MAGISTRATE’S COURT Stole Groceries For Easter Hangi

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31656, 17 April 1968, Page 7

MAGISTRATE’S COURT Stole Groceries For Easter Hangi

Carl Henry Forsyth, aged 25, a lineman, was convicted and remanded in custody to April 23 for sentence by Mr P. L. Molineaux, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court yesterday on five charges of burglary between March 27 and April 13. He pleaded guilty. Senior-Sergeant F. G. Mulcare said a record player, 1 guitar, cigarettes and groceries were stolen in the burglaries from two schools and three shops. Their value had not been ascertained. The defendant admitted to the police that he had raided the shops to get food for a hangi on Easter Day night. He was accompanied by other persons who had been attending a party. $7O FINE Charles Irwin Mains, aged 41, a freezing worker, was fined $7O and disqualified from driving for three years when he pleaded guilty to driving under the influence of drink or drugs in Woodham Road on April 11. , Mains said he had a heavy cold and had consumed too much rum and raspberry. THEFT , A man who while working , on clearing the Christchurch i Technical Institute after a ' fire there, noticed a tape re- i corder and took it home for ; closer inspection, pleaded , guilty to a charge of theft, i The man, Charles Edward Williamson, aged 54, an electrician, pleaded guilty to stealing the tape recorder and ' was fined $6O. He said it was a foolish 1 thing to do and that he only ' wanted to inspect the ! machine. 1 ASSAULT An unemployed youth who dragged another youth off a motor cycle in Seaview Road on April 15 was remanded to April 23 for sentence when he pleaded guilty to a charge of assault. The accused, Kevin David Gardener, aged 17, said he thought the other youth had said something about the rough state of his clothes. SUSPENDED SENTENCE ( David Wayne Butler, aged i 20, a scaffold rigger, Andrew * Joseph Neame, aged 20, an ] apprentice printer, and Eddie Zielingki, aged 18, a laundry i assistant, were convicted and ] ordered to come up for sen- ’ tence within six months if called upon on a charge of being found without lawful ex- J cuse in the Princess Marg- i

aret Hospital on April 14. They pleaded guilty. Senior Sergeant Mulcare said an orderly found the defendants in the hospital at ’ 12.45 a.m. They said they had come to visit a female patient. . They were slightly under the influence of liquor. NAME SUPPRESSED A man, whose name was . suppressed, was convicted and I remanded In custody to April I 23 for sentence on a charge of assaulting his father on > April 14. He pleaded guilty. I Senior Sergeant Mulcare i said the defendant had an ar- . gument with his father about . 2 a.m. He grabbed his father : by the throat and threatened him with a carving knife until his mother intervened. DISQUALIFIED Dianna Kathleen Rolton, aged 17, unemployed, was fined $3O and disqualified from driving for a further six months when she pleaded guilty to driving while disqualified in Hereford Street on November 19, 1967. FINED $8 On a charge of failing to notify the deputy registrar of motor vehicles of the destruction of a motor vehicle at Waiau on or about October 2, Garry David Cockburn, aged 25, unemployed, was convicted and fined $B. He pleaded guilty. FINED $6 John Murray Turpin was convicted and fined $6 on a charge of failing to notify the deputy registrar of motor vehicles of the sale of a motor vehicle at Hornby on July 16. He pleaded guilty.