Arrests Follow Wild Party At Paremata

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29776, 20 March 1962, Page 5

Arrests Follow Wild Party At Paremata

(New Zealand Press Association)

WELLINGTON, March 19

Youths from a party which got out of control on Saturday night went to t>he Paremata railway station, where they wrecked a public telephone, threw a bicycle under a train, and broke light bulbs with apples from a case which had been smashed open, it was said in the Magistrate’s Court today. Three youths appeared before Mr J. B. Tlioimson. SJM., as a result of a police visit to the station at 145 a.m. yesterday. Pierre van Boxtel, aged 17. a workman, was remanded for a week without entering a plea to a charge of behaving in a disorderly manner. Barry Francis Hunter, aged 21, a refuse collector, pleaded guilty to using obscene language in a public place, and Eric Michael Tofts, aged 17, a rignwniter, pleaded

guilty, to wilfully damaging lights on the Paremata station.

Both were remanded for a week for a probation officer’s report and sentence. Inspector H. J. Squire said that at 11 p.m. on Saturday the police were called to disperse a house party in the Paremata area which had got out of control.

At 12.15 a.m. yesterday the police went to Paremata railway station where a large crowd of you itis had gathered. At that time there was no damage to the station. When, at 1.45 a.m. a northbound electric unit ran over a bicycle which had been thrown on to the tracks, the police again visited the station, to find youths smashing lights and spraying the surroundings with a fire hose. All the youths, and three girls, were put into the waiting room by the police. Hunter then used obscene language.