MAGISTRATE'S COURT Driver imprisoned for six weeks

Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33779, 27 February 1975, Page 11

MAGISTRATE'S COURT Driver imprisoned for six weeks

“This is your fourth offence involving drinking and driving and I would be failing in my duty if I did not impose a sentence of imprisonment.” said Mr F. G. Paterson, S.M. in the Magistrate's Court yesterday.

He was sentencing Lewis B Meads, aged 52, a baker’s assistant, to six weeks imprisonment on charges of! driving while disqualified and driving with an ex-, cessive blood-alcohol level* *(185 mg). His licence was cancelled* until April. 1977. Meads was convicted and ’discharged on a charge ofi ! careless use which occurred i when he ran into the back! I of a Transport Department* * patrol car. 21 DAYS GAOL Lindsay Wardlow Milne.' aged 32, a driver, was sentenced to 21 days imprisonIment on a charge of driving with an excess blood-alcohol * level (284 mg His licence was cancelled for two years. The Magistrate said that i this was Milne’s third * offence involving drinking * and driving. He already had [been sent to the work centre on a similar charge. HIGH-SPEED CHASE , “My patrol car was going as| ' fast as it couid,” said Traffic ’Officer Pester when he told the I Court how he chased a motorl cyclist at speeds up to 100 miles lan hour on State Highway 73, ion December 28. ' Michael Quick, aged 18, was fined $lOO and disqualified for 'one year when he pleaded guilty to a charge of reckless driving. Traffic Officer Pester said he had chased the defendant on State Highway 1 near Templeton, then down Kirk Road and on to State Highway 73. The defendant had then sped through West Melton at 100 miles an hour but later he slowed down and was apprehended. PERIODIC DETENTION i I Barlow Terrence Mahara, a social security beneficiary <Mr I P. J Rutledge), was sentenced to I six months periodic detention, | on six charges of theft one of I burglary and one of unlawfully ‘taking a car, when he appeared for sentence. He was put on probation for 18 months. Mahara had previously pleaded guilty to all the charges. FINED $350 Robert Henry Rogers, unemployed, was fined $350 and his licence was cancelled for two years on a charge of driving with an excessive blood-alcohol level (405 mg He was also put on probation for a year and ordered to take medical treatment as directed by the probation officer. EXCESSIVE ALCOHOL In Ministry of Transport prosecutions for driving with an excessive blood-alcohol concentration. convictions were, entered and penalties imposed as follows:— Robert Trevor Capon <2somg). j fined $225. disqualified for 181 months; Michael John Flood (179 mg $175. 12 months; Stenhen I Douglas Harry <l46mg) $125. 6 months; Michael Thomas Hart j (I9omg). remanded to March 5. for sentence; Charles Kerens I (18lmgi. $175, 12 months; John Errol McGill (142 mg $125. 6 months: Simon Gregory Pentecost (118mg>, $75 6 months; Hazel Scott (334 mg $5O, 2 years, put on probation for 18 months; Colin Campbell. Smith ilsBmg), $125 9 months; Michael Stepanov (145 mg $125, 6 months: Eric Thorburn (t66mg>, $l5O, 9 months; John Wayne Baxter <22Bmg’. $l5O, 18 months, put on Probation for one year: Allan Benjamin Richards (204tng), remanded for sentence to March 5; Duncan Cook SMeffelbein (276 mg $250, 18 months. (Before Mr F. G. Paterson S.M.) RAPE CHARGE I i Phillip Reid Hapi, aged 20, and I James Rewi Williams, also (known as Jack Rata, aged 37, 'were remanded in custody to I March 6 when they appeared on

