MAGISTRATE’S CORT Youth Fined $80 For Molesting Girls In Cathedral Square

Press, Volume CX, Issue 32385, 26 August 1970, Page 7

MAGISTRATE’S CORT Youth Fined $80 For Molesting Girls In Cathedral Square

“You are liable to a penalty of $3OO and imprisonment of three months on a charge of this nature,” Mr K. H. J. Headifen, S.M., said in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday when imposing an $BO fine on a youth who was on probation and had behaved in, a disorderly manner. Kerry Reriti, aged 18, a' forestry worker, had been seen making advances to a teenage girl in Cathedral Square, said Sergeant W. W. Maloney. At 9.10 p.m. he was seen with another group M people making a nuisance of himself. Five minutes later he was seen molesting another girl in the bus shelter.

The defendant told the police that he knew two of the girls. “Girls have the right to go into Cathedral Square unmolested by you or anyone else,” said the Magistrate. “I will make this expensive,” he added before imposing the fine.

CARELESS USE A man who drove his car into an oncoming car while turning right on the Main South Road at Rolleston on May 5. causing injury to both the occupants of the other car and to himself, was convicted and fined $5O and disqualified from driving for two years when he appeared on a charge of careless use of a car, causing bodily injury. Donald Farrar, aged 26, a soldier (Mr P. H. T. Alpers), pleaded guilty to the charge. Sergeant Maloney said that as a result of the accident the two persons in the other car suffered injuries which required hospital treatment. Farrar suffered a fractured neck and lacerations to other parts of his body. Both cars were extensively damaged. Th* Magistrate said that the charge was a serious one, but he would take into account the fact that Farrar had suffered injury himself. FINED FOR “PRANK’ Two youths who stole a lifebuoy at Lyttelton on August 24 as a prank, were each fined $5 when they appeared on a joint charge of theft. Brian Conway, aged 19, a seaman, and Garry John Jones, aged 19. a seaman, pleaded guilty to the charge of theft nf a lifebuoy valued at $2O, the property of the Crusader Shipping Company. Ltd. Sergeant Maloney said that the youths were seen to take' the lifebuoy from a ship about 8.25 p.m. on August 24. The police were informed and the youths were later found with the stolen property. Conway was wearing the lifebuoy round his neck. Both youths had been drinking and had taken the lifebuoy as a prank, he said. ARMS OFFENCE David Elsey. aged 22, a de•molition contractor, was fined sio for delivering a .393 calibre rifle to a person not entitled to it. He had given the rifle as part; payment for a motor car in! Dunedin between April 4 and April 30. He had not obtained, a permit for the rifle, said Ser-; geant Maloney. The defendant pleaded guilty' and said that he had tried to obtain a permit at Dunedin. STOLE FOOD Hector Francis Styles, aged 69. a gardener, was convicted and fined $36 after he had pleaded l guilty to a charge of theft of a packet of butter and a packet of bacon worth a total of 65c | from the Self Help Co-op.. Ltd, 422 Colombo Street, on August 24. Sergeant Maloney said that; about 3 p.m- on August 24. Styles selected some’items from' the shop but at the check-out counter he paid for one packet of bacon only. He was stopped outside the shop and the other goods were found in his bag. He admitted the theft, but could give ;no reason for it. OBSCENE LANGUAGE For using obscene language in the foyer of the Central Police Station on Monday evening, Christopher Norman Lysaght, aged 18. a process worker, was fined $25. Sergeant Maloney said Lysaght had gone to the station to inquire about a friend who was being spoken to by the police. He used the language when asked to wait. MISCELLANEOUS OFFENCES Tn miscellaneous prosecutions convictions were entered and fines imposed as follows, with costs of $5 in each case: Purchased liquor while under age; Francis James Arona. $l5; Peter James Simpson. $8 Careless use: Frans Emiel Wenniger. $3O Failed to give way. Peter John Nicholson. $l5: Allan Phillip Adamson. $l5. disqualified for three months; William Samuels. $2O Unable to stop in half clear distance: Neville Walter Clark,; • Before Mr W F. Brown, S.M ) PROBATION Does she realise she is on the brink of borstal? " asked the Magistrate of counsel (Mr c a. McVeigh) when Pamela; Elizabeth Cook, aged 17, unem-

| ployed, appeared for sentence on a charge of unlawfully getting into a car. “Yes, I put this to her yesterday,” Mr McVeigh replied. “She wks hoping to go to the North Island and get work there as she wants to work independently of her parents and Christchurch.” Sentencing the defendant to i probation for one year the Magistrate said that she had been [in and out of trouble over a period of years and was five years of age when her parents separated. She had lived in an orphanage and with one parent and then another and was unable to get on together with her mother and stfp-father, the Magistrate said (Before Mr E S. J. Crutchley S.M.) MISCELLANEOUS CASES When apprehended by rangers a group of men who had been gaffing trout in the Seiwyn River had run away and • crashed through an electric fence, breaking the strand, said Mr D. M. Palmer, appearing for the North Canterbury Acclimatisation Society Steve Oneroa, charged with having gaffed three trout in protected waters, pleaded guilty and was fined 915.

