MAGISTRATE’S COURT Obstruction Of Constable Brings Suspended Sentence

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31277, 25 January 1967, Page 8

MAGISTRATE’S COURT Obstruction Of Constable Brings Suspended Sentence

“You have a deplorable standard of morals and you have a mixed family of illegitimate children by two different fathers,” said Mr E. A. Lee, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday, when he ordered Florence May Henderson to appear for sentence if called upon in six months. She appeared for sentence on a charge of wilful obstruction of a police constable on January 16. The Magistrate said all he could do was to order her to appear for sentence if called. “In view of the age of your children, it is impossible to send you to prison, but you should go. You have no money to pay a fine and your men walk out on you when the obligation of the children grows,” the Magistrate said.

A constable went to Henderson’s home on January 16, with a warrant of committal to find another person. Henderson said then that she did not know where the other person was, and that he had left Christchurch. She had tried to restrain the constable entering the house, but the wanted person was found in a bedroom. DISHONESTY CHARGES Michael Thomas Mason, a 22-year-old workman, who pleaded guilty to five charges of dishonesty committed in several parts of .New Zealand, including unlawfully taking a motor car, said in explanation for his offences, that he wanted to see the country. He was remanded to January 31 for a probation officer’s report and sentence. He pleaded guilty to charges of burglary in Oamaru, at Mount Cook, and at Papatoetoe, unlawfully taking a car at Mount Cook, and theft at Onehunga.

He also pleaded guilty to two charges of possessing an unregistered rifle and delivering an unregistered rifle to a person who could not lawfully possess it. He pleaded not guilty to a Charge of theft of a transistor radio and £33 in cash, the property of Anne Gottlieb, on October 12, at Te Anau. Detective Sergeant D. Porteous said Mason had registered the rifle twice while in Hastings, but had then failed to re-register it. He received a summons to appear in the Hastings Magistrate’s Court, but failed to appear. He was arrested in Oamaru after Troons Superette, in Oamaru had been burgled and £9 9s 6d in money and goods had been stolen. He admitted the offence. After further questioning, he also admitted the burglary of a dwelling house in Papatoetoe, on September 26, and taking property worth - £6l. At Onehunga, he stole a driver’s licence, a pair of shoes and cash to a total value of £3 10s between October 24 and October 26. He said he had taken a motor car belonging to Mutual Rentals, Ltd, from outside the Hermitage, Mount Cook, on December 15, and burgled a shop premises at Mount Cook occupied by Mervyn Leslie Burke on December 16. Cash amounting to £35 and cheques were stolen Sergeant Porteous said. Only the cheques were recovered. The car was recovered in good condition. SIX MONTHS’ GAOL An Australian described as a professional Rugby League player, David John Burns, aged 21, was sentenced to a total of six month’s imprisonment when he appeared for sentence on seven charges of false pre-

tences and one charge of theft as a servant, between October 8 and December 9, 1966. Burns, who had elected trial by jury on three of the false pretence charges on January 17, changed his plea to guilty, yesterday. Mr K. M. Hampton, for Burns, said that his client had taken £2O from his employers, Wooff and Salvesen, Ltd, to pay back money to hotels which had accepted valueless cheques. He had intended to repay the money after the week-end by borrowing, and had taken no steps to cover up the theft. However, Burns had got into a fight during the weekend, and suffered a broken jaw which prevented his restitution of the cash. “Within the next few years, Burns hopes to travel to Australia and to England, where he intends playing professional Rugby League. He has played professional Rugby League in Australia. “He is reconciled to a term of imprisonment,” said Mr Hampton. “I’m quite satisfied that you knew there was no money in your account when you issued the cheques,” said the Magistrate, when imposing the sentence. DAMAGED CORD Kenneth Robert Veevers, aged 18, unemployed, was convicted and fined £lO and ordered to make restitution of £1 Is 6d on a charge of wilful damage to a telephone cord, the property of the New Zealand Post Office, on January 16. He pleaded guilty. Detective-Sergeant Porteous said Veevers and a friend had been walking round Cathedral square for some hours on January 16. They went down Colombo street to a telephone box in Sydenham.

