Magistrate’s Court Youth Fined £10, Licence Cancelled For Y ear

Press, Volume CV, Issue 31057, 12 May 1966, Page 23

Magistrate’s Court Youth Fined £10, Licence Cancelled For Y ear

Derek Lionel Douglas Suckling, aged 17, a student, was fined £lO and his driver’s licence was cancelled for a year when he was convicted by Mr E A. Lee, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday on a charge of driving in a manner which might have been dangerous on Fendalton road on January 28. He pleaded not guilty and was represented by Mr R. L. Kerr. Alexander Roderick Mathieson, a civil servant, said he was driving home from work along Fendalton road. He was approaching the Holmwood road intersection when he was passed by a car travelling at between 40 and 45 miles an hour. The overtaking vehicle started to come back on its correct side of the road when the driver decided to pass the car in front of witness. As he did this he came to the bend on the wrong side of the road. A bus which was approaching from the opposite direction had to brake and take evasive action. The defendant’s car swerved sharply to the left and then to the right and just missed the front of the bus. When the line of traffic stopped for the traffic officer on point duty at the Straven road intersection he obtained the number of the car which had been involved in the overtaking movement, Mathieson said. FINED £lO David Brian Rothera, aged 31, a railway fireman, was convicted and fined £lO for being found without lawful excuse in a building without intent to commit any other offence, on May 11. Sergeant P. J. Alty said that about 12.15 a.m. on May 11 the complainant heard a noise in the kitchen and when he investigated saw a footprint on the floor and then a face outside the window. When the police were called they found Rothera in another room of the house standing in front of a mirror. Rothera said that he had gone into the wrong house looking for a party. CHARGE REDUCED A charge of driving in a manner which might have been dangerous against Gordon Desmond McDonald, aged 23. a french polisher, was amended to careless driving. McDonald (Mr R. L. Kerr) denied the original charge but pleaded guilty to the amended charge and was fined £l2 and had his driver’s licence endorsed for two years. McDonald pleaded guilty to a further charge of using worn tyres and was fined £3. OTHER TRAFFIC CHARGES Traffic prosecutions bought by the Transport Department with Court costs £1 10s in each case were as follows: Exceeding 30 miles per hour: James Henry Orr, £2 (failing to stop at stop sign, £5); James Davidson Walker, £4; John Anderson, £5: John Alberts, £6: Michael Bede Brown, £3 (failing to yield right of way, £5); Philip Richard Hughes. £4; Donald Alexander McDonald. £4 (failing to keep left, £7 10s); Keith Roderick John McPherson, £5; Derek Allan Manning, £4: Edwin John Stephen, £5. ordered to attend course of

traffic lectures; Barry James Robin, £6 (no warrant of fitness, £1); Keith Leonard Stirling, £4. Passing on intersection: Henry Chesmar, £4; Russell Kingsford Sellars, £4.

Exceeding axle weight: Seiwyn Casewoods, Ltd., £5 (exceeding heavy traffic licence, £3); Palmer Daily Freight, £lO (exceeding heavy traffic licence, £10); Bernard Ryan, £lO (exceeding heavy traffic licence, £10). No heavy traffic licence: Waitaki Earthworks, Ltd., £1 (no certificate of fitness, £1); A. R. Guthrey and Company, Ltd., £2; Robert Humphrey Hudson, £3. Proceeding from stop sign when way not clear: Stanley James Geibel Gibson, £lO. Unregistered motor vehicle: Gallen John Simpson, £5. Failing to stop at a compulsory stop sign: Edgar Vincent Rickerby, £5; Meryl Dorothy Mehlhoft, £4; Neil Graeme Barton, £lO, disqualified from driving for three months (no warrant of fitness, £3); Rex Minifie, £o. Driving without reasonable consideration: Frederick Joseph Beattie, £5 Exceeding 30 miles an hour without safety helmet: Stuart Edwin Cotty, £3: Roderick James McKenzie, £4 (wrong class of driver’s licence, £5). Exceeding 55 miles an hour: Edwin Charles Jeremy Keach, £6; Francis Gilbert Morrison, £5 (exceeding temporary speed

limit, £7); Kevin Rex Naish, £10; Edward George Wood, £5. No warrant of fitness: Colin James Kingley. £3: David Rawland Antony Skyme, £3; Thomas Tyson, £3; W. J. Edlin and Sons Ltd., £3. Breach at school crossing: Roger Sorokoput, £7. Exceeding temporary speed limit: Clifton William Gordon Stanley, £7. Unreasonable use of warning device: Michael William Lambie, £5. Passing in no-passing area: Edwin Frazer White, £lO, disqualified from driving for three months. No vehicle authority: John Edge, £5. Vehicle dangerously loaded: Crown Crystal Glass, £lO. Unsound tyres: Richard James Robinson, £5. Exceeding heavy traffic licence: Arthur Thompson, £4. No driver’s licence: Geoff Whitt, £B. Insufficient lights: Gary William Luke, £lO. (Before Mr K. H. J. Headifen, S.M.) FALSE PRETENCES A woman, whose name was suppressed and who was represented by Mr J. N Matson, pleaded guilty to three charges of false pretences by cashing valueless cheques to a total value of £35. She was convicted and remanded for a probation officer’s report.