MAGISTRATE’S COURT Fined £40, Barred For Five Years

Press, Volume CV, Issue 30975, 3 February 1966, Page 7

MAGISTRATE’S COURT Fined £40, Barred For Five Years

The driver of a car which travelled at speeds up to 75 miles an hour in heavy traffic in Lincoln road and other roads in the locality over a total distance of seven miles on the night of December 31 was convicted and fined a total of £4O on three charges by Mr K. H. J. Headifen, SM, in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday. He was disqualified from driving for five years.

The driver, Eric James Lewis, aged 17, a labourer, pleaded guilty by letter to charges of failing to stop for a siren, having insufficient lights, and reckless driving.

Traffic Officer R. N. Etwell said he first noticed the defendant’s car without lights in Symes road at 9.30 p.m. He followed it in Hazeldean road, Lincoln road, and Annex road, where it reached a speed of 40 miles an hour.

He said the defendant drove through the grounds of Sunnyside Hospital, past 15-mile-an-hour signs at 45 miles an hour, and back on to Lincoln road, where he passed a line of other vehicles in the face of oncoming traffic. Traffic Officer Etwell said he reached a speed of 80 miles an hour in pursuit of the defendant but was unable to apprehend him until the defendant turned into a blind street and was forced to stop at the end. The Magistrate said the defendant’s driving could have caused a serious injury. “One cannot speak in terms too strong about this kind of driving. He should be put off the road for a considerable time and I propose to do this.” TRAFFIC CASES

In other prosecutions brought by the Transport Department convictions were entered and fines imposed as follows: Exceeded 30 miles an hour: Gregory Joseph Kane, £8 (no warrant of fitness, £4); Richard James Condick, £5: Edward William Holland, £5 (failed to keep to the left, £5); Trevor Mante Faass. £4; Keith Robert Sanders. £5: Roland William Banks, £3; John David Edmonds, £3; Hugh William Paterson £3: Colin Graeme Cameron. £0; Clifford Albert Gorley, £8; Neville William Duggan, £8: Gaynor Margaret Nichols, £8; Thomas O’Donaghue £6: Laurence Kevin Cairns, £7; Douglas Kenneth Connell £5 (no safety helmet, £5); Stewart Kyle, £8: Rex Mervyn George Davies, £3: Margaret Pat Mortensen, £8: Robert Reid, £5; Peter Tweedie Waller, £8; Peter Lionel Watson, £7; Julian Kenneth Wooldridge, £B. Failed to stop at sign: Kenneth George Low, £6; Barbara Maud Read. £7; Yvonne Denise Holland, £8: Douglas Brian Walls, £8; Owen Francis Stopforth, £8; Lawrence Charles King, £6; Roger David Kingsbury, £7. disqualified for three months; Edward George Dodge. £6: Neville Hepburn, £B. No warrant of fitness: Margaret Campbell Harper, £5; Charles McLean Souter, £4; Kevin George Coles, £4; George Frederick Weeks, £3; Trevor Thomas King, £4; Ryan Brothers. £4; Anthony John Still, costs only (crossed against lights, £7, disqualified for three months, failed to produce licence, costs only). Exceeded temporary speed limit: Robert Victor Thomas Borer, £4; Bruce Nuttall Sullivan, £3; Joseph Henry Alexander, £4; Patricia Day, £3; Francis Herbert Churton. £4; Clarence Hunt. £3: Patricia Ann Kibblewhite, £3: Charles Henry Sandom, £3.

Exceeded heavy traffic licence: E H. Boyce and Co., Ltd., £5 (exceeded axle weight, £3); Crown Crystal Glass Co. Ltd., £6: J. Deyell and Co. Ltd., £6; Fletcher Construction Co. Ltd., £4: Rhinds Transport Ltd., £5 (exceeded axle weight, £5). Failed to produce driver’s licence: Elaine McGingan, £4 (no warruit of fitness, £4); Noel James Foulkes, £5; Walter Charles Hawthorne, £5; Tui Tuherangl Maurirere, £4 (no warrant of fitnese, £3). Overtook on no-passing Hnes:

Robert Maxwell Stewart £5, disqualified from driving for three months from February 11. nu Ca J eles l driving: Carne Airlni Rhodes Rolleston. £8; Neville wiVn” £ hll . lip ’’ f 8: Bernard Warner Healey. £5, disqualified for one month (no driver’s licence, £4).