Veevers tore the cord from the telephone. He told the police that he wanted to use the cord to start a motor-car. Veevers chose trial by jury on six charges of unlawfully taking six different cars in Christchurch on January 17. ASSAULT “He grabbed me as I walked away, so I turned and hit him,” explained Moa Edwards, aged 23, a truck driver, when he faced a charge of assaulting Hector Walter Malcolm Charles Mcllwraith on January 2, by the Leithfield Beach dance hall.

The Magistrate said he did not believe Edwards’s story, and that it was a completely unjustified and unprovoked assault.

Edwards was convicted and remanded for a probation officer's report and sentence until January 31. POSITION OFFERED

“I don’t know why you get this sudden urge to go to work —you have been out of work for so long,” the Magistrate told Terrence Kumi Hemi, aged 21, a scrub cutter, who was appearing for sentence on a charge of stealing £5 from K. T. Duncan on October 8, 1966, at Gisborne. Hemi had told the Magistrate that if he didn’t go to gaol, “my boss up north tn Blenheim has got a job for me.” The Magistrate said that this was one of a growing series of convictions, and he fined Hemi £l5, in default 19 days’ imprisonment. “If your boss really wants you, he can put the money up,” said the Magistrate. TRAMPLED FLOWERS Paul Vivian Slade, aged 19, a hairdresser, was convicted and remanded until January 31, when he pleaded guilty to a charge of disorderly behaviour in High street on January 24. Detective - Sergeant Porteous said that about 2.15 a.m. Slade was seen in Colombo street shouting at the top of his voice. He ran towards a car in which two of his companions were seated, then entered the small triangle on the Colombo street-High street intersection, and trampled on the flowers. SOLD TV SET Robyn Leonard Hunt, aged 30, a hotel steward, pleaded guilty and was convicted and remanded on bail to January 31 for a probation officer’s report and sentence on a charge of obtaining £45 by falsely representing that a television set which he had partly paid for by hire purchase payment was his. THREE CHARGES “A car approached with lights

full on, swerving all over the road. It seemed to make a straight line for my car. I pulled to the left, although 1 was restricted by parked cars, and felt a slight jolt. The car hit the vehicle following me,” said Donald Christopher Gill, when lan Ross Papps, aged 17, an apprentice fitter, appeared on a charge of driving carelessly on Estuary road on November 5, 1966. Papps (Mr J. S. Wilson) pleaded not guilty. He pleaded not guilty to a further charge of, being a minor, possessing liquor intended for consumption in a public place, on the same date.

On the careless driving charge he was fined £5 and disqualified for 12 months, and was convicted upon payment of costs for possessing liquor. Papps pleaded guilty to driving without a licence and was fined £l.. Mr Wilson said that it was merely a matter of oversight.

TRAFFIC PROSECUTIONS In traffic prosecutions brought by the police, convictions were entered and fines imposed as follows, with Court costs of £1 10s on each charge. Failed to give way to pedestrian when light indicated: Nathan George Frederick Scott, £B.

Failed to give way: Ganda Chhiba, £10; Errol Wayne Pascoe, £7.

Careless use: Leonard Thomas Booth, £lO, disqualified from driving for three months; Michael Redd Fagan, £7 10s, disqualified from driving for six months.

No warrant of fitness: David Ernest Hancox, £4. (Before Mr P. L. Molineaux, S.M.) CHANGED PLEA Maurice Albert Huddleston, aged 19, a farmhand, was remanded on bail to the Kaikoura Magistrate’s Court on January 31 for sentence on a charge of stealing a headlamp valued at £3, the property of H. Wareing and Sons, Ltd., at Amberley, on December 26.

Huddleston, who was represented by Mr M. J. Glue, originally pleaded not guilty to the charge but changed his plea to one of guilty during the hearing.

