Weapons in Mangere
(N.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND i The situation in South■ Auckland regarding offensive! and violent weapons was, “ominous,” said Mr T. G. Maxwell, SJVL, in the Ota-i huhu Magistrate’s Court | He made the comment before convicting Colin Andrew Nathan, aged 18, a machinist, of Mangere, of a charge of carrying an offensive weapon, a Karate nunchaku. Nathan admitted the charge. Sergeant A. W. Paul said that at 12.30 a.m. on Sunday, April 6, Nathan and a group of friends went to the Mangere East primary school where a private function was in progress. They were asked to leave and, when they refused, a scuffle developed between defendant, his associates and the guests. The Magistrate said that over the last few weeks, an “ominous situation where instruments such as this and other more violent weapons” were used, had developed. He ordered the destruction of the nunchaku and fined Nathan $lOO.
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Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33819, 16 April 1975, Page 10
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