MAGISTRATE’S COURT Fined, Disqualified For Fatal Carelessness

Press, Volume CV, Issue 31007, 12 March 1966, Page 22

MAGISTRATE’S COURT Fined, Disqualified For Fatal Carelessness

On a charge of careless 8 driving causing the death of t Alfred Robert Victor Day on 5 December 24 in Riccarton c road, Glenn Thomas Davies. { aged 20, a cable tester (Mr R. J G. Blunt) was convicted and fined £3O and disqualified for I 18 months, when he appeared ’ before Mr J. D. Kinder, S.M., j in the Magistrate's Court yes- 1 terday. Davies pleaded not guilty to the charge. J. G. Clarke said that about c 7 p.m. on December 24 he t and his wife were about to J cross the pedestrian crossing \ on Riccarton road near £ Church corner. J They waited on the north i side of Riccarton road for traffic to stop and then { started to cross. t He saw Day and is wife on the opposite side of the road, moving across the 1 crossing toward them. “All of a sudden there was 1 a swish and a bang,” said < Clarke, “and the other couple disappeared. This car coming from the direction of the city 8 suddenly shot past right in “ front of me.” c Catherine Vera Savage said 1 she was waiting on her bicycle at the pedestrian crossing and saw two couples using ‘ the crossing. £ “I looked around and saw a car coming from behind q me,” she said. “I turned for- v ward and saw the car hit the ® man.” & Mr Blunt said that Davies q had given way to a power- K cyclist a few moments before. The power-cyclist made 1 a U-turn on the road in front R of him. The sun was in his x eyes and straight after this } he had seen some shapes ap- - pear in front of the car. TWO ON PROBATION Valerie Elizabeth Orpwood aged 18 (Mr W. A, Wilson) and Beverley Dawn Doak. aged 18 (Mr D. M. Palmer), each appeared for sentence on three charges of theft. Doak also appeared on a n charge of attempted theft. . Both were placed on probat- .. ion for 18 months. p The Magistrate said the , theft showed evidence of pre- . liminary scheming. "It was carried out in an [. Impudent and brazen fash- t ' ion.” he said. j Both defendants were ord- j ered to live and work where b directed and not to associate e with each other. E Each was also ordered to J, make restitution of £4 10s. ASSAULTED WIFE C Appearing for sentence on a t charge of assaulting bls wife on v February 27. Wharanui : Wharepapa Taiepa, aged 28, a * sawmill hand (Mr M. G. L. t Loughnan) was convicted and \ placed on probation for 12 months. He was also ordered 1 to abstain from alcohol and pay £lO towards the cost of the [ prosecution ' j IMPRISONMENT 5 lan Keith Morgan, aged 35, a \ labourer (Mr A. R. Cottrell), who « pleaded not guilty to one charge ' of false pretences and one t charge of being unlawfully on ] an enclosed yard was convicted and sentenced to two months' 1 Imprisonment on each charge, the sentences to be cumulative, f He was also ordered to make restitution of £3 2s 6d. (Before Mr H. J. Evans, S.M.) s BURGLAR SENTENCED * A sentence of two years pro- v bation on each charge was tmposed on Leo Horne, aged 23. '

a carpenter, when he appeared for sentence on six charges of burglary committed on September 27 last year. Horne was ordered to pay £l5 costs on each charge and make restitution of £9O 6s. A condition of his probation was that he must live and work where directed. It was the first time Horne had been before the Court, the Magistrate said. With his background the offences were quite inexcusable, and he deserved imprisonment. BROKE WINDOW A 19-year-old girl, who grew impatient while waiting to make a telephone call and forced the door of the booth open, striking the woman who was inside, was convicted and fined £lO on a charge of assaulting Pauline Varnham on December 19 and £2 10s on a further charge ot wilfully damaging a window of the telephone booth valued at 10s on the same date. The girl, Huia Hona, a machinist, pleaded guilty to both charges and was ordered to pay 10s restitution. OBSCENE LANGUAGE An unemployed bushman. Michael Sydney Scott, aged 22. was convicted and fined £lO on a charge of using obscene language in Cathedral square on March 10. He pleaded guilty. CARELESS USE On a charge of careless use of a vehicle, Mohi Horua, aged 22, a plasterer (Mr G. T. Mahon), was convicted and fined £lO and disqualified for two months. Horua pleaded not guilty. TRAFFIC CHARGES On traffic charges brought by the police, offenders were dealt with as follows, with costs of £1 10s in each case: No driver’s licence: Geoffrey Hugh Parlane, £7 10s and disqualified for two months (no warrant of fitness, 10s); Thomas Rangi Tuuta, £lO, and disqualified for three months; Valmai Nancy Young, £7 10s, and disqualified for two months. Failed to give way: Leslie Howison Jones. £lO. Opened car door causing injury: Richard Marley Brown, £2. Richard Marley Brown. £2. Failed to stop at stop sign: Mervyn James Kedz’.ie, £5. No warrant of fitness: Allan James Parlane. 10s.

(Before Mr K H. S. Headlfen, S.M.) THREE CHARGES ‘'Since you are on probation and I consider it best that you be left in your job. I will not deal with your licence,” the Magistrate told Donald James Grieve, aged 19, a labourer (Mr P. G. S. Penlingtom, who was convicted on charges of using a motor vehicle carelessly, failing to stop after an accident, and failing to ascertain whether a person had been injured, all in Linwood avenue on November 13. Grieve, who pleaded not guilty to all three charges, was fined £l5 on the charge of failing to stop and was also ordered to attend a course of traffic lectures. He was fined £5 on the charge of careless use and was ordered to pay costs of £1 10s on the charge of failing to ascertain whether a person was injured CHARGE DISMISSED Dennis John Brewin, aged 17. a workman (Mr M. J. Glue) pleaded not guilty to a charge of using a motor vehicle carelessly on Linwood avenue on January 17. The charge was dismissed. (Before Mr E. A. Lee, S.M.) FAILED TO STOP Douglas James Rennie, aged 17, a pastrv cook (Mr W. S. Smith) pleaded not guilty to a charge that on January 9 he had failed to stop his car m Cathedral square when signalled to do so by a constable. He was convicted and fined £7 10s. COSTS ONLY Archie Campbell Currie, aged 32. a traveller (Mr K. N. Hampton) pleaded not guilty to a charge of using a motor vehicle carelessly in Baisweil Junction road on October 19. He was convicted and ordered to pay costs of £1 10s and witnesses’ expenses of £4.

CHARGE AMENDED Kenneth Hardliner, aged 21, a sales representative (Mr A. P. C. Tipping) pleaded not guilty to a charge of driving at a dangerous speed in Ilam road on November 27. After the hearing of the evidence the charge was amended to driving carelessly. Gardiner pleaded guilty to that charge, and was fined £2O and his licence was cancelled for six months from March 18.