MAGISTRATE’S COURT Fined £5 For Assault

Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31384, 1 June 1967, Page 9

MAGISTRATE’S COURT Fined £5 For Assault

Charged with assault, David Eader, aged 21, a shop assist* ant, was convicted and fined £5 in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday by Mr H. J. Evans, S.M.

On another assault charge and on a charge of wilful damage he was convicted and ordered to pay costs. Eader pleaded not guilty. He was charged with assaulting R. J. Harris and F. G. Johnson, and with wilfully damaging a shirt belonging to Harris. *

Evidence was given for the prosecution that the accused assaulted Harris and Johnson after they and three friends had had a meal in the Railway Cafe, where the accused had also had a meal, about 7.30 a.m. on April 23. Mr M. J. Glue, who appeared for Eader, said that there was an element of provocation in offensive remarks made about Eader. Eader had never been in trouble before. The Magistrate said that there were two stories about the episode, but the prosecution witnesses would not have gone to the police if they had been baiting the accused.

TWO YEARS’ IMPRISONMENT •Tf it were not for willing gobetweens, there would not be the amount of crime going on that there is.’’ said the Magistrate in sentencing Norman William Bradley, aged 31. a factory hand, to a total of two years’ imprisonment. Bradley (Mr R. G. Blunt) was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment on each of four charges of receiving stolen goods to a total value of £551 Ils 6d. He was also sentenced to three months’ imprisonment, to be served concurrently, on a charge of burglary. The offences were committed between Aprii 1 and May 28. Detective Sergeant A. B. Dalzell said the goods received by Bradley ranged from a television set valued at £l5O to a crate of gin valued at £l9 12s 6d. Mr Blunt said that except for selling the gin. Bradley did not make very much profit on the goods when he sold them. PERIODIC DETENTION An 18-year-old unemployed butcher, Michael Patrick Howard (Mr G. T. Mahon), was placed on periodic detention for six months and probation for one year after that, when he appeared for sentence on five driving offences which were committed on May 14 and 17. They were: failing to stop for a constable and driving while disqualified on May 17, and driving while disqualified, supplying false Information, and exceeding 30 miles an hour on May 14. The Magistrate said that the periodic detention was subject to a medical examination of the defendant. Howard was also disqualified for two years and fined £lO on the exceeding 30 miles an hour charge. FINED £2O AND PROBATION A woman who appeared for sentence on three charges of theft was convicted and fined £7 on two of the chargee and £6 on the other. Her name was suppressed. She was placed on probation for 18 months. Mr D. H. Stringer, who appeared for the defendant, said that she was of good character, according to- the probation officer’s report, and that the offences were completely out of character. CREDIT BY FRAUD John Clare Mitchell, aged 48, unemployed, was convicted and remanded in custody until June 7 for a probation officer’s report and sentence when he pleaded guilty to obtaining credit by fraud between May 19 and 30. t „ Detective Sergeant Dalsell said that on May 19 the defendant had booked into the Croydon Hotel. He told the proprietor that he was from Dunedin and was waiting for his wife to come to Christchurch. When he was given an account by the management of the hotel he said he would pay later, but did not return to the hotel. STOLE FLOUR Leon Bernard Palmer, aged 25. a storeman, was convicted and remanded to June 7 for sentence, when he pleaded guilty to stealing flour from D. H. Brown and Son, on December 1 and May 30. The flour was valued at £l4. Detective Sergeant Dalzell said the police visited the defendant’s home on another matter. While there, they discovered the flour in a cupboard and also in a shed. BURGLARY James Murray Hohepa, aged 18, unemployed, was placed on probation for 18 months when he appeared for sentence on a charge of burglary at the £ remises of W. R. Cooper on ay 10. SUSPENDED SENTENCE Shirley Williams, aged 17, was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence within six months, if called on, when she appeared for sentence on a charge of escaping from custody of the Child Welfare Department on April 28. She was not represented. TRAFFIC OFFENDERS Traffic offenders were convict-

