MAGISTRATE’S COURT Disqualified Driver Gaoled For One Month

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31113, 16 July 1966, Page 20

MAGISTRATE’S COURT Disqualified Driver Gaoled For One Month

Patrick Philip Hutana, aged 20, a fish splitter, pleaded guilty in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday to a charge that on March 27, in Stoneyhurst street, he drove while disqualified. Mr H. J. Evans, S.M., convicted Hutana and sentenced him to one month’s gaol. Detective-Sergeant D. Porteous said that a constable found Hutana sitting in the cab of a vehicle which had crashed into a fence surrounding an empty section.

The Magistrate told Hutana that he had a bad record and that in August of last year he had been disqualified for one year on a charge of dangerous driving. “This offence was committed on March 27, and since then you have tried to get out of it. First, you told the constable your licence was in the cab, and it wasn’t. Later you said your solicitor had got your licence back for you. However, he hadn't. He had not even made an application.” The Magistrate said Hutana had previously served a Borstal term, and on this occasion he would be imprisoned. HARBOURED ESCAPER Vernon Claude Newcombe, aged 22, a truck driver, pleaded guilty to a charge that betwen July 12 and July 15 he harboured an escaper from the Child Welfare Home in Ferry road. He was convicted and fined £5O. Detective-Sergeant Porteous said the police called at Newcombe’s flat about 11.45 p.m. on July 15 and found the girl. Newcombe said the girl had lived there for three days, and before taking her to his flat he knew she was an escaper. THEFT Charged with the theft of a suitcase and clothing valued at £2l 5s on July 14, Hine Kawa Hazel, aged 17, unemployed, was convicted and remanded on bail to July 21 for sentence. She pleaded guilty. Detective-Sergeant Porteous said that on the morning of July 14 Hazel had been packing her belonging in readiness to leave the boarding-house where she was living. She found that her suitcase was not large enough to carry all her possessions, so she went into the next room and took a suitcase full of clothing. She removed some of this clothing but took the rest in the suitcase. She was arrested that day as she was about to board the West Coast rail-car. SEAMAN CHARGED Robert Hunter, aged 25, a seaman (Mr S. G. Erber), pleaded guilty to a charge under the Shipping and Seaman Act that on June 2 at Lyttelton he failed to notify the Superintendent of Mercantile Marine of his change of address. He was convicted and fined £lO. A distress warrant was issued, but its execution was suspended, and bail was granted. The Magistrate told Hunter that he was subject to deportation. CONVICTED

Gary Vincent Shields, aged 18, a stoneworker (Mr A. P. C. Tipping), pleaded guilty to a charge that at Dunedin on June 18 he attempted to have unlawful sexual intercourse with a girl aged 14. He was convicted and remanded on bail till July 25 for sentence.

