ILLEGAL WEAPONS IN POSSESSION
Two Men Plead Guilty
(New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND, June 27. Two men found carrying a knife and a sharpened hammer in Ponsonby road, Auckland, early on Saturday morning, appeared before Mr J. W. Kealy, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court later and admitted being in possession of unlawful weapons. They were David Palalagi Koria, aged 24, and Charlie Kelomu. aged 26, both workmen. They were remanded until Thursday for sentence.
The prosecutor (Mr H. W. Austin) said that Koria called at the Newton Police Station about midnight, intoxicated, wanting the police to seize beer from a party in Rose road from which he had been thrown out.
He was told to sober up and come back. About 2.10 a.m. a constable saw him and Kelemu walking in the direction of Rose road.
Stopped and questioned, they said thev were going to kill somebody. They were “in a very nasty mood” at the oolice station. Koria carried a knife and Kelemu the sharpened hammer. Thev said: “We’re going to fix him up ourselves.” Koria told the Court they were going to scare a man so that he would give them back their property.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28619, 23 June 1958, Page 15
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