FIVE MEN CHARGED

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30588, 3 November 1964, Page 18

FIVE MEN CHARGED

Disturbance At Hotel fxV.Z. Press .Association’ AUCKLAND, Nov. 2. Incidents at the Glen Innes Hotel on Saturday resulted in five men appearing in the Magistrate’s Court today on various charges. Sergeant L. Woodgate said that as a result of an assault a police constable received a split lip and had two teeth displaced. Michael John Dean, aged 27. workman, who pleaded guilty to a charge of assaulting a constable, was convicted by Mr A. A. Coates. S.M.. and remanded to November 9 for sentence. On charges of obstructing the police, Colin Andrew Trevor Ardern. aged 21, busdriver. and Magan Gulab, aged 59, stoker, were each convicted and fined £l5. For fighting in a public place Mervyn Albert Dalton, aged 54, maintenance engineer, was convicted and fined £lO. On a similar charge Garry Calvin Bates, aged 20, factory-hand, pleaded not guilty and was remanded to November 9. The police were called to the Glen Innes Hotel at 6 p.m. after a fight had occurred in the garden bar. Dean was escorted from the hotel as it was considered a further breach of the peace would occur if he remained. Outside, Dean punched a constable in the face without warning.

The Magistrate told Dean: “A man who hits a constable while he has already got his hands full deserves prison and I would send you there except for your injuries.”