Four Found Guilty On Charges From Ky Visit

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31323, 20 March 1967, Page 3

Four Found Guilty On Charges From Ky Visit

(New Zealand Press Association)

AUCKLAND, March 19. Charges were found to have been proved against four of the five who appeared before Mr C. H. Pledger, S.M., on Friday after incidents during Air Vice-Marshal Ky’s visit

to Auckland on January 24 and 25.

Peter William Mawhinney, aged 18, student and assistant post office technician, and Jennifer Margaret Parkinson, aged 18, folk singer and student, were found guilty of wilfully obstructing a constable.

The Magistrate said he accepted that their actions resulted from a genuine belief that what they were doing was legal. He adjourned cases against them for two months with a view to discharge on payment of £l2 10s costs. Ronald Bevan Judd, aged 21, school teacher, was remanded until March 23 for a probation report and sentence. The Court found the case against Judd had been proved. Judd had pleaded not guilty to a charge of behaving in a disorderly manner at Auckland airport A conviction was not entered. The Magistrate said Henry George Fischer, aged 48, engineer, charged with careless driving, had not deliberately bumped into a sergeant’s leg twice, according to evidence presented. He added that the bumping was the result of careless driving of a minor nature, found him guilty, and discharged him. He remanded Stanley Hooper Hieatt, aged 53, railway worker, until Monday.

Garden Cup.—-Mr and Mrs W. F. Moore, of 147 Kendal avenue, won the Christchurch Beautifying Association’s Fitzroy Cup for the best garden in a street with underground reticulation. The runner-up was Mr E. W. Ruske, of 7 Merle place, Somerfield.