MAGISTRATE’S COURT New Car Converted And Badly Damaged

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31187, 11 October 1966, Page 9

MAGISTRATE’S COURT New Car Converted And Badly Damaged

After a man had unlawfully taken a 1966 model car,

’valued at £lOOO, he overl turned it on the Main South road at Bankside the same , day, causing extensive damjage. Sergeant F. G. Mulcare I told Mr E. A. Lee, S.M., in i the Magistrate’s Court yesterday. Edward Peter Low, aged 22, ;an unemployed labourer, was i remanded in custody to October 17 for sentence on a 'charge of unlawfully taking a car, the property of Betty Ruth Williams, on October 7. He pleaded guilty. Sergeant Mulcare said that the police received a complaint that the car had been unlawfully taken from outside 183 Hereford street between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. on October 7. At 3.30 p.m. the same day the police were advised that a car fitting the description of the vehicle had overturned at Bankside and the driver had run off into a nearby plantation. A search was made and Low was found. He had pieces of glass in his hair and he was bleeding from a small cut on the head. Low had said that he was a passenger in the car when it turned over and had not been driving it. Two persons who had seen the accident said that Low was the only person in the car. The car was extensively damaged, but the cost of the damage was not yet known. Low, who was a married man, had previous convictions, said Sergeant Mulcare. UNLAWFUL SWIM Five youths were found swimming in the Centennial Pool, in Armagh street, at about 1.10 a.m. on Sunday, October 9. Sergeant Mulcare told the Magistrate. Five youths and two girls, whose names were suppressed, were discharged without conviction under Section 42 of the Criminal Justice Act, with the condition that they each nay £5 towards the cost of the prosecution, when they nleaded guilty to charges of being found without lawful excuse in the grounds of the Centennial Swimming Pool. Mr J. M. Wilson appeared for the five youths and one of the girls, and Mr W. F, Brown appeared for the other girl. Sergeant Mulcare said that a constable went to the pool about 1.10 a.m. on Sunday, and found five youths swimming in the pool. The two girls were beside the pool. All had been to a ball at the Winter Garden and had consumed liquor there. The youths felt “a bit gay” after leaving the ball, and decided to go for a swim. They climbed over a 6ft fence to get into the pool. There was nothing sinister in the offences, Sergeant Mulcare said. Mr Wilson said that the five youths had spent a night in the cells at the Central Police Station, and they had learnt their lesson. The girls stayed outside the pool at first. When they found that the youths could not hear them because of the splashing, the girls climbed over the fence to speak to them. FOURTEEN DAYS’ GAOL Whakatahi Wariki Katae. aged ,38. a drainiayer’s workman, pleaded guilty to a charge that on October S he assaulted his wife. He was imprisoned for 14 days. Sergeant Mulcare said that at the time of the assault Katae had been drinking but was not

y drunk. He had admitted the . offence to the police.

SEVEN DAYS’ GAOL Henry Tangiwai, aged 21, an unemployed builder’s workman, was sentenced to seven days’ imprisonment on a charge of stealing a driver’s licence, valued at ss, the property of T. Rangitonga, about September 16. He pleaded guilty. Sergeant Mulcare said that on September 1 the police questioned Tangiwai about his mode of living. He gave a false name and gave the police a driver’s licence which did not belong to him. He admitted stealing the licence from a car outside his flat. Tangiwai was remanded to October 17 on charges of breaking and entering the premises of Belfast Garage, Ltd., 713 Main North road, on August 18, and the premises of Taylors Dry Cleaners, Ltd., at 293 Manchester street, on June 29. TWO YEARS’ PROBATION John Edgar Beale Boult, aged 18, a refuse cart workman (Mr J. F. Burn), was admitted to probation for two years with the special condition that he live and work where directed by a probation ofiicer when he appeared for sentence on five charges of burglary. Four of the offences were committed at Waimate in September and one at St. Andrews, also in September. Boult was also ordered to pay £l5 towards the costs of prosecution and restitution of £B5 17s 6d. The restitution is to be paid at not less than £3 weekly. PROHIBITED IMMIGRANT Heinz Pilsak, aged 23, a seaman, pleaded guilty to a charge that on August 3 at Auckland, being a prohibited immigrant, he landed in New Zealand. Mr N. W. Williamson, for the Immigration Department, said that little was known about Pilsak. He had been an assistant engineer in the Blanco but the ship had sailed without him. Later he was found and arrested in Christchurch. He had no permit to remain in New Zealand. Mr I. C. J. Polson said that Pilsak had been near the end of his contract, and was to have been discharged in Canada. An application had been made for Pilsak to immigrate but that could only be considered after Pilsak had been returned to West Germany. Pilsak was convicted, fined £l5 and ordered to pay solicitor’s fees £3 3s. A warrant of distress is to be issued forthwith and Pilsak is to be held subject to the provisions of the Immigration Act. Pilsak was allowed bail till his deportation. NAME SUPPRESSED

