Murder Trial Postponed

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31339, 8 April 1967, Page 16

Murder Trial Postponed

The trial in the Supreme Court of an 18-year-old youth, William Arthur John Gilchrist on a charge of murder—arising from an incident at a house in Halswell road on December 28—has been postponed from Monday until April 26. The postponement has been made because of the recent illness of Gilchrist’s counsel, Mr J. G. Leggat. Other criminal trials which will be brought on next week in place of the murder charge will be held before Mr Justice Macarthur in the Provincial Council Chambers.

This is because the Supreme Court room will be occupied' with the hearing of a civil action, to be tried by jury, before Mr Justice Wilson—a claim for £45,000 damages, as a result of an industrial accident, against Pitcaithly’s, Ltd., the Lyttelton Harbour Board, and Kinsey and Company, Ltd.

Injunction Case Adjourned An action in which a Moncks Spur resident, Kelvin Trevor Hardie, a clerk (Mr R. L. Kerr), is seeking an injunction against his neighbours to restrain them from allowing storm water to escape on to his land, was adjourned in the Supreme Court yesterday to a date to be fixed, with evidence for the plaintiff part heard. The defendants in the action, being heard before Mr Justice Macarthur alone, are Laurence Stanley Woods, a grain merchant, and his wife, Lilian Woods (Mr R. F. B. Perry), from whom the plaintiff also seeks £5OO general damages.