USED BOTTLE AS WEAPON

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31320, 16 March 1967, Page 27

USED BOTTLE AS WEAPON

Ping Witi Collins, a 24-year-old married truck driver, who was charged with assaulting Hugh Prentice, a ship’s steward, with an empty beer bottle in Lyttelton shortly before midnight on February 19, was fined £2O when he appeared before Mr E. A. Lee, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court, Lyttelton, yesterday. The incident was the outcome of a dispute on the tunnel road between the occupants of two Lyttelton-bound cars. The two cars met later outside the British Hotel in Oxford street and fighting followed. Collins was represented by Mr S. G. Erber. ASSAULT John Stanley Hinds, a 19-year-old seaman, who was charged with assaulting a cinema proprietor in Lyttelton, was fined £l5. He pleaded guilty. According to the police, the defendant, who had been drinking, became annoyed when told to behave in the cinema, and then assaulted the proprietor. DRUNKENNESS Kevin George Moore, a watersider, was fined £3 for drunkenness.

OBSCENE LANGUAGE ON PHONE Charged with using obscene language over the telephone at Diamond Harbour on the evening of January 18. Raymond William Scott, a 34-year-old Lyttelton Borough Council employee, was convicted and the case adjourned until June 7 for a review of the penalty. The complainant, Frederick Alfred Gleeson, a storekeeper at Diamond Harbour, told the Court that the defendant owed him money for groceries and had not paid him. He had repeatedly approached the defendant and asked him when he would pay. Because of the defendant’s language and manner, the complainant said that he hung the phone up and informed the police. The defendant was represented by Mr J. R. Milligan. ABANDONED KITTENS Charged with abandoning three kittens at Lyttelton, a 50-year-old waterslder, Thomas Richard O’Neill, was fined £5. Mr R. G. Blunt, who appeared for O’Neill, said that his client was a lover of animals, and but for the fact that he had been drinking would have carried out his original intention of drowning the two-week-old kittens. According to Sergeant G. B. Riach, the defendant had instead placed the kittens in a cardboard box and left them in the middle of the road at Lyttelton, but a taxi driver had seen them and moved them from danger. NO FIREARM PERMIT Keith Graeme McCormick, a 19-year-old seaman, was fined £2 on each of two separate charges of possessing a firearm without a permit. TRAFFIC Exceeding 30 miles an hour: Neil William Ernest Voice, £4. Arnold Donald Taylor was fined £5 for failing to stop at a stop sign. Malcolm Taylor was convicted for riding a power-cycle without a licence. Michael Charles Tasker was fined £2 for having no driver's licence. For permitting the use of an unlicensed vehicle, Robert Thomas Fallen was fined £3 (no warrant of fitness, £3).