MAGISTRATE’S COURT Six months gaol, and deportation urged

Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33065, 4 November 1972, Page 13

MAGISTRATE’S COURT Six months gaol, and deportation urged

An Australian was im prisoned for six months ant recommended for deporta tion when he appeared be fore Mr H. J. Evans, S.M., foi sentence in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday on charge; involving false pretences am fraud. Terrance Leslie Lang, age< ■4l, a factory hand, hat . earlier pleaded guilty to t total of 11 charges. Counsel for Lang, Mr A. W Robinson, made his submissions when the defendant last appeared in court. The Magistrate asked that an assertion by Lang that the offences 1 were committed after a theft t of $5OO in cash from his ; motel be checked, as it would ; have some effect on sen- . tence. ' Mr Robinson said that he [ had not been able to verify . the defendant’s assertion in ! the time available. : “Unhappily, dishonesty at i the expense of other people ; is not new in this man’s life. : It is clear that his 10 weeks in New Zealand was 10 weeks ’ too long,” the Magistrate • said. Lang had a formidable list of convictions in Australia, he said. The Magistrate recommended that Lang be deported at the end of the prison term. He made no order for restitution, but said that those who suffered loss by Lang’s offences were not prevented from gaining compensation in a civil court. SIX BURGLARIES Two young men were remanded in custody to November 13 for sentence after pleading guilty to the burglaries of six business premises in and around Christchurch during September and October. Gregory Charles Lamb, aged 18, unemployed (Mr R. F. B. Perry), and Brian Walter Thomas, aged 19, unemployed, also admitted the theft of a radio and two sheepskin rugs worth $4O. Thomas pleaded guilty to an eighth charge of stealing clothing worth $9Bl from a parked car. The shops entered were the Hi-way Snack Bar; Cusack's West End Store. Ltd, Rangiora; the Sugar and Spice Shop; the Belvedere Dairy; the Halsweli Fish Supply; and the North End Fruit and Dairy shop at Kaiapoi. Three of the burglaries were committed the same night. Property and cash worth $536 were taken. Sergeant R. I. Harlick said cigarettes worth $3O were the only goods recovered. The defendants were approached by the police in Cathedral Square on October 20, after the burglary of Cusack’s store at Rangiora. They admitted that the cigarettes in the car they had been driving were stolen. AU the offences were admitted to the police. FRACAS AT HOSPITAL Gordon Richard James Gavin, aged 19, an assembler (Mr R. F. Powell), was remanded on bail to November 13 for sentence after pleading guilty to charges of behaving in a disorderly manner and assault.