i charge of raping a woman on February 15. Na plea was; entered. Depositions will be taken on April 2. BURGLARIES “If you let the side down after ■this you can’t expect any more! leniency,” said the Magistrate when sentencing a man to nine months periodic detention on' three charges of burglary-. The man. Robert Joseph Lee. Puhirere, aged 23 <Mr A. C.; Hughes-Johnson) had earlier been ; convicted on his plea of guilty ‘ I of burgling the premises of the I (N.Z.8.C., Manchester Street, T. |E. Marriott, Ltd, Madras Street, and Painton and Nottingham, Ltd. He was also put on probation i for 18 months with . the condi-1 I tions he live and work where directed, not associate with persons disapproved of by the probation officer, abstain from alcohol take out a prohibition order, and attend the Alcohol and Drug Dependency Centre. Counsel submitted that the. defendant realised he must! abstain from alcohol if there was I to be any hope for him. COMMUNITY WORK | David William Beaven. aged 19, a gardener (Mr R. J. Murfitt), was put on probation for 18 months and ordered to do 200 hours of community work when he appeared for sentence on two charges of burglary, two of false pretence, and two of forging cheques. He had previously pleaded guilty. The Magistrate also ordered Beaven to place his finances under the control of the probation officer and pay $207 compensation. Part of that amount would be reduced if any of the property was recovered from the burglaries. Mr Murfitt said that the only thing he had to add to the probation officer's report was that' at the time of the offences Bea-1 ven was “dabbling in hard l drugs.” The Magistrate said that the defendant might have been sent, back to Borstal. However, the* offences seemed to be “rather: a laose than a return to offending.” He also took into account the good report on the defendant when he left Borstal, said the Magistrate. DANGEROUS SPEED A driver, who passed a line of vehicles at 80 miles an hour in a 30 miles an hour zone and then crashed into a pole, writing off his car, was fined $lOO and his driver’s licence was cancelled for six months on a charge of driving at a speed which might have been dangerous. He is David John Harvey, aged 24. a mechanic, who pleaded guilty. Sergeant Prouting said that about 8.20 p.m. on November 30 Harvey was driving on the Main South Road from Sockburn

towards Church Corner when he overtook a line of vehicles at 80 miles an hour. A car travelling in the opposite direction was forced off the road. On the bend by Curletts Road, Harvey’s vehicle got out of control,’ istruck a pole and was wrecked.! EIGHT CHARGES Brian Desmond Marsh. aged 21 (Mr K. J. Osborn), was remanded on bail to March 5 for sentence on three charges of ; burglary and five of presenting a cheque with intent to defraud He pleaded guilty Sergeant R. H. Prouting said that on January 31 Marsh burgled a house in Queen Street. Rangiora. and took a wallet, some Fijian money and a cheque book, all valued at $l5. That, afternoon he cashed one of the cheques for $5.79 to-buy petrol. He then travelled to Pieton and cashed another cheque for $7.75 at a hotel. On the return journey a cheque was used to buy trousers from a Blenheim store. On February 7 Marsh kicked |in the rear door of a house at I Fernside. He was looking for leash hot did not take anything i from the house. i The third burglary was done at Wardrops Fibrous Plasters. 32 Moorhouse Avenue on February 11. He stole four cheoues after climbing through a window and kicking down an inside door. Two of the cheques were cashed at Rangiora th<> following day for $7.83 and $23.42. ROBBERY CHARGE Mark Junior Hiroki, aged 19. and Manga Joseph Hohepa, aged 2ft were remanded in custody to March 6 on a charge of robbing a taxi-driver in Rfcearton on February 18. No plea was entered. The date for the taking of depositions on the charge Isj April 16. RECEIVING Alan Roy Earle was convicted; on his plea of guilty on a charge* of receiving a radio cassette worth $lOO. and was remanded' on bail to March 5 for sentence. Sergeant D. B. Kerr said that the cassette was taken in a burglary of a house in Brittan Street. Earle was given it and la+er sold it to a dealer for $5O He kept Half the money and gave the other half to the no-son who gave him the eas- ' DRIVING OFFENCES Michael Charles Graham was sentenced to six months periodic detention and put on probation for 18 months on charges of driving while disqualified and unlawfullv taking a truck on January 21. Graham, aged 26 (Mr R. G. Mills), had previously pleaded guilty. The Court had been told that Graham drove a truck from the Caledonian Hotel car park and was caught bv the tnmk's driver at Bealey Avenue. The driver had been in the hotel bar when he saw his truck go past.

