Dismissal of appeal

Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33816, 12 April 1975, Page 17

Dismissal of appeal

i An appeal by Merle i Rhonda Ireland, aged 20, -unemployed, against a sen- | tence of six months im- : prisonment imposed by Mr I J. D. Kinder, S.M., in the Timaru Magistrate’s Court on ; two charges of burglary’, i was dismissed by Mr Justice ( Roper in the Supreme Court: vesterdav.

; vesteruay. ! Mr M. J. Glue appeared ( for Ireland, and Mr G. K. Panckhurst for the Crown. His Honour said that this i was a rather unusual case. I Ireland and a girl, aged 17, : who had been described as a I simple-minded Maori, had broken into a chemist shop lin Waimate and had carried i off the drug cabinet. It was i a planned burglary and was ! instigated by Ireland, who jhad no previous convictions. A doctor had described | Ireland as an unstable, ag[gressive young woman who I was anti-authority. Since she! : has been in prison her attitude appeared io have! changed, so gaol was doing! ; her some good. The proba-; : tion officer had said that she! should be confined, his' Honour said. ; Golf.—Mrs E. South (Avondale) I [beat Mrs H. James (Waitaka)i 13 and 2, in the final o£ the! (Veterans Challenge Cup flight lat the New Zealand Women’s! i Veterans Golf Tournament at I [Alexandra yesterday. Mrs J. I 'Hoban (Roxburgh) beat Mrs I. D. | I James (Timaru), 5 and 4, in the! , final of the Veterans Challenge 1 Cup. " I Rugby league.—The former Kiwi. R. W. Bailey, succeeded in his appeal to the board of control o£ the Auckland Rugby League against the Ponsonby club’s refusal to grant him a transfer to the Maritime club. Ponsonby has given notice of appeal to the New Zealandcouncil.