MAGISTRATE’S COURT Fined £15 For Careless Driving Of Midget Racing Car

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30469, 17 June 1964, Page 8

MAGISTRATE’S COURT Fined £15 For Careless Driving Of Midget Racing Car

“You have a very bad record of traffic convictions. Your licence has been cancelled once and endorsed twice, hut because you have been making some attempt at responsibility it will not be cancelled on this occasion,” said Mr E. A. Lee, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday when fining Raymond Robert Clarke, a manager, £l5 on a charge of careless driving; Clarke was ordered to pay witnesses’ expenses of £4, and his licence was endorsed for three years. Clarke was originally charged with driving a. midget racing car in Milton street on April 18 in a manner which might have been dangerous. He pleaded not guilty to this charge, and was represented by Mr P. G. S. Penlington. The Magistrate reduced the charge to one of careless driving after the evidence had been heard, and Clarke then pleaded guilty.

Traffic Sergeant J. Laing prosecuted. In a statement by Clarke which was read to the Court, he said that after trying unsuccessfully to load the midget racing car on to a trailer, and then a van, he had the car pushed by a van to start it. As he came to a corner in Milton street the engine fired on two cylinders and he travelled round the corner at a maximum of 20 miles an hour.

After a plea of guilty had been entered to the charge of careless, driving, Mr Penlington said that Clarke had not offended for sonle time. If he lost his licence he would be in difficulty over his job and sport. There was no intentional breach of the law, and the degree • of carelessness was not great. The Magistrate said he was impressed by the evidence given by the two witnesses for the prosecution. Clarke took the corner too fast for the vehicle and crossed the middle line because he could not control the car properly. The size of the car and the noise it made could have given a false impression of speed, but he was. travelling too fast.

The Magistrate warned Clarke that if he committed another traffic offence in the foreseeable future, his licence was almost certain to be cancelled.

Christchurch Car Sales, Ltd., the owner of the car, was fined £5 for permitting the use of an unregistered vehicle. The Magistrate said this was always regarded seriously because of the lack of insurance. COSTS

Charged with failing to stop at the Bealey avenuePapanui road lights when they were against him, Desmond Ronald Cooke, aged 18, an apprentice shoemaker, pleaded not guilty. He was convicted and ordered to pay costs. .PARKING OFFENCE James Armitage Stanley was fined £5 for parking in a no-parking area in Hereford place on April 17. SPEEDING Neville Alan Oakley was fined £5 for exceeding 30 miles an hour in Wainoni road.• ‘ (Before Mr K. H. J. Headifen, S.M.) BURGLARY Charged with burglary at Burnham military camp on May 21, Peter Christopher Ward, aged 21, a soldier, pleaded guilty. He was convicted- and remanded until June 19. He was released* on bail into Army custody. ' Senior-Sergeant G. M. Cleary said that Ward broke into a locked room and stole £45. He hid the money in an empty room until the next day, and used some of it to pay debts. Ward admitted the offence on June 15. INDECENT ASSAULT Charged with indecently assaulting a boy aged 12 and a boy aged 11 .on May 24, Robin Arthur Walker, aged 26, a driver, pleaded guilty. He was convicted and remanded in custody until June 19. REMANDED Charged with receiving goods, valued at £4O 18s 6d, knowing them to have been stolen, on May 29, Douglas Rang! Cowan, aged 22, pleaded guilty. He was convicted and remanded on bail until June 22. CARELESS DRIVING Charged with driving Carelessly on the Allen streetMadras Street intersection, William Joseph Gidlow pleaded guilty. He was convicted and fined £7. It was said that a car travelling south along Madras street had to swerve to the wrong side of the road to avoid Gidlow, and struck a car coming north. A stop sign is at the intersection. FINED £6 “I won’t touch your licence because of your very good record, but to overtake on an intersection is almost dangerous driving,” said the Magistrate when Gordon Major Steel, a taxi-driver, pleaded guilty to a charge of careless driving on March •6. Steel was fined £6. OTHER TRAFFIC CHARGES On other charges brought by the City Council traffic department, fines were imposed as follows:

Exceeding 30 miles an hour: Josephus Adri anus Van Arendonk, £5; Timothy James Thomson, £4; Leslie William Forward. £3; Roger John Anstiss, £4; Eric Rowland Austin, £4; David Arthur Billington, £4; Francis Patrick Bowden, £4; Frederick Andrew Bradfield, £4; Gary Dion

Christie, £4; Alan Brian Clark, £4; Ernest Reid Cook, £6; David Davies, £6; John Alan Dobson, £4; Ivan John Emslie, £4 (failing to produce licence, £4); Kenneth John Ewing, £4; John Lewis Grubb, £4; Allan Douglas Hastie, £4; Patrick George Johnson, £4; Eric Nelson Liddy, £5; Richard Nash, £4; James William Nicholls, £5; Raymond John Orr, £3; Oliver Donaldson Petrie, £4; Kevin Raymond Richards, £4; John Richard Sheldon, £4; Raymond Joseph Sanderson, £4; Graham Trevor Smith, £2 '(no safety helmet, £1); Antonius Stavenviter, £4; Charles Lincoln Suckling, £4; Peter James Walker, £4 (failing to produce licence, convicted and discharged); Leo Frederick Whittle, £5; Graeme Robert Williamson, £4. Failing to stop at compulsory stop: Joan Kathleen Brown, £4; Stuart Lindsay Bryant, £4; Jan De Bruin, £5; Ronald -Lex Muncaster, £5; William Henry Thorpe, £5.

