IMPERSONATED POLICEMAN

Press, Volume C, Issue 29637, 6 October 1961, Page 20

IMPERSONATED POLICEMAN

Youth Given Probation

Keith Graham Barnard, aged 20, a salesman, of Lower Hutt, admitted impersonating a police officer and supplying false information when renting a car, when he appeared in the Magistrate’s Court at Lyttelton on Wednesday. Barnard, according to the police, endeavoured to take a car across in the steamer express from Lyttelton on May 27 last He told a harbour board official that it was his vehicle. When he was refused access to the parking area he said he was a detective

Mr R. A. Heron, of Wellington, for Barnard, said accused came from a good home but his parents .had indulged him in the use of cars. He was “almost fanatical” about cars.

Mr E. A. Lee, S.M., fined Barnard £5 on the charge of supplying false information when hiring a rental car. On the other charge of impersonating a police officer, he was sentenced to 18 months probation. NOXIOUS WEEDS

For failing to clear noxious weeds, Emily Elizabeth Smith and George Allan Smith were convicted and ordered to pay costs and solicitors’ fees. TRAFFIC OFFENCES

No driver's licence: James Chislet, £l. Failing to keep to the left: Clifford Whyte, £5. No warrant of fitness: Gerrit Hendrik Kollier., convicted and ordered to pay costs; Michael John Barrett, convicted and ordered to pay costs. Driving without due care and attention: Cedric Stanley Schroder, £5. No driving licence. £l. LICENSING BREACHES Charged with being unlawfully on licensed premises. Kenneth Raymond Francis Hunt and Alma Florence Hunt were each fined £3. Charged With unlawfully supplying liquor, Reginald Wally Ruff ell was fined £3. INDECENCY CHARGES Gordon Frank Mun ton, aged 43, a trawler deckhand, of Lyttelton, was sentenced to six months' goal on each of three indecency charges, the sentences to be concurrent. He pleaded guilty to one charge of indecent assault on a female and two charges of committing an indecent act with , intent to insult or toffend.

City Expansion.— The Tokyo Metropolitan Government Planning Department said the city'* population was expected to reach 12,410.000 by 1970.—(T01pr0.)