Seaman Charged With Assault At Lyttelton

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30192, 25 July 1963, Page 16

Seaman Charged With Assault At Lyttelton

Feet, firsts, a chair and an ashtray were used by Robert Patton Green (Mr L. H. Moore), a seaman, aged 38, aboard the Norwegian freighter, Vinni. at Lyttelton, during a dispute with Tore Iversen, a Norwegian galley boy. shortly after 7.30 p.m. on Tuesday, according to evidence given in the Magistrate’s Court at Lyttelton yesterday. Green was charged with assaulting Iversen. He, pleaded not guilty. Iversen said the defendant appeared at the master's cabin door demanding to be paid off when the master was entertaining some friends, including three women. He attempted to shut the door and Greer attacked him. He retaliated and knocked the defendant unconscious. Constable G. G. Clelland told the Court that when he and another constable arrived. Iversen, though angry, was amenable to reason, but Green, who had regained consciousness, w'as aggressive. In addition to hurling a chair at Iversen, which the witness caught in mid-air, the defendant also used an ashtray. Finally he rushed to his room, brandishing a knife and threatening to kill Iversen. He was restrained by the two constables and taken into custody after firs'

having received medical attention for his facial injuries. Mr A. P. Blair. S.M., said the affair reflected little credit on the ship. He remanded Green to Christchurch for a probation officer’s report and sentence, and directed that he have further medical attention. Fined £25 Peter Robert Mitchell, aged 27, a former railway clerk, was fined £25 on a charge of stealing a carton of liquor from a railway truek at Lyttelton on July 4. Mr L. H. Moore, who appeared for the defendant, said that it was unfortunate that his client, who acted on an impulse. should be the one to get caught for a first offence when this sort of thing was prevalent. The defendant had been dismissed from his position as a railway clerk at Lyttelton. Charged With Theft Faye Olive Edith Baines, a married woman, pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing £35 from her employer. She was remanded to Christchurch on August 2 for a probation officer’s report and sentence. Oil in Harbour

Robert Stark, master of the Dunedin Star, was fined £l5 on a charge of allowing oil to escape ih Lyttelton Harbour on June 19 Mr J. R. Underwood, for the defendant, said the cost to his client of cleaning up the oil amounted to £66 17s 5d Mr C. G. Penlington appeared for the Lyttelton Harbour Board. Firearms Charges Charged with supplying a firearm contrary to the Firearms Act. Alfred Thomas Johnson was fined £2. lan Thomas Johnson, aged 17. was fined 10s on each of two charges of supplying a firearm to a minor and procuring possession of a firearm without a permit. Careless Driving On a charge of careless driving. Anthony Travis Cox, aged 16. was fined £5 and his licence was cancelled for six months. According to Sergeant R. D. Whales, the defendant, who was driving his father's car. said that the car. travelling at 40 miles an hour, failed to negotiate a bend in the road near Rapaki got out of control, travelled on to a grass verge for about 160 feet, crashed through a gorse fence and came to rest in a paddock about 68 feet from the main road. Other Traffic Cases In other traffic charges, fines were imposed as follows: No warrant of fitness: Malcolm Dynes Cockbum. £2; James Chislett. £2 (no driver's licence, £5): Lewis Herewini. £2 (no driver's licence. £5: insufficient lights. £2). A charge against Leslie Raymond Stevenson of failing to yield right of way was dismissed. On a charge of having no warrant of fitness he was fined £1 10s. Maintenance Charge On a charge of a breach of a maintenance order, Richard George Pascoe was sentenced to imprisonment for there months, the warrant to be suspended so long as current maintenance was paid at the rate of £3 a week and arrears of £2Ol paid at 10s a week.