Mr Palmer said that the rangers had heard three men poking about in the river. When told to reveal themselves the men had run away and when told to “stop in the name of the law” they had run even faster. The rangers had found three gaffs, eight trout and a garden fork in Oneroa’s posession.

Oneroa’s counsel, Mr J. M. Wilson, said that the defendant and his friends were all Maoris who came from Turangi and > did not appreciate the differi ent position for fishermen in Canterbury. They had gone to the Selwyn River to gaff eels but became carried awav when they saw the trout.

In other miscellaneous charges brought by local bodies

and Government departments convictions were entered and fines imposed with Court costs $5 and solicitors’ fees 96.50 in each case. Failed to furnish returns of income; Ronald Haigh Kirk, $2O; James Fahey, $4: Gordon Leslie Louttit, $4; William James Meharg, $4. Failed to close shop on Sunday.—Brian Francis Corner, $6; Jacob Jochems, David Gerald Gaynor, $6.

CIVIL CASES JUDGMENT SUMMONSES

Orders bn judgment summonses were made as follows:

D. Brown. Wingate Street, to pay J. A. Barlass $2l, in default 13 days imprisonment, warrant suspended as Iqng as defendant pays $2 a week. J. Bourgeois,, widow. Wellington Street, to pay Sedley Wells, Ltd, $89.72 (50c or 47 days): Leonard E. Buckland, glass worker, Ferry Road, to pay Izard and Loughnan $4l ($2 or 24 days); D. T. Cameron, workman, Kilmore Street, to pay T. J. and F. Flood, Ltd, $15.86 ($2 or nine days); R. Croat, wdrkman, Dunarvan Street, to pay McKay’s Hire Service, Ltd, $l6 ($2 or nine days); G. G. Culliford, workman, Teddington, to pay Wynn Williams and Company $22.50 ($2 or 13 days); Alex Forbes, driver, Buchanans Road, to pay R. G. Galway $B4 ($2 or 45 days); M. Harper, labourer. Clare Road, to pay Andrew Rafferty, Ltd, $12.50 ($2 or seven days). lan Harris, coal merchant. Kairaki Beach, to pay F. W. Larcombe, Ltd, $67 ($2 or 37 days): T. W. Henderson, workman, St Johns Road, to pay McKay s Hire Service, Ltd, $7.50 (or fire days); P. C. Jago, housewife, Momorangi Crescent, to pay L. W. Clarke $44 (50 cents or 25 days); Malcolm Thomas Jackson, contractor. Gainford Street, to pay Inland Revenue Department $120.73 ($1 or 64 days); G. A. Larson, workman, Ferry Road, to pay E. M. Kenyon $474.25 ($2 or three months); R. P. Millar, workman, Glentunnel,

to pay Pyne, Guild. Guinness Ltd 187.10 (»2 or 47 day«): Norman Clive Lynn, machine operator, Buchanans Road, to pay P. C. St Q. Robins 357 (32 or 32 days). Kenneth Peter McCann, factory worker, Harakeke Street, to pay Dominion Television Services, Ltd. 1189.25 (32 or 90 days); Barry p. O'Connor, retired, Avalon Street, to nay Stan Wheatley, Ltd. 328.42 (32 or 15 days); A. J. Parker, workman, Rollin Street, to pay N.Z. Farmers' Co-operative Association. Ltd, 321.84 (32 or ,13 days); Terence Patrick Regan, fire brigadesman, Palmside Street, to pay Weston, Ward and Lascelles 387 ($1 or 37 days); B. K. Seiwood, Amur! Street, to pay Weston. . Ward and Lascelles 328 (32 or 16 days); Alfred W. Symonds, labourer. Diamond Harbour, to pay N.Z. Newspapers, Ltd, 8396.45 (32 or 90 days): D. Thompson. traveller. Christchurch. to pay Auckland Motor Company. Ltd, 8108.30 (31 or 58 days).