Magistrate’s Court

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30367, 17 February 1964, Page 13

Magistrate’s Court

SATURDAY (Before Messrs T. W. Smith and B. S. H. Ward, Justices of the Peace) ( FINED £lO Sydney Sullivan, aged 36, a bushman, was fined £lO on a charge of being unlawfully in an enclosed yard. He pleaded guilty. Sullivan said that because of “all the talk about sharks" he decided against going to New Brighton for a swim on Friday night and "hopped over” an Bft fence into the Centennial Pool OBSCENE LANGUAGE John Charles Laird, aged 23, a boilermaker, was fined £lO on a charge of using obscene language. He pleaded guilty. The police said the offence was committed when he was refused admission to a dance. OBSTRUCTION Three youths, who refused to move when spoken to by a constable in Cathedral square on Friday night, pleaded guilty to obstructing the carriageway. Trevor Michael Pike, aged 17, a labourer, was fined £5; Tony Perreau, aged 17 a workman, was fined £7 10s; and Glen Murray Herbert, aged 17, a farm labourer, was fined £2. FIGHTING Roderique John Arthur MacKenzie, aged 25, a shopkeeper, and Chanel Edwin Morel, aged 20, a bushman, were fined £3 each on a charge of fighting and £lO each on a charge of wilfully damaging a door, valued at £7 6s, Each was ordered to make restitution of £3 13s. The charges arose out of a fight in a cafe early on Saturday when Morel pushed MacKenzie through a glass door.

Knock-out Win.—A former British Empire heavy-weight champion, Kitlone Lave, of Tonga, scored a knock-out victory over Ismeli Radrodro of Fiji Islands in the sixth round of a scheduled IS-round contest for the Pacific heavy-weight championship at Singapore on Friday.—(P-A.-Reuter).