Evidence was given that Huddleston removed a headlight from a header harvester parked in a yard at Amberley. Sergeant V. F. Townshend, who prosecuted, said Huddles*ton was on probation on a charge of dishonesty. The Magistrate said Huddleston had been convicted of theft in Kaikoura only a month ago.

TRAFFIC CASES In traffic prosecutions brought by the Christchurch City Council traffic department, convictions were entered, and fines imposed, as follows (Court costs of £1 10s additional on each charge): Drove carelessly: Gwillim Kenneth Rutledge, £7. Failed to observe compulsory stop: Walker Amai, £5; Pauline Eleanor Chisholm, £6; Thomas Broughton, £5; William George Downer, £6; Trevor John Gullery, £5; Errol Gilmore Mason, £7; Albert Sidney Rate, £6; Mavis Isabel Turnbull, £4.

Exceeded 30 miles an hour: Charles William Anstis, £4; Ulike Willem Banya, £5; David John Barry, £7; Graham John Bradfield, £3; David George Bradford, £5; Constance Finlayson Bush, £3; Gerold Carson, £4; Loretta Diane Clarke, £3; John Erin Fahey, £4; Bruce Frederick Fisher, £7, and disqualified for three months from January 31; Graham Nissen Hamblyn, £5; Bhika Jeram, £5; Helen Barbara Johnston, £3; 'Garry Raymond Lawrence, £3 (no safety helmet for pillion passenger, costs only); Adrian Jacob Laven, £6; Anthony John Loftus, £4; Raymond Joseph Long £5; Lloyd John McQueen, £3; Lavinia Ethel Mary Mitchell, £3; Paul Edward Morrison. £3; Derek Anthony Parsons, £4; Douglas Pohio, £5; John David Potter, £3; Graham Wayne Ripley, £5; Rang! Mack Tawhai, £5; Johannes Cornelius Fransdscus Toonen, £3; Tangi Williams, £3.

Carrying two passengers on motor-cycle: Keith Greeman Rollitt, £3.

Carried passenger on provisional licence: Russell James Brown, £3. Failed to use pedestrian crossing: Dennis Ivan Dearnley, costs only. Unlicensed motor-vehicle: Roderick Gordon Clark, £3 (no warrant of fitness, costs only); Harold William Hunter, £3.

No driver’s licence: Ivan Stanley Nankivell, £6 (no warrant .of fitness. £2). Inappropriate driver's

licence: Mark George McWhinnie, £6.

No heavy traffic licence: Bernard Ryan, trading as Ryan Bros., £6 (no certificate of fitness. £3).

No warrant of fitness: Wilbur Victor Dawson, £6; James Stephen Neylon, £5; Hermanus WUhelmus Savenije, £7 10s; Robert Edwin Still, £5; Reginald Ronald James Storer, £5; Conrad Thain, £3.

Insufficient lights: Arthur Wayne Doak, £3 (no warrant of fitness, £1); Richard Christen Greager, £3. Insecure load: Roy Keith Ringdahl, £5. Overloading rear axle: Griffin Bros., Ltd., £4. No safety chain: Colin Arthur Campbell, £5: David William Mason, £4; Kevin Barry Tait, £4.

Parking offences: Martin Stuart BuHivant, £1; Gyens Cross. £2; Gregory James Healey, £1; Robyn Leonard Hunt, £2 (two charges); William Henry Hunt, £3; Maurice Damien Hurley, £6; Laurence Edward MacFarlane, £1; Brian Meredith, £1; Nalda Mitchell, £3; Charles Erick Paterson, £3; June Ann Patterson, £1; Leonard Brad Symes, £l.

