MAGISTRATE’S COURT Youth Admits Stealing Three Surf-boards

Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31540, 30 November 1967, Page 9

MAGISTRATE’S COURT Youth Admits Stealing Three Surf-boards

A youth who admitted stealing three surf-boards of a total value of 5226 was remanded on bail to December 7 for sentence when he appeared before Mr H. J. Evans, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday. He is Dennis Francis Willis, aged 17, a shop fitter, who was represented by Mr G. T. Mahon. Willis pleaded guilty to charges of stealing two surfboards of a total value of 5126. the property of Dennis Stephen Quane on November 26 and stealing a surf-board valued at SlOO, the property of William George Holstein.

Detective Sergeant T. J. C. Joy said Mr Holstein’s surfboard was stolen from an address in Barbour street. On Saturday Mr Holstein was in Cathedral Square at 10.30 p.m. when he saw the surfboard on the roof rack of an old model car. He took the number of the car and followed it until it stopped outside the Public Library in Cambridge Terrace. Mr Holstein spoke to Willis. who said that the board belonged to his brother and he knew nothing about it being stolen. Mr Holstein asked Willis to go with him to the police station so that the matter could be sorted out. Willis drove off with Mr Holstein following. After Willie had dropped off his girl friend Mr Holstein lost him while driving through Cathedral Square. Traffic was heavy at the time. When seen by the police on Tuesday Willis said that as soon as he knew the complainant was not behind him he drove to the South Brighton Surf Club where he left the surf-board as he intended to deny all knowledge of it.

Willis said he then went home and changed his clothes, Detective Sergeant Joy said. He drove to Taylor's Mistake, and on the way baek to the city stopped at Redcliffs. He climbed over the fence into the yard of Quane Surf Boards, Ltd, where he selected two surfboards from a rack of about 12 boards. He took the boards to his home and used them on Sunday. He put them around the side of his parents’ house so that his father would not find them. The three surf-boards had been recovered, said Detective Sergeant Joy. SEAMAN FINED

A seaman, who thought his ship was leaving later in the week but on arrival back at Lyttelton, found it had sailed, was fined S2O for being absent without leave. The seaman, Michael Francis Sawiak, aged 21, an Englishman, pleaded guilty to being away from the Persic on November 24, without leave.

Mr M. J. Cashmere appeared for Shaw, Savill and Albion Company, Ltd.

Sawiak said he had been told by members of the crew that his ship was to sail later in the week; when he found the ship bad sailed, he telephoned the police. The Magistrate ordered Sawiak to be subject to the Shipping and Seamen Act, but granted him bail until he could be deported.

traffic charges On traffic charges bought by the Transport Department fines were imposed as follows, with costs of S 3 on each charge: Exceeded 30 miles an hourFrank Patrick Higgins, $5: Don-

raid Angus Jury, 116; Felix Josef Caret Knoef, $l4 (failed to stop at stop sign, $14); Thomas Bruce Patterson, 116; Beach Freeman Rogers, $6. No safety chain on trailer: Johannes Cornelius Benshop, $10; James Henry McGavock, $lO. Failed to stop at stop sign: lan McDonald Cochrane, $l2; Irene Mary Alice Eade, $10; Keren Ann Pickering, $lO. Failed to produce driver’s licence: James William Donaldson. $7 (insufficient lights, $11): Anthony McDonald, $5 (no warrant of fitness, $3). Exceeded heavy traffic licence: Hanmer Lodge, Ltd, $9. Failed to display L plate: Patrick Desmond Kennedy, $5, No warrant of fitness; Lester Raymond Swan, $lO. Unlicensed motor vehicle: Logan Miller Tait, $2. No driver's licence: Monica Caroline Morris, $l. POLICE TRAFFIC CHARGES Failing to stop at sign: Terrance Andrew Kinniard, $2O, and disqualified from driving for three months. Careless use: Robert Noel Valentine. $l5, and disqualified from driving for two months: William James Taylor, $l5 and disqualified for three months. No driving licence: Wayne Albert Tapper, costs only (no tail light, $2). No warrant of fitness: Samuel Tairaki, $l. (Before Mr E. A. Lee, S.M. ret.) OTHER TRAFFIC CASES Transport Department prosecutions with conviction entered 'court costs $3 on each charge) were:—

Careless Use: Enid McCrary, $10: Neil Arthur Timms, $lO.