An 18-year-old girl was convicted and remanded for a week on three charges of theft. Her name was suppressed. Sergeant Mulcare said that on September 3 the girl had gone with some friends to a wine shop. While the two friends were talking to the assistant the defendant put a bottle of wine in her hand-bag and left the shop. The shop assistant followed the girl and found the wine. Later that day the defendant stole a shirt valued at £1 13s and a card valued at 3s. Mr M. J. Glue appeared for the defendant, who pleaded guilty to the charges. NAMES SUPPRESSED Two youths, whose names were suppressed (Mr W. F. Brown and Mr R. G. Blunt), pleaded guilty to separate charges that on October 2 they unlawfully got Into a truck. Each was remanded on bail till October 17 for a probation officer’s report and sentence. Sergeant Mulcare said the two youths had climbed into an unlocked truck and, using the key. had started the engine. When disturbed by the owner they had turned off the motor and made off. BURGLARY AT RACECOURSE Reginald Joseph Penrose, aged 17, a workman, and Stephen Frederick Henry Reed, aged 17, a grocer’s assistant (Mr R. F. B. Perry) were admitted to probation for 18 months and ordered to pay £lO each towards the cost of prosecution when they appeared for sentence on a joint charge that on July 31 they broke and entered the Riccarton racecourse grandstand. Mr Perry said the offence was more of a youthful escapade which reflected Reed's immaturity than one which showed criminal propensities. The youths had gone to the racecourse on a Sunday to collect totalisator tickets. They noticed a grandstand window was open, climbed through and later left with 20 bottles of beer. HARBOURED ESCAPERS Leonard Kevin Bradley, aged 32, a poultry hand, pleaded guilty to a charge that on September 26 he harboured two girls, escapers from a Child Welfare home. He was convicted and remanded on bail for sentence and a probation officer’s report on October 17. CONVICTED John Reginald Valentine White, aged 29. an unemployed workman, pleaded guilty to charges that on September 29 he stole a cistern and lead pipe of a total value of £l5, the property of Duncan and Amos. Ltd., that on October 1 he unlawfully took a bicycle valued at £4. and that on October 3 he stole a tape valued at Ils 6d, the property of Bruce Ferguson Milner. He was convicted on each charge and remanded till October 17 for a probation officer's report and sentence. ASSAULTED BOY Graeme Albert Holden, aged 18, a dairy farm worker was remanded on bail to October 17 for sentence on a charge of assaulting Craig William Calder, aged 14, on October 7. He pleaded guilty. CHARGE ADJOURNED Charged with assaulting Francis May West, his sister-in-law, on Septqpber 29, Stanley Tre-

vor McLeish, aged 27, a carpenter (Mr D. H. Stringer), pleaded not guilty. After finding the case proved, the Magistrate adjourned it to December 12, when consideration would be given to a discharge without conviction under Section 42 of the Criminal Justice Act. STOLE RUG William Thomas May, aged 20, a forklift driver (Mr M. J. Glue), pleaded guilty to a charge that on October 8 he stole a sheepskin rug, valued at £4, the property of Harry Martin. May was convicted and fined £l2. Sergeant Mulcare said that May, with others, had been drinking at the Woolston Hotel where the sheepskin rug was lying on top of a cigarette machine. May had been told by a companion that he might just as well take the rug as it had been sitting on top of the machine in the bar for some hours. Mr Glue said May’s behaviour had been “silly and weak rather than criminal.” FINED FOR ASSAULT Charged with assaulting his wife on October 7, Trevor Whataiwi Kotara, aged 27, a crane driver (Mr R. G. Blunt), was convicted and fined £2O. He pleaded guilty. STOLE PURSE Colin James Davey, aged 23, a painter, pleaded guilty to a charge that at Oamaru on October 8 he stole a purse and contents of a total value of £6 6s 7d, the property of Maureen Anne McGregor. He was convicted and remanded on bail for a probation officer’s report and sentence on October 17. Sergeant Mulcare said that Davey had taken the purse while telephoning for a taxi after a function at Oamaru. When he would not return the purse his companion had called the police. FINED £l5 On a charge of failing to notify the Army of his change of address under the National Military Service Act. Mac Mutu Kura, aged 25, a labourer, was fined £l5. THREW GLASS John Leslie Boyd, aged 17, a school boy (Mr J. H. M. Dawson), was convicted and fined £5 and disqualified from driving for three months on a charge of throwing glass on a public highway on August 19 on Dallington terrace. He pleaded guilty. DISCHARGED WITHOUT CONVICTION A woman, whose name was suppressed (Mr D. H. Stringer), was discharged without conviction under Section 42 of the Criminal Justice Act when she appeared on a charge of unlawfully being on a ship al Lyttelton on May 27. The case had previously been adjourned for sentence. FINED £3 Ivor Lancaster, manager of the Black Horse Hotel, was fined £3 on a charge of supplying liquor to a minor, John Patrick Ryan, aged 19, on August 11. He pleaded not guilty and was represented by Mr R. G. Blunt. (Before Mr E. S. J. Crutchley.) BORSTAL TRAINING Kenneth Paul Anthony, aged 19, an unemployed foundry worker (Mr J. H. M. Dawson), was sentenced to Borstal training on seven charges of burglary. The offences were committed at Waimate, St. Andrews and Kaikoura between September 11 and 16. Mr Dawson said that the accused had spent a lot of his life in detention. He had no parents. The offences were committed in the company of youths who had appeared before the Court on other occasions. The Magistrate told Anthony that now was the time to choose between living in and out of detention centres or taking his place as a member of society.