LYTTELTON COURT Fined, Disqualified For Careless Use Of Car

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31111, 14 July 1966, Page 13

LYTTELTON COURT Fined, Disqualified For Careless Use Of Car

Charged with careless use of a motor-vehicle in Oxford street, Lyttelton, on June 18, Brian John Register, aged 19. a seaman, was convicted and fined £7 10s and was disqualified from driving for six months, when he appeared before Mr E. S. J. Crutchley, S.M., in the Lyttelton Magistrate’s Court yesterday. Register, who pleaded guilty, was also ordered to carry L-plates for three months after the expiration of his period of disqualification. Sergeant G. B. Rlach said that at 6.40 p.m. on June 18 Register was driving south on Oxford street. At the same time a police patrol car stopped at the give-way sign at the intersection of London street and Oxford street. Register then turned right into London street at an excessive speed, swinging across the incorrect side of the road as he did so. Sergeant Riach said that if the patrol car had been further towards the centre of the road there would have been a collision. Register had been drinking and his keys were taken from him. STOWED AWAY Charged with stowing away on the M.V. Waimea at Sydney on July 5, Robert James ( Osborne, aged 35, a seaman (Mr K. N. Hampton), was convicted and fined £lO, and ordered to pay restitution of £27 to the Union Steam Ship Company, and solicitor’s fees of £3 3s. An order was made for immediate payment. Sergeant Rlach said that Osborne had gone on board ' the Waimea the day she sailed from Sydney. Osborne was later discovered in a seaman’s cabin. Mr R. L. Kerr, who ap-

peared for the shipping company, said that the full fare of £27 was asked for in restitution. Mr Hampton said that Osborne was a New Zealand citizen who had been living in Sydney for some time. He had married there. Osborne had previously worked in the Waimea, and knew some of the seamen. His decision to stow away had been made on the spur of the moment He hoped to bring his wife and child to New Zealand as soon as possible. Charged with aiding and abetting Osborne to stow away in the M.V. Waimea on July 5, Roualeyn Archie Muir, aged 35, a seaman (Mr K. N. Hampton), was convicted and fined £5. He pleaded guilty. Sergeant Riach said that Osborne had been found in Muir’s cabin on July 7. Muir admitted that he had assisted the stowaway. Muir had said that there was an unwritten law among seamen to assist fellow union members in such circumstances. GARBAGE IN HARBOUR “This is the first case of its kind for many years,” said the Magistrate when he convicted Richard Henshaw, a master mariner, on a charge of discharging garbage into the inner harbour from the Port Montreal on April 28. Henshaw was fined £2. Mr R. L. Kerr appeared for him and entered a plea of guilty. RESERVED DECISION Decision was reserved on a charge of discharging oil into navigable waters from the Port Montreal on April 30 against John Miles Reid, a master mariner. Mr R. L. Kerr appeared for Reid and entered a plea of not guilty. Mr C. G. Penlington appeared for the Lyttelton Harbourmaster. Captain J. M. Partington said that at 10.30 a.m. on April 30 he went to investigate oil that was in the harbour near No. 2 wharf. The Port Montreal was the only vessel at that berth. There was no oil visible on the ship’s side near the oil discharges, but when the Port Montreal sailed later that day, Captain Partington said he noticed oil on the ship’s side where the fenders had been resting. CHARGE DISMISSED A charge against Reginald Murray Costello, aged 40, a workman (Mr K. N. Hampton), of breaking and entering the British Petroleum (N.Z.) Ltd. installation plant at Lyttelton on April 5, was dismissed at the conclusion of the prosecution evidence. Costello had pleaded not guilty. NOXIOUS WEEDS OFFENCE Charged with a breach of the noxious weeds act, Thomas Bachop (Mr A. K. Archer) was convicted and fined £1 10s. He pleaded guilty. OTHER CASES Exceeded axle weight limit: Durham Transport, Ltd. (two charges), £6. No driver’s licence: Henry Peina, £lO, disqualified from holding or obtaining a licence for six months. No warrant of fitness: Ernest Parratt, ordered to pay costs only. Sold liquor after hours: June Corona Boore, £6. Unlawfully on licensed premises after hours: Stuart Howison, £3; Findlay Howison, £3; Victor Wilson, £3.