WILFUL DAMAGE “You should not have been* drinking hard spirits at your age,” the Magistrate said when he put Paul Gerard Morgan, aged 18, an apprentice carpeniter, on probation for a year, ‘ordered him to do 24 hours of community work and io make : compensation of $3O on a charge of wilful damage. Morgan pleaded guilty to a * charge of wilfully damaging a ■ear to the value of $3O, the propertv of Blackwell Motors, Ltd. Sergeant Prouting said that on :the evening of October 12 Mor i gan was at a party at a flat in * Manchester Street. He went outI side, picked up a stone and I threw it through the rear winI dow of a car. Morgan told the (police that he Was pretty drunk I at the time as he had been (drinking whisky. THEFTS AT BEACH ‘ A man who stole S 3 from a I wallet and a shoulder bag and i contents valued at $3O, at New Brighton, was put on probation for 12 months and ordered to do 50 hours of community work He is Peter James Herbert Shamy. aged 19. a salesman (Mr G. P F. Thompson), who pleaded not guilty to one charge of theft * and guilty to another. The Magistrate refused an application for the suppression of the defendant’s name. Sergeant A. H. Huckstep said that on November 6 the defendant took the shoulder bag from inside the door of a mobile caravan parked near the beach. Evidence was given that on November 13 the defendant also took $3 from a wallet while its owner was swimming. The Magistrate said that they were two particularly mean types of theft, “People should be able to go to the beach without having to worry about their property being tampered with.” he said. WHIP USED Colin James O’Leary, aged 17, a council worker, was put on probation- for 12 months with the ' condition that he do 24 hours of community work, on a charge of disorderly behaviour. Sergeant Prouting said that on November 11 the defendant was with a groitn of youths who were nlaytag with a stock whip in Cathedral Square. When questioned by the police he said that he had aimed the whip at the wall of the post office and at paper cups. BURGLED GOLF CLUB On a charge of burgling the Mangakino Golf Club, .Gavin John Tuira, aged 21. was convicted and remanded on bail to March 5 for sentence. He pleaded guilty. Sergeant Prouting said that on the night of September 17 the club house was broken into and liquor, cash and cigarettes worth $lBB taken. On January 29 the defendant admitted the offence when Questioned by the police. He said he helped two associates up on to the halcnnv and they had:

I smashed a glass pane! to gain I entry. He acted as a look-out. EXCESSIVE ALCOHOL Roderick David McKay, aged 21. a workman .Mr I M. Abbu'.t * was put on probation tor a year. : ordered to do 32 hours commun- ■ ity work and his driver’s licence I was cancelled tor six months on ia charge of driving with an ex cessive blood-alcohol level (149 mg) on Linwood Avenue on De* I cember 24. John Filians Gilmour, aged 2ft a draughtsman Mr P. F White •side), was fined $lOO and his .drivers licence was cancelled for; | six months on a charge of driv ;mg with an excess blood-alcohol i level (130 mg on State Highway * 1.3 on December 20. ; Edward Stuart Stephens, aged! 22, an electrician, was fined slso| (and his licence was cancelled (for nine months on a charge of I .'driving on Greers Road with an* (excess blood-alcohol level (168' mg) on December 7. He pleaded I guilty, ■Before Messrs J. D. Diggs and* i W. 11. Small. Justices of the | Peace.) i COMMITTED FOR TRIAL ( Kieron Michael Arlow was com i mitted to the Supreme Court for ' i trial after the taking of deposi Itions on charges of burgling al (house in Ward Street, on De i cember 20.