Exceeded 30 m.p.h.: Christopher Vesty, $6; Edgar Vallance Wardrop, $8; Edward Percy Barker. $10: Paid Ross Hussey. 88; Christine Mary Cunningham. $8; Jane Helen Sullivan, $8; Benjamin Stanley Taylor. $8; Richard Charles Woolions. $10: Raoul Amyas George Gerard. $3O. disqualified for 14 days and ordered to attend traffic lectures: Michael Lyndsay Buckland. 88: Ashley McClure. $8: David Cadman, 98: Joel Robert Moore, $10; Peter Des mond O’Brien, $6; Rex Gilbert Tavendale, $8; Gordon Campbell Tomlin, $8; Duncan Andrew Doig, $8; Lindsay Jon Innes. $l2; Valerie Phyllis Johnson $8; Terence Leonard Jennings, $6; Robert James Jones, $6; Anthony Edward Lawrence, Hl; Michael Strode Radford, $l2: Norman Murphy, $8; Alma Joan Newfield, $10; Edward Thomas Smith, $B. Failed to stop atstoj) sign: Alistair Allan Muir, $lO (exceeded 40 m.p.h. with trailer. $10); Margaret Jean Philpott, $10: Vivien Hope Dodd, $10: Ethel Maud Mahar. $8: Robert Duncan Lee, $10: Brenda Ruth Barton. $10: Peter Albert Thompson. $8; Alice Close. $8: John Findlay, $10; Janet Marie Lewis. $lO. No warrant of fitness: Kevin Frederick Bell, $2; Gerald Stuart Halliday. $4: Robert John Hayward. $4 (failed to produce driver’s licence, $2); Anthony Henry Turner, $2: Kevin James Henderson. $2; Alan Bishop. $2 (no driver s licence. $10): Joyce Louisa Denton. $8: Peter James Kirner. $4: lan Price Carter. $6; Colin Tiplady. $lO (worn tyres, $6); Howard Henry Carrington, $2 (unlicensed motor vehicle, M: insecurely attached trailer, $10). No driver’s licence: Murray Robert Presland, $2. Norman James Olive, $lO (unable to stop vehicle in clear roadway, 110); Alan William Bishop, 110 (no warrant of fitness. $2); Roderick John Green. $10: Richard James Burgess, $2: Ellen Barker, $2: Eleanor Mary Forne, $2; Robert Charles Plimmer, $4. Failed to produce driver’s licence: Liam James Walsh. $B. Permitted use of unlicensed motor vehicle: Ronald Stanley Fridd, $B. Insufficient lights: Thomas Manuel, $8; David Graeme Martin, $B. Exceeded axle weight: W. A. Habgood*, Ltd, $B. Unlicensed motor vehicle: Maurice Munnerley, $6: Christopher Edmund Pallett, $6. No red rear light on goods service vehicle: Charles Maxwell Mcßeth, $2O. Rode dangerously on vehicle: Andrew Noel Nesbitt, $lO (failed to produce driver’s licence. $2) Passing on no'passing lines: Barry Gibson, $2O, and disqualified for three months. Failed to give way; James Douglas Corbett, $6. Carried pillion passenger on

provisional licence: Richard Owen Michael, $6. Failed to display licence sticker: Maurice Robert Hanning, $6.

Trailer not safely secured: Teddy Ransfield Davis, $10: Vernon Patrick Gerraghty, $lO (no warrant of fitness, $4). Wrong class of driver’s licence: Alister Peter Taylor, ordered to pay costs only: Geoffrey Twiss, $6. Exceeded 30 miles an hour with no safety helmet: Lindsay lan Innes, $6 Exceeded 40 miles an hour in heavy motor vehicle: Richard de Joux, $lO (no driver’s licence, $2). Exceeded 55 miles an hour: Ellwyn James David Mackie, $10; James Brendan Horan, $B. Exceeded heavy traffic licence: Ellesmere Transport, Ltd, $7; Transport North Canterbury, Ltd, $6; Thomas lan Perry, $lO. Failed to wear vision aids; Sally Jones, $6. Failed to display L sign. Jenifer Anne Knight, $10: Raymond Louie Houghton, $lO.