SUPREME COURT

Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32542, 27 February 1971, Page 5

SUPREME COURT

Detention for burglar Stanley Taylor Starkey, aged 30, unemployed (Mr M. J. Glue), was sent to the adult periodic detention centre for six months when he appeared before Mr Justice Macarthur in the Supreme Court yesterday for sentence on a charge of burglary of the shop of Knight’s Butchery, 172 High Street, on October 14. Mr Glue said that periodic detention would be an appropriate sentence, as that was the penalty imposed on Starkey’s co-offender. Stephen Charles Goddard, aged 21, appealed against a sentence of two years imprisonment imposed in the Magistrate’s Court on charges of escaping from lawful custody, unlawfully taking a car, two of theft, and one of burglary. The appeal was dismissed. Mr R. F. Powell appeared for Goddard. An appeal by Kerry Gordon Thom, aged 19, against a sentence of Borstal training imposed in the Nelson Magistrate’s Court on charges of assault and burglary, was also dismissed. Thom, who was not represented by counsel, made submissions in writing. Mr G. K. Panckhurst appeared for the Crown. Company’s appeal allowed An appeal by the Zenith New Homes Centre, Ltd, against the decision of a magistrate upholding the refusal of the Real Estate Institute to renew the licence of the firm was allowed by Mr Justice Macarthur in the Supreme Court yesterday. The institute refused to renew the firm’s licence on the ground that one of the directors was not fully qualified. Mr G. C. P. Beadel, for the appellant, said that the director had passed the examinations and was now jully qualified. The institute had consented to the relicensing of the firm.