MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28372, 3 September 1957, Page 9

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

MONDAY (Before Mr Rex C. Abernethy, S.M.) REMANDED Rex Colin Armstrong, aged 25, a cook (Mr D. W. Russell), charged with breaking and entering by night the shop of London House, Ltd., at 742 Colombo street, on August 31, and committing theft, was remanded to September 9. Mr Russell said he had been instructed to ask for bail and interim suppression of the name. Detective-Sergeant E. G. Ward said he had been instructed to oppose bail as there were several charges pending against accused.

Bail was refused and no order was made for suppression of accused’s name.

A man, whose name was ordered not to be published, was remanded to September 9 on a charge of being intoxicated when driving a motor-car on August 24.

Wilfred Charles Lucas, aged 32, a workman (Mr A. D. Holland), was remanded to September 9 on a charge of issuing a valueless cheque and obtaining £25 from the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd. Eail was allowed in the sum of £5O and one surety of £l5O

IMPRISONMENT FOR ASSAULT Gordon Roy Mclntyre, aged 23, a railways employee, was sentenced to 14 days’ imprisonment on a charge of assaulting Bartholomeus Herbertus Keestra on August 30. Inspector J. J. Halcrow said that at 2.20 a.m. on Friday, Keestra was having his supper in the locomotive cleaners’ room at Linwood. Accused told Keestra to put out the light, which was not done. Accused was not on duty at the time and had no authority to issue instructions. Mclntyre then struck Keestra and called him a “foreign pig.” Accused had been in trouble before for assault.

The Magistrate said accused had been in pretty serious trouble in 1951 and had twice been convicted of assault. “Dirty work and dirty language merits punishment,” he said.