[ ed and penalised as follows, with court costs of 30s: — Failing to give way: Robert I Henry Davis, £l5; lan Stanley t Butterworth, £8 10s and disqualified from driving for three » months. Careless use: June Constance > Luke. £7. [ (Before Mr E. S. J. Crutchley, S.M.) ‘■SERIOUS CASE" “Thia is a serious case of its kind. It places a great strain . on other road users/’ the Magistrate told Brian William Evans, aged 26, a carpenter, who pleaded guilty to driving in a dan- ! gerous manner on the Main South road and failing to keep left on Barters road on Janu- : ary 2. Evidence was given that Evans had weaved along the road several times and on one occasion ; went on the wrong side of the road. He had cut the corner at Barters road and had driven on the incorrect side. Evans (Mr W. S. Smith) was fined a total of £25 and disqualified for one year and a half. DISQUALIFIED Robert William Ditford, aged 20, a joiner, was fined £2O and disqualified for two years on a charge of driving at a speed which might have been dangerous on Blenheim road. Evidence was given that Ditford was checked at 70 m.p.h. on February 19, and in doing so passed about 20 cars and went across eight intersections. DEPORTATION ORDER Raymond Roberts, aged 17, who claimed he was a New Zealander, was ordered to return to Fiji when it was found he was in New Zealand without a permit. He was also fined £25, ordered to pay solicitor's fees of £5 ss, and ordered to be detained in custody pending deportation. Roberts was represented by Mr R. L. Kerr, and Mr N. W. Williamson appeared for the Immigration Department. “A MENACE" “To stop somebody else from passing this sort of driving is a menace on the road," Diane Kathleen Roulton, aged 16, unemployed, was told by the Magistrate when she pleaded guilty to a charge of driving in a dangerous manner on the Lower Styx road on January In fining Roulton £5 and disqualifying her from driving for one year and a half, the Magistrate said he was taking into account her financial position. CHARGE DISMISSED A charge of assault against a man whose name was suppressed was dismissed. Evidence by the prosecution alleged that the defendant had struck a female friend of long acquaintance, after she had asked him to leave her place. The woman’s name was also suppressed. Mr P. D, A. Hinchliff appeared for the defendant. TRAFFIC PROSECUTIONS Prosecutions brought by the Transport Department with convictions entered (court costs £1 108 on each charge) were:— Careless use: Stephen James Mitchell, £5; Brian Leslie Wendt, £6 and disqualified for three months (failed to produce driver’s licence, £5). Exceeded 30 m.p.h.: Alistair David McCrostie, £4 (exceeded 30 m.p.h. with no safety helmet. £2): Karen Marie Framohs, £7; John Furjan, £6; Robert Harris, £4; Donald Alexander Boyd. £4; Michael Barry Crawshaw, £4; Jean Cummings, £4; Nell Lindsay Doyle, £8; Dennis James Holmes, £6; Roger Arthur Lyford, £8; John Edmunds McEvoy, £4; Lawrence Robert Moir, £4; Raymond Dunlop Misson, £5; Lynd say Neil Hocking, £5; Helen Jane Richards, £10; Miriam June van Ham, £4; Graeme Alexander Adams, £8; Kenneth Noel Kitchen, £10; Raymond William Johns, £4; Philippa Constance Wylde, £4. Exceeded 30 m.p.h. with no safety helmet: Donald Kenneth Douglas, £2; Robert John Davidson, £2; John Baldock, £4; Leslie Thomas Goom, £8; Maureen Ann Hart, £4; John Smith, £2. Exceeded 55 m.p.h.*. Colin David Chambers, £7 (exceeded 30 m.p.h., £5); Gordon Fraser Mitchell. <7, and disqualified for two,

Failed to stop at stop sign: David Campbell Mac Lean, £3; Beatrice Jean Wilkinson, £2; Brian John Ward, £3: Elizabeth May Ashworth, £3; Brian John Chapman, £5; Dennis Winston Churchill, £3 (wrong class of driver’s licence, £2, no warrant of fitness, £2); Russell William Guy, £3; Fay Martin, £3: William Penman, £3 (no driver’s licence, £5).

Proceeded from stop sign when way was not clean Mary Brook, £5, disqualified for one month; Mary Garrett, £5. Failed to comply with traffic lights: Cecily Preston, £5: John David Knight. £7 and disquali-

Insufficient lights: Joseph Allan Davies, £2: Ashley Collett, £5: David Fletcher, £5; John William Trim, £3. No rear red light: Peter Roel Oosterherd, £2.

Failed to dip lights: Harry Lienburg, £3. Failed to produce driver’s licence: Dean Where, £5 (supplied false name and address. £5); David Salisbury Ray, £5 (exceeded 30 m.p.h., £4); James Francis Guden, £5; William Frank Huddy, £5 (no wartant of fitness, £3); Gavin John Vercoe, £5 (no warrant of fitness .on truck, £5).

No driver’s licence: Tim Bernard Lilley, £2; Paul Milton Rossiter, £2 (unlicenced motor vehicle, £2).

Permitted use of unlicensed motor-vehicle: Thomas Alex-

ander Bennett, £2. Failed to keep left: Benfield John Callavin. £3: Edward Colbert Cook, £7, disqualified for three months (no warrant of fitness, £3). Passed in area with longitudinal centre line: Allan James Wadsworth, £lO, disqualified for three months. Rode motor-cycle on footpath: Richard lan Warren. £2 10s. Failed to notify change of ownership: Neil Alexander Thompson, £3. No warrant of fitness: Adam Frekatovich, £1; Anthony John King, £1 (mechanically defective motor-vehicle, £5): R. G. Mauger, Ltd., £2 (defective parking brake, £4); Allan David Shelley, £2. Noisy vehicle: John Kururangi, £5 (no warrant of fitness, £1; failed to produce driver’s licence, £5). No rear brake of cycle: David Jo Postlethwaite, £1 (no light, £2: no tail light, 10s). Insecure trailer: Douglas Burie Cromb. £5 (no warrant of fitness on trailer, £1 10s; permitted use of unlicensed trailer, £2). No rear red light on trailer: John Winston Rivers, £1 (insecure trailer. £5). Heavy traffic licence not carried: Hugh Fitzsimmons, £2; O. M. Williamson and Sons, Ltd., £5; J. V. O’Connor and Albert Paviell, trading as O’Connell and Paviell, £3 (no certificate of fitness for heavy motor vehicle, £5). Vehicle insecurely loaded: Robert Elliot Tindle, £lO. No certificate of fitness: Vibrapac Blocks, Ltd., £2 (exceeded axle weight, £5). (Before Messrs J. T. Bisman and J. R. Smith, Justices of the Peace). COMMITTED FOR TRIAL “This is a case of using a sledge hammer to kill a fly and it is a pity that the time of the Supreme Court has to be taken up with such a trivial matter,” said Mr G. T. Mahon. Mr Mahon appeared for Bruce Ronald Collins, aged 20, a van driver, and Edward John Strachan, aged 21, a shoemaker, who were committed to the Supreme Court for trial on a joint charge of conspiring to defeat the course of justice by agreeing to say that Collins and not Strachan was the driver of a car involved in an accident on Pages road on March 19. They pleaded not guilty. Sergeant A. D. Stevenson prosecuted The accused were granted bail. Evidence was given that Strachan, who did not hold a driver’s licence, was the driver of a car which hit a pole in Pages road and the accused agreed that they would tell the police that Collins was driving.