Conditional Discharge

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32120, 16 October 1969, Page 10

Conditional Discharge

Roderique John Arthur MacKenzie, aged 30, an investigator (Mr R. L. Kerr),j was granted discharge from bankruptcy in the Supreme Court yesterday by Mr Justice Macarthur, conditional upon his paying $6OO. The Official Assignee (Mr J. B. K. Curran) said no creditors had come forward to oppose the application and he could only deduce that creditors were quite happy about the application. His Honour said the matter had been adjourned several times for further consideration, and after studying reports prepared by an accountant he was satisfied a conditional discharge should be granted. Sentence For Burglary Eighteen months imprisonment was imposed on William John Lewis Hall, aged 27, unemployed (Mr K. N. Hampton), when he was sentenced by Mr Justice Wilson in the Supreme Court yesterday on a charge of burglary. The term was made concurrent with one of six months which Hall is already serving on another charge. Hall, who stood Supreme Court trial last week, had been found guilty of burgling the hairdressers and tabaciconist’s shop of H. M. Madigan, at 560 Colombo Street, on the night of August 18. He was said to have acted ■ as a “look-out” while two J other men broke into the I shop, and to have driven one .1 of them away in a car when • ( police cars approached. Gaim Settled A claim by Michael Sullivan, a rigger and general . hand (Mr R. J. de Goldi), for ( damages for injuries suffered [ on June 17, 1967, against the , Lyttelton Harbour Board (Mr : C. B. Atkinson) was settled out of court. The amount in- ! volved was not disclosed. I A jury which was empanelled on Tuesday to hear ; the case was discharged by ! Mr Justice Macarthur.