MAGISTRATE’S COURT Truck-Driver Disqualified For Two Months, Fined £25
lan Murray Peters, aged 23, a truck-driver (Mr M. J. Glue), pleaded guilty in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday to charges that on June 8 at Hornby he failed to remove slippery material which had been spilled on the roadway from his vehicle, and that he had no driver’s licence. Mr H. J. Evans, S.M., was on the bench. Peters was convicted on each charge, fined £lO and disqualified from driving for two months on the charge of having no driver’s licence and fined £l5 for failing to remove the slippery material from the roadway. Detective-Sergeant P. Porteous said that early in the afternoon of June 8 Peters drove a truck along the Main South road through Hornby. Some of the wet brewery grain with which the truck was loaded was falling on to the roadway from the rear of the truck.
In places the wet grain lying on the roadway was inches thick. The wet grain was exceedingly slippery and had caused cars using the roadway to slide. Peters was stopped at Templeton. He had no driver’s licence. Mr Glue said that Peters had been driving for a large carrying firm which had a contract to remove brewery grain from the breweries, and on this occasion the grain was being taken to Weedons for use as fertiliser. Peters had known that the tail-board gear of the truck was defective, and had reported it to his employers, but nothing had been done. As the grain falling on the roadway had made no noise Peters had been unaware of what was happening. Peters was under a mistaken belief that his licence was current, but in fact it had expired about 11 months before he was stopped. SHOPLIFTING Ella Catherine Geary, aged 55, pleaded guilty to a charge that on July 8 she stole a pound of sausages and a packet of sausage meat, the property of Woolworths N.Z., Ltd., Sydenham. She was convicted and fined £lO. STOLE RUG Hene Kawa King Hazel, aged 17, a tolls operator, pleaded guilty to a charge that on June 29 she stole a woollen rug valued at £lO, the property of Malcolm Francis Milligan. The Magistrate said he would give Hazel a chance, and convicted and discharged her. FINED £35 “I thoroughly deplore the actions of the defendant—a man who, one would think, should have known better,” said the Magistrate when convicting Gordon Hugh Donald
Wright, aged 31, a land salesman, on a charge of behaving in an offensive manner, in Cranmer square on April 14. He was fined £35. Wright pleaded not guilty and was represented by Mr M. J. Glue. The Magistrate said Wright’s actions were wholly wrong and showed a shallow attitude towards sex, and children should be protected from it. TWO CHARGES DISMISSED Richard Nevile Otten, aged 16, a student (Mr A. P. C. Tipping), was fined £3 on a charge of giving false information on February 15 and ordered to pay costs only on a charge of having no warrant of fitness. He pleaded guilty to both these charges. Charges of failing to stop for a constable and having no driver’s licence, to which Otten pleaded not guilty, were dismissed. The Magistrate said the charges had not been proved beyond reasonable doubt. TRAFFIC PROSECUTIONS In prosecutions brought by the police convictions were entered and fines imposed as follows, with court cost of fl 10s on each charge:— Failed to give way: David Albert Bedford, £10; Alexander John Mennie, £10; Ross Desmond Fairley, £lO, disqualified for one month: Joseph Maraki, £6, disqualified for four months; Arthur Alan Hendy, £lO. Proceeded from stop sign before the way was clear: Robert Maxwell Gemmiil, £10; John Percival Robinson, £5 10s. No warrant of fitness: Robert Hugh Maher, £1 10s. Careless use: George Arthur Kirner, £5, disqualified for one month. (Before Mr E. A. Lee, S.M.) PROBATION George Raymond Burnett . Newman, aged 19, a truck ■ driver’s assistant (Mr R. L. Kerr) was placed on probation for 18 months and ordered to . pay £l5 towards the cost of the , prosecution on a charge of ■ stealing £lO in money and a : transistor radio to the value of ; £l5 on June 1, the property of Carol Audrey Cornish. The Magistrate told Newman that with his age and Ms record he was first-class I material for Borstal. : FINED £5 Charles Edward Cullen, aged 67, retired, was convicted and fined £5 on a charge of falling to give his name and address to David Edward Howells after an accident in Croydon street on April 26. DETENTION CENTRE Buckley John Kirner, aged 17, a woodcutter, was sent to the Waikeria Detention Centre on a charge of the theft of a suit and shoes to the value of £l4 on April 4, the property of Roy Henry Kane. Kirner was also placed on probation for one year after release and ordered to pay £l4 restitution. NAME SUPPRESSED A youth whose name was suppressed (Mr D. W. Russell) was remanded until July 11 when he appeared for sentence on charges of theft on June 7 and 8. CHARGE DISMISSED A charge of faiMng to yield the right of way at the Intersection of Armagh street and Fitzgerald avenue on April 29 against Jack Raymond Stokes, a carpenter, was dismissed. Stokes denied the charge and conducted his own defence. In dismissing the charge, the Magistrate said he was in doubt as to whether the power-cyclist, who collided with Stokes, had intended to travel straight through the intersection. TWO YOUTHS DISCHARGED John Alfred Inwood, aged 18 a farm hand, and Norman Allen Hewlnson, aged 19, a workman (Mr G. R. Lascelles for both), were charged with behaving in a disorderly manner in Papanui road on June 23. They pleaded not guilty and were discharged under section 42 of the Criminal Justice Act. They were ordered to pay costs. In discharging Inwood and Hewlnson, the Magistrate said that if youths were going to frequent public streets and behave in a manner which might offend the public, they ran the risk of punishment. (Before Mr J. D. Kinder, S.M.) THREE MONTHS’ DISQUALIFICATION James Glenullun Thompson, aged 39. a waterslder (Mr P. J, Thompson) was convicted, fined £lO, and disqualified from driving a motor-vehicle for three months, on a charge that he failed to stop his vehicle at a stop sign at the intersection of Breezes and Walnoni roads on May 12. He pleaded not guilty. FINED £lO Trevor John Ward, aged 17, an advertising clerk (Mr J. H. M. Dawson), was convicted and fined £lO on a charge of failing
to yield the right of way to a vehicle on his right while travelling west along Worcester street and crossing the intersection of Barbadoes street on February 19. FINED £5 Kevin Albert Ward, aged 19, a builder’s labourer (Mr W. A. Wilson), was convicted and fined £5 on a charge of driving a motor-vehicle without lights on Centaurus road about 8 p.m. on March 23. He pleaded guilty. A charge that Ward failed to stop when ordered to do so by a police constable was dismissed. Ward had pleaded not guilty to this charge. (Before Mr K. H. J. Headifen, S.M.) CHARGES DISMISSED Thomas Alfonso Condon, aged 53, a labourer (Mr L. M. O’Reilly), pleaded not guilty to charges that he drove a motorvehicle in Philpotts road in a careless manner and that he failed to ascertain if there were any injuries after an accident on February 26. Both charges were dismissed.
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