Magistrate’s Court CONVICTED ON TWO THEFT CHARGES

Press, Volume CV, Issue 30965, 22 January 1966, Page 20

Magistrate’s Court CONVICTED ON TWO THEFT CHARGES

On two charges of theft, Tautuhi Turuarungi, aged 34, a driver, pleaded guilty and was convicted and remanded in custody to January 31 for sentence by Mr E. A. Lee, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday. Turuarungi was charged with theft of three blankets and a bed cover worth £6, and two record players worth £25 from premises at Hamner Springs. Senior Sergeant G. M. Cleary said the accused offered to repair the record players, but he left Hanmer Springs without returning them. He took the bedding with him when he vacated a flat he had been renting in Harvey terrace. Police found the accused at Darfield and he was using the bedding in a bach. TWO WEEKS’ GAOL Fourteen days’ imprisonment was imposed on George Roger Henshaw, aged 50, a workman, when he pleaded guilty to a 1 charge of being found drunk in Cathedral square on January 20. He had five previous convictions for drunkenness within the last six months. John Stewart Kitson, aged 31, a scrub cutter, was imprisoned for 14 days on a charge of being found drunk in Armagh street on January 20. He pleaded guilty. He had seven previous convictions for drunkenness within the last six months. DRIVING UNDER INFLUENCE John Harold Campbell, aged 41, was fined £4O for driving under the influence of drink or drugs and £2 for being an unlicensed driver. He was disqualified from driving for a further three years. FINED £lO Charged with using ob- • scene language tin Cathedral ' square on January 20, Robert Stanley Annear, aged 18, a freezing worker, was convicted and fined £lO. He pleaded guilty. STOLE RADIO Raymond John Stokes, aged 19, a sugar mixer, charged with theft of a radio worth £ll between December 25 and January 13, was convicted and remanded on bail to January 27 for sentence. He pleaded guilty. Senior-Sergeant Cleary said the complainant lent a radio to Stokes’s brother. Stokes took the radio and sold it for £2 10s. REMANDED Maurice John O’Brien, aged 43, an unemployed cook, was remanded in custody to January 27 on a charge of theft of a television set, heater, and iron, worth £174 10s, from a house at 371 Worcester street on December 30. Jack Raymond Stokes, aged 44, a carpenter, charged with assaulting Yvonne Grace O’Malley on January 20, was remanded on bail to January 27. Terrence Leonard Norton, aged 22, a workman, appeared on a charge of breaking and entering on December 20 the premises of Ashby Bergh and Company, Ltd., Mackay street, Greymouth. He was remanded to January 27. Hemi Hoepo, aged 24, unemployed, was remanded for sentence until January 27 on charges of stealing a suit and a pair of shoes valued at £34.

Bail was allowed on condition that Hoepo report daily to the police. Graham John Hill, aged 24, a time clock technician, was remanded until January 31 for sentence on a charge of breaking and entering the Silverstream Hospital at Lower Hutt with intent to commit a crime. He pleaded guilty and was allowed bail.

TRAFFIC CASES In traffic cases brought by the police, convictions were entered and fines Imposed as follows, with costs £1 10s in each case:

Careless use: Janice Eileen Craig, £6; Frank Bishop Woods. £4; James Dennis Orlowski, £6 and ordered to attend a traffic course; John Brian Byrne, costs only (failing to report damage within 48 hours, £5 and disqualified for three months); Roy McGregor, £6; Lawrence Athol Hili, £10; Joyce Isobell Mason. £6; Brian Douglas Trainor, £10; Desmond Myalls, £lO and driver’s licence cancelled for three months (no warrant of fitness. £2): Peter McMillan, £8 (no warrant of fitness £2); Margaret Helen Murie, £5.

Failing to give way: Maurice Everitt Inwood, £6; Thomas Somerville Dunlop, £6; Bruce Graham David Canning. £8; Ivan Ralph Walker, £10; Angeo Lauro Dobran, £8; Wallace James Newman, £5 (failing to report accident, £3; no warrant of fitness, £1); John Hough, £10; Lane Anthony Hunt, £l2 and driver’s licence cancelled for three months; lan Robert Palmer, £7; Duncan Donald McMahon, £B. Failing to stop after accident: Leslie Neil Richards, £l5 (failing to ascertain injury, £3): Stewart James Blakely, £l5 (careless use, £10; falling to ascertain Injury, costs only). No licence: Kevin Peter Riddell, £3: John Walter Brisbane. £5; Kevin Joseph Lawler, £5.

No warrant of fitness: Munici pal Electricity Department, £1; Graham Lester Smith, £3.