Magistrate's Court For Trial On Charge Of Stealing Shoes

Press, Volume C, Issue 29624, 21 September 1961, Page 12

Magistrate's Court For Trial On Charge Of Stealing Shoes

When 10 pairs of shoes were found by the police in his flat; David-Graeme Booth, aged 22, a driver (Mr D. J. Hill) said he had met a man in a hotel bar who asked him to look after a carton of “hot stuff,*' said Detective-Con-stable B. L Murray in the Magistrate's Court yesterday. BoaSi was offered a *'cut" if he did. Booth, who pleaded not guilty,' was cdnjmatted for trial at the next session of the Supreme Court on a charge of theft of shoes vgjupd at £35 5s from the New Zealand Railways Department on or about June 9. Depositions were taken before Messrs S. F. Marshall and E. L. Tinker, Justices of the Peace. Among the goods picked up from Duckworth, Turner. Ltd., on Juhe -9 by Alexander William Parks, a driver, for the- New Zealand Express Company, which also employed Booth, were six cartons of shoes consigned to OamarU, said Parks. The goods were taken to the company’s warehouse for sorting according to their destination. Kenneth Boyd McDiarmid. the manager 1 of McDiarmid. Ltd.. Oamaru, said the shoes found in Booth’s flat were of the same type as a consignment of six cartcns he had ordered from Duckworth. Turner, Ltd. James Shivas Yeoman, a railway employee at Oamaru. said one carton was missing when • the consignment arrived on June 12. As far as he knhw the Seals on the waggon had not been broken “T would have been told if thev had been." he said.

Wheel interviewed by telenhone bn Auwst 15. Booth said his first explanation was not correct, said DetectiveSergeant A. W R. Ball. “He said he was the driver who delivered the >stioes from the warehouse to the railway goods shed. He claimed one carton did not go into the waggon so he decided to' take it home.” He said he had intended to return it the next day. said Detective-Sergeant Ball. On being told the records indicated he was not the driver who delivered the shoes, the accused said the records were wrong. Bail Was renewed. Mr Hill reserved his defence. (Before Mr A. P. Blair. S.M.) REHEARING GRANTED An application by Mr M.

G. L. Loughnan for a hearing of a charge against Sydney Harold Bryenton. of maintaining a fence in Springfield road contrary to a decision of the Town and Country Planning Appeal Board, was granted. Bryenton did not appear and was not represented by counsel on September 6 when he was fined £lO on' the charge. The application for rehearing was made in respect of the penalty only. On the rehearing Bryenton was fined £5. UNGUARDED SAW Paramount Builders (Christchurch), Ltd., (Mr G. P. C. Beadel) pleaded guilty to five charges of failing to provide guards and an even working surface on a circular saw, and was fined £5 on each change. Mr Beadel said that the company had had difficulty in maintaining saw’s in the safe condition in which they had been delivered to constructicn sites. Employees frequently removed guards to speed up the operation of a saw. UNREGISTERED DOG For keeping an unregistered dog, Francis Alexander Cross was fined £l. (Before Mr E. S. J. Crutchley, SM.) BREACH OF PROBATION “Unless you make up your mind that you are going to behave you will end up in Borstal.” said the Magistrate

when he fined Shirley Joyce Pimm, aged 17, unemployed, £lO on a charge of breach of probation on August 8.