admitted that these had also been taken from the store. TRAFFIC CASES Traffic offenders were fined as follows: Careless use: Dermot James Nottingham. £2O, disqualified from driving for six months; George Murray Waerea, £l5, disquailfied from driving for six motaths; William Daniel Urwin, £7. witness expense*. £2. Fatted to give way: Marjorie Spencer. £7. No driver’s licence: Glen Murray Herbert, £5. Exceeded 30 miles an hour: Kerry Michael HaroM Summerfield £6. (Before Mr E. S. J. Crutchley. S.M.) CARELESS DRIVING Brian Robert Cameron, aged 17. a storeman driver, was fined £4 on a charge of careless driving on March 8. He pleaded guilty and wae represented .by. Mr M. F. Hobbs. Traffic Sergeant H. J. McMorran Cameron was reversing a van from a parking space in front of the Post Office when he struck another vehicle which hair re- ( versed from a parking space. xSlrJlobbß submitted that the ether driver had contributed to orxty. on a-truck. u lor failini to carry a heary traffic licence and st far taiiiM-rfn display a certMeate at Mntae- — Mr C. B. Atkinson, who ap. peardd for the defendant com-

pany, entered pleas of guilty to all charges. He said that all fees and licences had been paid by the company but the documents were not in the trucks. CIVIL CASES JUDGMENT SUMMONSES The following orders were made on judgment summonses: M. J. McAlister, Nursery road, to pay T. Armstrong and Company, Ltd., £64 Is 2d, in default 68 days’ imprisonment warrant suspended while £1 a week is paid; Flora Mokomoko, married woman, St. Asaph street, to pay Lynton Garth Borland £24 5s (27 days or £1 a week); T. G. Washbourne, workman, Perth street, to pay M. E. Anstiss £l2 Us 5d (15 days or £1 a week).

G. K. Ayres, workman. Lake Coleridge, to pay Coalgate Motors, Ltd., £32 4s 6d (35 days or £1 a week); R. M. Duncan, plasterer, Simeon street, to pay M. W. McKenzie £ll (13 days or £1 a week); Hugh C. Galbraith steward, Linwood avenue, to pay Ballins Industries, Ltd. £2 8s (three days).

J. Kelly, workman. Walkers road, Lyttelton, to pay Port Supermarket, Ltd. £4O 15s 8d (44 days or £1 a week); N. O’Shea, workman, Jacksons road, Lyttelton, to pay Port Supermarket, Ltd. £5 14s 2d (seven days or £1 a week); L. Barkle, labourer Wellington street, to pay Bunt’s Florists £3 13s (five days). W. E. Hooke, trading as Beachcomber, South Pacific Mall, milk bar proprietor, Union street, to pav G. G. Don, Ltd. £lOO Ils 5d (90 days or £5 a week); G. F. B. Smith, builder. North road. Kaiapoi, to pay Packet 1 and Jones, Ltd. £6 Us lid (eight days or £1 a week): L. F. Coles, workman Santa Rosa avenue, to pay Consolidated Concrete, Ltd. £59 8s 2d (63 days or £1 a week).

J. M. Little, manager, trading as Home Improvement Services, Barters road, Templeton, to pay B. W. Arthur £l7 19s 8d (20 days); A. Burke, worker, Glenfield crescent, to pay V. M. Schaare £2B 15* (32 days or £1 a week); Stewart Dawson McMurdo, metal polisher, Heather place, to pay the Post Office £9 14s Id (11 days or £1 a week).

C. J. Brown, labourer, Oram avenue, to pay Frank Quinlivan Motors, Ltd., £8 7s 9d (seven days or £1 a week); G. Hood, labourer. Cuthberts road, to pay John Burns and Company, Ltd., £lO 7s 6d (13 days or £1 a week); W. E. Hooke, trading as Beachcomber, New Brighton, to pay Ballins Industries, Ltd., £156 19s 5d (90 days or £1 a week).

R. G. Mcllwrick, contract chaff cutter, Neill street, Hornby, to pay Smiths Garage, £36 13s 5d (40 days or £1 a week); Wallace Langatule, workman, Lambeth crescent, to pay Calder Mackay Company, Ltd., £35 2s 5d (38 days or £1 a week); Stewart Dawson McMurdo, labourer, Heather place, to pay Leslie William Clark £5O 17s (55 days or £1 a week).

R. Trembath, pensioner, Auburn avenue, to pay Ashby Bergh and Company, Ltd., £9 5s (10 days or £1 a week); C. A. Smith, workman, Corson avenue, to pay Wild and Robertson, Ltd., £l6 3s (18 days or £1 a week); D. Hose, workman, Brougham street, to pay Butterfields, Ltd., £29 13s 4d (33 days or £1 a week).

B. G. Hos-toins, Montreal street, to pay Lyttelton Borough Council £36 19s 9d (40 days or £1 a week); p. J. Shaw, labourer, Hastings street, to pay Clifford C. Minty £3 10s (five days); Powhiri Love, shearing contractor, Glenfield crescent, to pay Commissioner of Inland Revenue £265 5s (90 days or £3 a weke). T. R. O'Conor, Godley avenue, to pay J. Lamb and Son, Ltd., £3 10s lOd (five days); W. Davies, worker, Chester street, to pay Lionel Hunter, Ltd., £l9 12s 5d (22 days or £2 a week); J. Coniin, workman, Keys road, to p.ay Horton Bidwell and Company, Ltd., £7 8s 7d (eight days or £1 a week).

M. Erceg. spinster, Stonehurst Hotel, to pay Beath and Company, Ltd., £lO Is 2d (12 days or 10s a week); W. J. Bannon driver, Winsor crescent, to pay Blue Star Garage, Ltd., £36 Is 9d (39 days or £1 a week); J. M. Walker, widow, Bamford street, to pay T. Armstrong and Company, Ltd., £34 8s 6d (37 days or 10s a week).

B. C. Harris, insurance agent, Braemar place, to pay Five Ways Garage, Ltd., £39 10s lOd (43 days or 10s a weke); M. Clarke, workman, Tonga street, to pay T. Armstrong and Company, Ltd., £4l 3s lOd (44 days or £1 a week); John Watson, labourer, Tonks street, to pay Butler Timber Company, Ltd., £4 15s (five days). R. Mcllwrick, labourer, Neill street, to pay Charles Begg and Company, Ltd., £5 17s 3d (seven days or £1 a week); R. M. Duncan, plasterer, Simeon street, to pay Reese Bros., Ltd., £3Ol 19s 6d (90 days or £5 a week).

POSSESSION ORDER Gertrude Ena Moir, married woman, was ordered to give up possession of & tenement at 3 Riselaw street to the State Advances Corporation of New Zealand and to pay arrears of rent and costs amounting to £B9 ss.