Sergeant Harlick said tha( j Gavin started a fight with s ■* member of a motor-cycle gans - while waiting in the accidem . and emergency branch of Christ t church Hospital on August 12. A friend of the defendant inter S vened and Gavin began fighting „ him. A receptionist whc ’ attempted to separate the twc 1 men was struck in the face by the defendant. She called the , police. j The fight was stopped by a hos--1 pital orderly, who suffered a , broken nose during the fracas, The defendant was not responsible for the orderly’s injury. ASSAULT AT PARTY Kevin James Williams, aged 22, t a railway worker, a member of a motor-cycle gang who gate- ■ crashed a party and struck a . guest over the head with a piece , of wood, pleaded guUty to a ’ charge of assault and was t remanded in custody to Novem- ; ber 9 for sentence. , Sergeant Harlick said that 1 several students had been hold- ■ ing a party in a house in Onslow Street about 10.40 p.m. on November 2 when it was gate- ! crashed by members of a motorl cycle gang. While efforts were . being made to remove them. ' Williams struck one of the guests. Paul Austin Taylor, over r the head with a piece of wood. Mr Taylor suffered a severe • gash which required hospital . treatment and stitches. 1 FINED FOR ROBBERY - Denise Janet Milne, aged 19. a factory hand, was fined $75 when ! sentenced on a charge of robbing a young woman of an engage- • ment ring worth $165 on October ■ 15. She had previously pleaded > guilty and been convicted. The Court had previously been told by Senior-Sergeant F. G. Mulcare that the defendant had become involved in an argument with the complainant as they were leaving a party. During a struggle which followed, the defendant had forced the complainant to remove her engage- ’ ment ring and give it to her. The defendant told the police that she objected to being 1 Insulted by the complainant and demanded the ring after becoming "carried away” in the struggle. The Magistrate said he took into account that the defendant . acted impulsively at the time and returned the ring, with her apologies, the next day. DEPORTATION URGED A recommendation for deportation was made by the Magistrate when Allan Henry Hall, an Australian, aged 25, unemployed (Mr J. L. Woodward), appeared for sentence on six charges of unlawfully taking motor vehicles. Mr Woodward said that the cars had been taken as a means of retreating into a world of fantasy. They had all been used to take Hall to deer-shooting areas. Hall had arrived in New Zealand early this year. Hall was remanded in custody to November 9. pending deportation. BURGLARY OF SCHOOLS Peter David Tula, aged 17, an unemployed workman (Mr M. J. Glue), pleaded guilty to charges of burgling the premises of Xavier College on October 10 and the Waltham School on October 16, and receiving a jacket worth $8 on October 26, knowing it had been dishonestly obtained. Tula was convicted and remanded in custody to November 13 for sentence. Sergeant Harlick said that Tuia entered both schools by way of an unlocked window. Money amounting to $63, a radio, and two cheque books had been taken. SIX CHARGES Danny Clive Young, aged 17, unemployed (Mr J. L. Woodward), was put on probation for one year, fined $l5O, and dis-

t| qualified from driving for nine 11 months when sentenced on three ! charges of theft, two of burg I I lary, and one of converting a ’ • car. - He had previously pleaded ■ guilty to the six charges and : been convicted. i I SHOPLIFTING On a charge of stealing a pair . of socks worth $1.40 from Woolworth’s (N.Z.), Ltd, on September 21. Gerald Dommisse, aged i 39, a fitter and turner (Mr W. H , McMenamin), who pleaded guilty, was convicted and fined! $25. FURTHER REMAND Gerald Donald Urquhart, aged 42, a foundry worker, was further remanded in custody to November 6 when he appeared for sentence on two charges of obtaining goods and money by false pretences. The Magistrate said he wanted time to consider a suggestion by the probation officer that Urquhart be sentenced to an extended term of periodic detention rather than be imprisoned. IDLE AND DISORDERLY Twelve young women and girls, whose ages ranged from 18 to 34, were remanded in custody to November 6 on charges of being idle and disorderly' at Lyttelton yesterday. No pleas were entered. (Before Mr F. G. Paterson, S.M.) FINE OF $l5O Graeme Herbert Milton Claridge. aged 31, a car saleman (Mr D. H. Hicks), was convicted and fined $l5O and disqualified from driving for 18 months from November 17 on a charge of refusing to supply a blood specimen. Claridge changed his plea from not guilty to guilty after the evidence was part-heard. He was ordered to pay witnesses’ expenses of $24.50 and medical expenses of $10.50. INDECENT ACT Leonard William Holdsworth, aged 28, a carpenter (Mr J. E. Butler), was convicted and fined $5O and released on probation for 12 months on two charges of doing an indecent act with intent to insult or offend. He had pleaded not guilty. The names of the complainant and her husband were suppressed. ASSAULT IN HOTEL Wanda Lynette Baker, aged 22, a housewife (Mr M. J. Glue), was convicted and put on probation for 12 months on charges of assault and using obscene language. Baker, who pleaded not guilty to both charges, was ordered to abstain from alcohol. The complainant, William Allan Cameron, assistant manager of the Club Hotel, Sydenham, said that the defendant had been involved in a disturbance in the lounge bar about 10 p.m. on September 21. After he had told the defendant to leave the hotel, she had struck him a severe blow with a partly closed fist, a blow caused knuckle marks on his left temple, he said. The defendant had then begun to use obscene language, and continued to do so after she had left the hotel. In evidence, the' defendant denied both assaulting the complainant and using obscene language.