DRUNK Charles Henry Gosney, aged 25, a freezing worker, pleaded

guilty to a charge that on July 1* he was found drunk in Cathedral square. He also admitted one previous conviction for a similar offence within the last six months. He was convicted and fined £2, in default three days’ imprisonment. DISQUALIFIED Garry Clarence Gilbert, aged 18, a labourer (Mr A. F. W. Wilding), was convicted and fined £l2 and disqualified from driving for six months on a charge of falling to report damage after an accident in Stanmore road on April 3. On a charge of careless driving on the same day he was fined £7 and disqualified for three months, the terms to be cumulative. He pleaded guiltv to both charges. FALSE PARTICULARS Charged with giving false particulars to the police on July 14, Bill Sincock was convicted and fined £l2. On a further charge of being a minor in a public bar he was convicted and fined £3. He pleaded guilty to both charges. FINED £6 Wilfred Cecil Kennedy, aged 57, a farmer (Mr J. G. Leggat). was convicted and fined £6 on a charge that he proceeded over the stop sign when the way was not clear at the intersection of Foremans and Main South roads about 4 p.m. on April 13. He pleaded not guilty. OTHER TRAFFIC CASES In other traffic prosecutions brought by the police, convictions were entered and fines imposed as follows, with court costs of £1 IDs on each charge: Failed to give way: John Allan Archer. £7, licence cancelled for one month: Lea Henretaa Holtcamn, £7; Garry Allan Lewis, £3, disqualified from holding a licence for two months (no driver’s licence, £lO, disqualified for four months), periods of disqualification to be cumulative: Francis Hugh Williams. £7: Edward Hastings Jones. £8: Terrence Leslie O'Neill, £8: Patricia Ann Palmer, £« 10s, disqualified for one month: Thomas Gordon Howard Rogers, £lO. Careless use: William Barry Cook, £5, disqualified for two months: John Barryman Petterson, £6. disqualified for nine months. Exceeded 30 miles an hour: Gerald Leonard Boot, £5. Operated motor-cycle without a silencer: Leslie Peter Brown, £6. Failed to produce change of ownership and warrant of fitness when car sold: Douglas Richard Tranter, £1 10s (failed to notify change of ownership, £1 10s). Failed to notify deputy-regis-trar of sale of a car: Peter Alexander Murray, £4. (Before Mr E, A. Lee, S.M.) ROGUES AND VAGABONDS Wayne Robert Parata, aged 19, unemployed (Mr R.> L. Kerr), was admitted to probation for 18 months and ordered to pay £l5 toward the cost of prosecution when he appeared for sentence on charges that on June 22 In Colombo street he was deemed to be a rogue and vagabond in that he was in possession of housebreaking implements, and that he was deemed to be a rogue and vagabond in that being a suspected person he frequented Colombo street with felonious intent. On a charge that being a minor he was found in a bar he was fined £5.

Sonny Tui Bennett, aged 20. an unemployed workman, was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence within 12 months if called on, and to pay £l5 towards the cost of prosecution when he appeared for sentence on charges that on June 22 he was deemed to be a rogue and vagabond in that he had in his possession housebreaking implements and also that he being a suspected person he frequented Colombo street with felonious intent

The Magistrate said he had imposed that sentence on Bennett because he was already on probation. Robert John Stevens was placed on probation for one year and ordered to pay £l5 toward the cost of prosecution when he appeared for sentence on charges that on June 22 he was deemed to be a rogue and vagabond in that being a suspected person he was found in possession of housebreaking implements and also that being a suspected person he frequented Colombo street with felonious intent. The Magistrate told Stevens that he could leave New Zealand to return to Australia provided he had the consent of

the probation officer but not before he had paid the £l5 towards the cost of prosecution. PERIODIC DETENTION “Let me warn you you have only just escaped from Borstal on this occasion,” the Magistrate told Allan James Mcßride, aged 17, a storeman (Mr K. M. Hampton), when he appeared for sentence. On charges that on April 5 he broke and entered the Kaiapoi Golf Club with intent to commit a crime, and that on June 20 he unlawfully got on to a motor-cycle, he was admitted to periodic detention for six months. On charges that on June 16 he stole a crash helmet valued at £5 the property of Malcolm James Dobson and that on June IS he unlawfully interfered with a motorcycle he was placed on probation for 18 months, and ordered to make restitution of £3. CARELESS USE A charge against Alan Stanley Bertinshaw, a student (Mr N. D. Thomson) of careless driving on March 23 was dismissed. Bertinshaw pleaded not guilty. The Magistrate said there were too many inconsistencies in the evidence. FINED £6 Ngarate Hine Orchard, aged 23, a housewife (Mr G. T. Scott) was convicted and fined £6 on a charge of failing to yield the right of way at the intersection of Rlccarton and Yaldhurst roads. Church corner, about 8 p.m. on April 23. She pleaded guilty. FINED £8 Graham Meredith Forgle, aged 19, a clerk (Mr G. R. Lascelles) was convicted and fined £8 on a charge that he failed to yield the right of way at a pedestrian crossing in Rlccarton avenue on Marcn 7 He had pleaded not guilty, (Before Mr R. D. Jamieson, S.M.) CARELESS USE Charles Edward Harrington, aged 66, a caretaker (Mr D. H. Stringer) was convicted and fined £8 on a charge of driving a motor vehicle carelessly in Rlccarton road, near the Riccarton Mall, about 1 p.m. on May 18. He pleaded not guilty.