T„K r „ OSS A e .? a ga‘ns‘ traffic lights: John Allan Campbell, £7: dlsmonths: Kelvin Richard Williams, £B. Permitted use of unlicensed vehicle: David John Dickson, (earned pillion passenger. £3): Barry Daniel Smith, £3 Proceeded from stop sign before way clear: Stanley James Gibson. £5, disqualified for one month.

t 0 «l ve way to right: John Trevor Richardson, £5. Exceeded 55 miles an hour: Malcolm Murray Brown, £7; Jonathan Woodhouse Lee, £2O (no safety helmet, £10). Parted with driver’s licence: Peter James O’Halloran, £lO. No driver’s licence: Eric WllHam Pawsey, £5: Maria Franana van Den Bersselaar, £5. Insufficient lights: Warwick ?, a “ sa L Be njes. £5: Kenneth Stroughton Slander, £5. D™? 6 .without reasonable HFa* Trevor John No safety helmet: Bruce Alexander Gordon, £5; Wayne Alfred Kearney, £B. „, Pasae . d wlth insufficient risibility: Norman Wallace Cleary, £B. Exceeded axle weight: Central Carrying Company, Ltd., £6. Parking offence: Richard Garry Gates, £2. Insecure trailer: Steven James Bird, £4. Exceeded 40 miles an hour with trailer: Ronald James Patten, £7. Failed to keep to left: Terrence McDonald, £B. Failed to dip lights: Gary William Meyerhoff. £3; Andrew David Sim, £3. FaHed to carry heavy traffic licence: Unilever (N.Z.), Ltd., FOR SENTENCE Lindsay Clifford Gillard (Mr H. J. B. Quigley) was convicted and remanded on bail to February 11 for sentence on a charge of driving while disqualified at Rakaia on December 19. He pleaded not guilty. FOUND ON SHIP Sophia Miki Taylor, aged 21, a machinist, was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence within six months If called upon on a charge of being found on board the Argentinean Reefer at Lyttelton on February 2. She pleaded guilty. SUSPENDED SENTENCE Ethel Jo Helomebright, aged 39, a laundry worker (Mr R. G. Blunt), was ordered to come up for sentence within six months if called upon when she appeared for sentence on charges of theft of £l9 19s on January 22 and theft of £33 14s 5d on October 8. She had previously been convicted of the offences. REMANDED Terrence Andrew Harper, aged 19. a plasterer, was remanded in custody to February 10 on charges of breaking and entering the Beach Ball tearooms at Sumner on February 1, and failing to report at the periodic detention centre. Sydney Christian Mateke was remanded on bail to February 10 on a charge of breaking and entering the Beach Ball tearooms at Sumner on February 1. David James, aged 38, a waterside worker (Mr W. F. Brown) was remanded on ball to February 10 on a charge of driving while under the influence or drink or drugs on the Christchurch - Lyttelton tunnel road on February 1. Carel Adrian Van Rees, aged 32, a welder, was remanded on bail to February 10 on a charge of assaulting Maureen Margaret Van Rees on February 2. He pleaded not guilty. Robert Hodgins, aged 33, a watchmaker, was remanded on bail to February 10 on a charge of resisting Constable lan Murray Gardener in the execution of his duty on February I. He pleaded not guilty. (Before Mr E. A. Lee, S.M.) FINED £3O. A charge of driving in a manner which might have been dangerous in Oxford terrace on October 30, against James Michael O’Toole, aged 19. a drainlayer’s labourer (Mr R. L. Kerr), was reduced to one of careless use of a motor-vehicle. O’Toole, who pleaded not guilty to the original charge and guilty to the amended charge, was convicted and fined £l5 and was disqualified from driving for one year. On a further charge of failing to stop after an accident on the same date, to which he pleaded guilty, he was convicted and fined £l5 and was disqualified from driving for a

further six months. He was convicted and ordered to pay costs on a charge of failing to ascertain whether anyone was injured, to which he pleaded guilty. FINED £2O Charged with using a motor vehicle carelessly on Moorhouse avenue on August 1, Clifford Jones, aged 33, a car dealer (Mr A. D. Holland), was convicted and fined £2O. and ordered to pay witness's expenses of £l. He pleaded not guilty. Kenneth John Jones said that at 8.30 p.m. on August 1 he was stationary at the traffic lights on Lincoln road waiting to turn right into Moorhouse avenue. When the lights turned green he moved off, and was part of the way across the intersection when he saw a car coming across the intersection from his right at high speed. He braked, but was unable to avoid a collision. CHARGE DISMISSED A charge against John Edward Robbins, aged 25, a railway fireman (Mr R. G. Blunt), of careless use in Moorhouse avenue on October 16, was dismissed on the payment of witnesses’ expenses of £2. Robbins had pleaded not guilty. On a further charge of failing to give way at a give-way sign at the intersection of Brougham street and Colombo street on November 15, to which he pleaded guilty, Robbins was convicted and fined £7 and was disqualified from driving for one month. (Before Messrs A. H. Dale and A. C. Rhodes, Justices of the Peace.) COMMITTED FOR TRIAL Simon Patrick Callanan, aged 22, an unemployed workman, was committed for trial in the Supreme Court on charges of breaking and entering Auto Radio Installations, Ltd., 200 Montreal street, and unlawfully taking a car, valued £790, the property of Charles Seymour Luney on December 10. Callanan, who pleaded not guilty to both charges, was represented by Mr G. T. Mahon. Applying for bail, Mr Mahon said Callanan had been in custody for almost seven weeks and it would be some time before he came for trial. Senior-Sergeant G. M. Cleary said the police strongly opposed bail as it was not in the public interest. Ball was refused. PLEADED GUILTY Robin Arthur Walker, aged 28, a driver, was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence on a charge of sodomy on a boy, aged 13, on December 27. He pleaded guilty and was represented by Mr R. G. Blunt.