CIVIL CASES (Before Mr E. S. J. Crutchley, S.M.) JUDGMENT SUMMONSES The following orders were made on judgment summonses: P. Fearon, Clearbrook street, to pay H. S. Thelning £6 8s 3d, in default seven days’ imprisonment, warrant suspended while £1 a week is paid; D. Morris, Ensors road, to pay A. J. White, Ltd., £8 8s 9d (nine days or £1 a week); L. M. Muir, Warden street, to pay H. S. Thelning £4 16s 6d (six days). P. Boby, labourer, Huia street, to pay Glenvale Distributors, Ltd., £l5 5s 6d (17 days or £1 a week); H. V. Marriott, freezing worker, Purbeck place, to pay Ashby Bros., Ltd., £99 (90 days or £1 a week); L. J. H. Reeves, carpenter, Farrington street, to pay New Zealand Carpenters’ Union £l9 10s (21 days or £1 a week).

G. Hayes, timber feller, Wainoni road, to pay C.M.L. Fire and General Insurance Company, Ltd., £72 15s (77 days or £1 a week); F. G. Campbell, pensioner, Brockworth place, to apy G. E. and O. M. Williams £25 Is 6d (28 days or 5s a week); R. G. Mcllwrick, agricultural contractor, Neil street, Hornby, to pay Gibsons Motors (Darfield), Ltd., £37 Is (40 days or £1 a week).

P. G. Karaitlana, workman, Guthries road, to pay New Zealand Insurance Company, Ltd., £7l (75 days or £1 a week); C. L. Dunstan, painter, Wlllryan avenue, to pay R. and E. Tingey and Company, Ltd., £2 15s (four days); R. K. Young, Dacre street, to pay Addington Timber Company, Ltd., £8 12s 8d (10 days or £1 a week). P. S. Thomson, carpenter, Inglis street, to pay National Insurance Company of New Zealand, Ltd., £4 10s (six days); P. Woolhouse, Cobra street, to pay Addington Timber Company, Ltd., £2O 5s 9d (23 days or £1 a week); L. Prisk, cleaner, Wilsons road, to pay Selwyn Casewoods (MeVicar), Ltd., £l4 (16 days or £1 a week). Douglas Robert Ollis, hospital orderly, Baynes street, to pay Bateman Television, Ltd., £ll6 (90 days or £1 a week); Gilbert Alexander Hooper, labourer, Ealing street, to pay Bateman Television, Ltd., £164 4s (90 days or £1 a week); James L. Reeves, carpenter, Farrington avenue, to pay C. J. Dallard £l6 10s (19 days or £1 a week). Malcolm Henry Bottle and Ernest C. Stills, trading as Bottle and Stills, building contractors, Springston, No. 4 R.D., to pay Upright Scaffold, Ltd., £B2 (86 days or 10s a week), and Sockburn Shingle Supplies, Ltd., £2O 19s 5d (24 days or 10s a week). I. E. Kerr, metal worker. Aidershot street, to pay New Brighton Florist £2 0s 6d (three days); M. Tierney, labourer, Liverton crescent, to pay Maddens and Richards, Ltd., £4 6s 5d (five days); R. Sinclair, painter, Godley avenue, to pay Reid’s Pharmacy £9 18s (10 days or £1 a week).

L. Geddis, labourer, Hampshire street, to pay O. M. Williams and Sons £5 (six days); Brian James Quinn, mechanic, Ryan street, to pay Bateman Television, Ltd., £147 4s (90 days or £1 a week); Ronald Gordon Mcllwrick, labourer, Neil street, to pay N. S. Spiers, Ltd., £l9 6s 4d (21 days or £1 a week). Ronald Brian Watkins, labourer, Station road, to pay Alexander McLeod MacDonald £63 (67 days or £1 a week); Richard Patrick, fitter, Blake street, to pay Hay’s, Ltd., £33 18s 6d (37 days or £1 a week); Thomas V. Skilling, snr., labourer, Godley avenue, to pay Agnews Garage £2B 7s lOd (31 days or 5s a week).

Alexander Forbes, workman, Buchanans road, to pay Paparua County Council £4l 12s 5d (45 days or £1 10s a week); J. F. McDonnell, worker, Chester street, to pay Minsons, Ltd., £22 3s (25 days or £2 a week); J. C. Kinzett, bus driver, Wilsons road, to pay Peter Annan £3 5s (four days).