MAGISTRATE’S COURT Two Months’ Gaol For False Declaration

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30715, 2 April 1965, Page 10

MAGISTRATE’S COURT Two Months’ Gaol For False Declaration

Two months’ imprisonment was imposed on William Dalziel Keith, aged 65, a workman (Mr R. L. Kerr), when he appeared for sentence before Mr K. H. J. Headifen, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday for making a false declaration under the War Pensions Act and obtaining £375 10s 2d by a false pretence from the Social Security Department between November 20, 1963, and November 21, 1964. Mr Kerr said that the accused had been in no trouble involving dishonesty since 1931. He suggested a term of probation during which the accused could make restitution.

The Magistrate said that the whole social security system depended on the honesty of those who made declarations. The Court had a public duty to impose a penalty which would deter others.

"I am not prepared to consider any other punishment but imprisonment for making a false declaration under the Social Security Act or War Pensions Act. Were it not for your war record the penalty would be heavier,” the Magistrate said. INDECENT ASSAULT Frederick Arthur Rumble, aged 59, a dealer <Mr B. J. Drake), was sentenced to six months' imprisonment for indecent assault on a boy aged 12 on March 12. PROBATION Rou Arohoa Ngarangione, aged 18, an apprentice boilermaker (Mr J. N. Matson), was placed on probation for one year when he appeared for sentence on two charges of theft on March 7 Involving a radio and purse of a total value of £lO 10s. He was ordered to pay £5 towards the cost of the prosecution, make restitution of 10s, and take out a prohibition order for the period of proba lion. On a charge of assault on March 13 he was ordered to pav costs. THEFT Peter Maxwell Reynish, aged 24, a driver (Mr G. T. Mahon), was placed on probation for one year and ordered to make restitution of £23 when he appeared for sentence for theft of car parts valued at £45 Is lid on January 9. FINED £5 Edward Brand, aged 33, a bushman (Mr J. R, Milligan), was convicted and fined £5 on a charge of attempted unlawful taking of a motor-cycle at Lyttelton on March 18. He pleaded not guilty.

FACTORY BREACHES Boyce and Congreve, Ltd. (Mr •I. G. Leggat), was convicted and fined £lO on a charge brought by the inspector of Factories of failing to fence a power press securely. On a charge of employing a boy aged 15 without a certificate of fitness the company was fined £5. The company pleaded guilty to both charges. FOOD HYGIENE Herbert Edward Stevenson (Mr P. G. S. Penlington) was convicted and lined £2 on a charge of smoking while engaged In the sale of food. He pleaded not guilty. The prosecution was brought by the Christchurch City Council (Mr G. R. Lascelles). NO RADIO LICENCE On a charge of having no radio licence E. M. Robinson was fined £3. TUNNEL OFFENCES In prosecutions brought by the Christchurch-Lyttelton Road Tunnel Authority, convictions were entered and fines imposed as follows: Exceeded 30 miles an hour: Lloyd David Bertie, £5; Graeme Bruce Thomson, £5. Overtook in tunnel: Ronald Stewart Armstrong, £6; Thomas William McLea, £4. Careless use: Russell Arthur Hawkins, £B. (Before Mr E. A. Lee, S.M.) BURGLARY Roy James Whelch, aged 35, a driver, who pleaded guilty to a charge of burglary, was remanded on bail to April 8 for sentence.

Sergeant V. F. Townshend said that at 1.30 a.m. on March 26 a police patrol saw a car in a yard in Durham street, with Whelch at the wheel. The accused said he was waiting for a friend, who had gone for a run. A man returned to the car in bare feet, with his socks In his pockets. Police dogs followed a trail from the car to the premises of Beath and Company, Ltd., where it was found that a window had been broken on the first floor and entry gained. The front door was slightly open, as it someone had just left.

Whelch admitted that he was waiting for hi® friend, who had gone to break into the building to steal radios. Whelch was employed by the firm at the time as a van driver. He had previous convictions.

YOUTHS' OFFENCES Bruce Edgar Chaston, aged 17, unemployed, was remanded on bail to April 8 for sentence on five charges. He pleaded guilty. Chaston admitted breaking and entering the Cray Pot Cafe, owned by William Jack Mailer, at Kaikoura: breaking and entering the premises of Isla Benseman at Inangahua Junction; theft of six gallons of petrol, the property of John O'Connor, at Westport; theft of a paar of trousers, valued at £6, the property of David Lyons at Kaikoura; and the wilful damage of a Ministry of Works hut to the value of £5 at Kaikoura.

George Ramond Burnett Newman, aged 17, a workman, was remanded in custody to April 8 for sentence on four charges. An order was made that he be kept apart from other prisoners. He pleaded guilty. Newman admitted breaking and entering the Cray Pot Cafe at Kaikoura, and the premises of l®la Benseman at Inangahua Junction; theft of an ignition coil, valued at £1 15s 6d, the property of Winifred McClintock, at Kaikoura: and theft of six gallon® of petrol, the property of John O'Connor, at Westport.

