Quarry Worker Fined £l0 For Assaulting Woman

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29108, 21 January 1960, Page 14

Quarry Worker Fined £l0 For Assaulting Woman

Pleading guilty before Mi Raymond Ferner. S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court at Lyttelton yesterday to having assaulted Kaituna May Brown at Diamond Harbour, George Shaw, quarry worker, ’Mr A Hearn) was convicted and fined £lO. Senior-Sergeant D. G M. Simpson said Mrs Brown was employed at a store at Diamond Harbour On the afternoon of December 31, Shaw, who had been drinking, entered the store and spoke to her. Mrs Brown did not catch his remarks and said “1 beg your pardon.” Shaw then went behind the counter and struck Mrs Brown in the eye. Submitting that 1‘ was a case for a fine, rather than imprisonment, Mr Hearn said Shaw was in steady employment. Shaw had been drinking and harboured a grievance against Mrs Brown because she had reprimanded his children.

It was an unprovoked assault, said the Magistrate, and it was only the fact that Shaw had not previously been in trouble that saved him from imprisonment He ordered that half of the amount of the fine should go to the complainant. William Henry Daniels, licensee of the British Hotel, who pleaded guilty to selling liquor after hours, was convicted and fined £B. Alma Linda Daniels, his wife, pleaded guilty to a charge of, being a person other than the licensee, she did sell liquor after hours A fine of £3 was imposed For being on the premises of the Royal Hotel after hours, Peter MacLeod was fined £3 Traffic cases were dealt with as follows: Failing to give way to the right, Leonard James Rex Benny, fined £4. No warrant of fitness, Raymond Joseph Evans, fined £1; Francis J. F. Van der Veen, fined £l.