Magistrate’s Court Two Years’ Probation For Assault At Kaikoura

Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28450, 3 December 1957, Page 20

Magistrate’s Court Two Years’ Probation For Assault At Kaikoura

Motutapu Waere, aged 26, a railway bridgeman, who last week admitted charges of assaulting two railwaymen at Kaikoura and presenting firearms at them, was admitted to probation for two years when he appeared f .°J‘ sente nce before Mr Rex C Abernethy, S.M., in the Magistrate s Court yesterday. The Magistrate directed Waere to J^ e . out anc * maintain a prohibition order.

The Magistrate said that Waere had apparently been a “decent enough fellow’’ up to the present. Before committing the offences he had been ill with Asian influenza, and. had been mixing the drugs prescribed for him with too much liquor. “If you had had any hostile intent towards those men I would have sent you to gaol for a long period,” the Magistrate said. THREE MONTHS GAOL Melva Irene Ryne, aged 36. who appeared for sentence, was convicted and sent to gaol for three, months on a charge of stealing goods valued at £ll. (Before Mr Raymond Ferner, S.M.) CARGO THEFT A 32-year-old railway shunter. Alister Aynsjey Hamilton, pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing a pair of sandals valued at 355. Senior-Detective-Sergeant G. C. Urquhart said that the sandals were part of the cargo of the Bristol Freighter which crashed at the Russley golf links on November 21. Hamilton was convicted and fined £lO. Suppression of his name was refused. Senior - Detective - Sergeant Urquhart said that several hundred pairs of sandals from the cargo of the aircraft had been taken to C shed at the Railway vards for sorting. Hamilton, when he was walking through the shed Saw a pair lying a small distance from the rest. He picked them up. put them under his shirt, and walked away. Mr L. G. Holder, who appeared for Hamilton, said that the offence had occurred on the spur of the moment, and was unlikely to happen again. REMANDED Barry Arnold Colenso, aged 20, a floor--moulder. was remanded to December 9 when charged with driving a motor-car in Hereford street on November 30 when under the influence of liquor or drugs. Bail was allowed in the r.um of £25 and one surety of £25 THEFT OF TIE Gavin Edgar William Kinsman aged 28, a truck driver (Mr B. J. Drake), was remanded to December 9 for a probation officer’s report and sentence when hr

pleaded guility to a charge of stealing a tie valued at 8s 9d, the property of Galvins. New Brighton, on November 30. Inspector C. H. Reardon said that at 8.50 p.m. on Saturday accused was seen in Galvin’s shop at New Brighton. When a shop attendant went to the rear of the shop accused was seen to take a tie, which he put in his pocket. After being taken to the oolice station in a motor-car a redcoloured tie was found in the car. Accused had been convicted previously. Mr Drake said although his clie'nt had had previous convictions he appeared to have settled down in a steady job. PROHIBITED IMMIGRANT

Robert Hjorth Madsen, who pleaded guility through an interpreter to charges of being a prohibited immigrant and being absent without leave from the overseas ship Jessie Maerske, was ordered to be detained in custody pending deportation. THEFT OF TIMBER *• A man whose name was suppressed was convicted and discharged on a charge qf stealing three pieces of timber. Mr J. G. Leggat appeared for the man, who pleaded guilty. CHILDREN DIE IN FIRE (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) MONTREAL, December 1. Eight children, whose ages ranged from two months to 12 years, were burned to death early today when a house was destroyed by fire at Sherbrooke, about 100 miles east of Montreal. The father, Mr Lionel Denault. aged 32, ran to a neighbour's house and telephoned for help. He was suffering from burns and cuts. When the firemen arrived it was too late to check the fire, which was fanned by strong winds. The mother and another child, Robert, aged 13, were at church when the fire started. Cartons On Fire In Factory A unit from the Sockburn fire station attended to a fire among some cartons stacked on the premises of the Crown Crystal Glass Company, Shands track, Hornby, at 9.30 a.m. yesterday. The firm’s sprinkler system was operating, and the fire was confined to one section, but about 200 cartons were destroyed. The fire is thought to have been caused by overheating from a boffin rnnvever