Sergeant Townshend said that Newman threw the ignition coil into a river and broke 18 records he had stolen and threw them on the road.

Noel Patrick Francis William Simpson, aged 20, unemployed, pleaded guilty to a charge of breaking and entering the Cray Pot Cafe in Kaikoura. He was

remanded In custody to April 8 for sentence. _ . . Simpson had admitted breaking a window in the premises and stealing cigarettes, chocolate, and money, valued at £lB 16s ®d, Sergeant Townshend said.

BROKE INTO SCHOOL Trevor David Smith, aged 19, a machine operator, was remanded on bail to April 8 for sentence on a char * e ° f breaking and entering the canteen of the Riccarton High School on March 3. He pleaded guilty.

SERIES OF OFFENCES Michael McDonald Allan, aged 17. a storeman. was remanded in custody to April 8 a,t ®® jj® had pleaded guilty to se Y®" charges. An order was made that he be kept apart from other prisoners. Allan admitted theft of wheel assemblies, valued at £9 and £8 10s; failing to stop after an accident; driving at a speed which might have been dangerous: theft of a watch, valued at £5 12s 6d. the property of Darryl Moodv; unlawfully taking a car, the property of Cyril Pengelly; and having no driver's Hcen®®-, Sergeant Townshend said that Allan and another person found a car with the keys in the ignition and went to Lyttelton in it and returned Jo a dance in Christchurch. The car hit another vehicle on a bend near Shag Rock, but Allan did not stop. When Allan was arrested he was wearing a watch which had another person's name on it. Restitution of £lO was required. FORGERY AND THEFT Wendv Patricia Wanhalla, aged 24. a housewife, pleaded guilty to charges of stealing and forging a Social Security Department warrant, valued at £1 10s. She was remanded on ball to April 8 for sentence. Sergeant Townshend said the warrant was posted to an address in Carlyle street. The tenancy of the house had been taken over by the accused, and she forged the signature on the warrant and cashed It. SHOPLIFTING Two women, whose names were suppressed, pleaded guilty to charges of stealing meat valued at £1 is 6d and Ils lid from the Sydenham branch of Woolworths (New Zealand). Ltd They were remanded on bail to April 8 for sentence. Sergeant Townshend said that one woman had £3O In her possession and the other £lO.

DRUNKENNESS James Conlon, aged 25, a workman, was fined £2 for drunkenness on March 29, having been convicted of the same offence within the previous six months.

REMANDED Alfred Michael Bryan, aged 43, was remanded on ball to April 8 on a charge of breaking and entering the office of the Central Hotel.

Clsude Thomas Straight, aged 43 a butcher, was remanded on bail to April S on a charge of driving under tho Influence of drink or drugs in Stanmore road on March 6. John Graham King, aged 20. a truck driver, and lan Nelson Benbow, aged 18. a baker, were remanded on ball to April 8 on three joint charges of burglary and one of attempted burglary. John Evans, aged 30, a painter, was remanded on bail to April 8 on a charge of being found unlawfully on premises In Gloucester street on March 20. Leonard Holt, aged 33, a company manager, and Joseph Claude Russell Papesch, a musician, were remanded on ball to April 8 on a joint charge of threatening to kill on March 28. Holt's ball was set at £3OO. with two sureties of £5OO. and he was ordered to report twice a day. Barry John Stoop, aged 25. a workman, was remanded on bail to April 8 on a charge of break ing and entering the warehouse of Beath and Company, Ltd., on March 26. Kenneth Donovan Hayward, aged 41, a driver, was remanded on ball to April 8 on a charge of stealing a car steering-box. valued at £4. the property of Bruce Waldron. Eric Ramsay Dacombe, aged 41 a worker, was remanded under the Mental Health Act to April 29 on a charge of assault, ing a girl aged eight on March

19. Derek Harold Kernahan, aged 40, a public accountant, was remanded to April 15 on a charge of stealing £43,856 2s lOd the property of W. G. Evans and Company, Ltd. Bail was renewed.

David John O'Brien, aged IS. a workman, was remanded on ball to April 8 on a charge of breaking and entering the Riccarton High School. (Before Mr H. J. Evans. S.M ) ASSAULT It was not a serious assault, but neither was it one that could be excused, said the Magistrate when he convicted Raymond Joffre Gatehouse, aged 48, a wood merchant, on a charge of assaulting Joseph Alfred Drinkwater on January 29. Gatehouse, who pleaded not guilty and defended himself, was convicted and fined £7 10s. and was ordered to pay witnesses’ expenses of £6. Gatehouse said that the charge arose from a near collision with the complainant's car after a stupid manoeuvre by the complainant. CHARGE DISMISSED A charge against Leonard Holt, aged 33, a sales manager (Mr J. W. Dalmer), of assault Ing his de facto wife on March 24 was dismissed. Holt pleaded not guilty. Maureen Holt said In evidence that a statement she made to the police which led to her husband's arrest was incorrect. ASSAULT A man, whose name was auppressed, was convicted and fined £5 on a charge of assault on February 20. Mr B. J. Drake appeared for the accused, who pleaded not guilty.