Failing to give way at pedestrian crossing: Patrick Dennis Sumner, £4 and licence cancelled for one month (failing to stop for traffic officer, £3); Warren . Williams, £3 (failing to display L plates, £2; tarrying passenger with L plates, £1). No safety chain on trailer: Gordon Joseph Colin Dann, £3; Allan Bruce Ford, £3; Brian Joseph O’Shaughnessy, £4 (failing to produce driver’s licence, £2). Failing to comply with traffic lights: Clifford Rogan Lomax, £7; Raymond William Yardley, £7 (no driver’s licence, £4). No heavy traffic licence: Canterbury Dairy Farmers, Ltd, £4; Hector Mathew Jarden, £4; John Keith Sanders, £5. Failing to give way to the right: lan Keith Baldwin, £4; Frederick Duffield, £5; Miles Peter Johnston, £6. Exceeding 20 miles an hour: William John Bennison, £3; Neil Bonner, £3. Parking offences: Kenneth Walter Hickmott, £3; Kenneth John Thomson, £2. , Failing to yield right of way: Sally Scott Withell, £5; Peter James Wallace Cook, £4. Using power-cycle to tow another vehicle: Michael Edward Gibbens, £3. Accepting tow while on power-cycle: John Patrick Ballinger, £3. Unable to stop within half clear distance: William Murphy, £6. Failing to produce driver’s licence: Glen Richard Edwards, £5. No warrant of fitness: Rex Campbell, £3 (no driver’s licence, £3). Unsafe load: Robert Winston Horne, £5. No certificate of fitness: Edward George Avery, £3.

Unlicensed vehicle: Robert Gordon Finley, £4. Failing to carry certificate

of fitness: Canterbury Tractor Company, Ltd, £4. Failing to give way at giveway sign; Albert James Cross, £4. CIVIL OASES (Before Mr E. S. J. Crutchley, judgment' summonses The following orders were made on judgment summonses:— Norman Percival G. Hogwood, motor dealer, Courtenay street, to pay H. W. Bullivant and Company, Ltd. £6 13s, in default seven days' imprisonment, warrant suspended while £1 a week is paid; K. R. Baulch, Ward street, to pay F. G. and A. Reid £45 12s 8d (30 days’ or £2 a week); W. Baird, labourer, Liverton crescent, to pay Vibrapac Blocks, Ltd. £SI 13s fid (30 days or £1 a week); W. Baird, labourer. Liverton crescent, to pay Papanui Timber Company, Ltd. £3O 13s 3d (30 days or £1 a week); O. Livingstone, married woman, Springs road, to pay F. E. Plummer £l4 10s (10 days or 10s a week); Hazel Myzpah Kerr, married woman, Buchan street, to pay Cleary and Belmer £2 12s fid (three days or 10s a week). Max Singer, unemployed, Young street, to pay W. A. Kennedy £7O 5s (70 days or £1 a week); R. McAlister, workman, Jutland street, to pay HobournScott, Ltd. £lB 10s (10 days or £1 a week); Violet Helena Roberts, married woman, Hampshire street, to pay Cleary and Belmer £4 17s «d (four days or 10s a week); G. Gardner, married woman, Middlepark road, to pay Maceys Floral Studio £3 (three days or. 10s a week); T. Skipper, married woman, Kaiapoi R.D., to pay T. Armstrong and Company, Ltd. £lB 17s 5d (20 days or 10s a week). J. G. Mouatt, worker, Wales street, to pay Home Improvement Finance Company, Ltd. £25 13s 4d (25 days or £1 a week); D. A. Cameron, married woman, Aorangi road, to pay Hitchings £l4 18s 2d (five days or 5s a week); Gary Ernest Holtham, salesman, Ebony street, to pay Staffordshire Finance Corporation, Ltd. £55 (50 days or £1 a week); Wilfred Thomas Dilks, carpet layer, Worcester street, to pay E. B. Dilks £3B 18s (30 days or 10s a week); Ruby I. Brown, Helwood terrace, to pay Malcolm James Robertson £l6 7s 6d (15 days or 10s a week). M. D. McGrath, factory assistant, Clyde road, to pay Young, Hunter, Cook and Penlington £9 7s (10 days or £1 a week); Alan J. McMurtrie, driver, Locksley avenue, to pay McCarthy and Rockhouse £5 6s fid (five days or £1 a week): A. G. Mayo, married woman, Newberry street, to pay Bell, Taylor, Hattaway and Dingwall £6 Ils 4d (five days or 5s a week); Eric Gordon Geddes, laundryman, Hampshire street, to pay Arthur Thomson £7 17s (six days or £1 a week); N. Crofts, spinster, Cambridge terrace, to pay C. A. Laskey £8 10s (six days or £1 a week).

Murray Reid Fox, truck driver, Tunbridge street, to pay Charles Henry Murphy £93 2s 3d (60 days or £2 a week); C. B. Edgeworth, workman, Bower avenue, to pay Hutt Valley Consumers Co-op. Society, Ltd. £24 9s 9d (20 days or £1 a week); Ivy E. Reid, married woman, Dunsandel, to pay Nelson Tillman. Ltd. £lB 14s 9d (15 days or 10s a week); A. E. Sluce, workman, care of J. Deyell and Company, Ltd. to pay D. A. McCaskey £52 15s fid (50 days or £1 a week); Anthony Robert Anderson, driver, care of Tyreways (1960), Ltd. to pay the Public Trustee £l2 5s (10 days or £1 a week).

T. T. O’Connor, labourer, Godley avenue, to pay Wises Grocery £35 19s fid (30 days imprisonment or £1 a wek); Wi Tare Timoti, workman, London street, Lyttelton, to pay Ngaltahu Maori Trust Board £236 Ils 2d (60 days or £1 10s a week).