The courts Milk bottles milked ‘for baby’

Press, 24 May 1977, Page 4

The courts Milk bottles milked ‘for baby’

; A man who took money [from milk bottles at night did (so in order to get money to [pay for milk for his girlfriend’s baby, Mr F G. Paterson, S.M-, was told in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday. Gary David Fenemor, aged 21, who was charged with stealing milk money to a total of $2.20. was told by' the Magistrate that there was no reason for such a “despicable offence.” “There are some basic (trusts we expect in the comimunity, and putting milk (money out is one of them,” he said. Fenemor was sentenced to 50 hours community work, and released on probation for 12 months. Sergeant Prouting said the defendant and two associates, one of them a woman, had been observed taking monev from milk bottles in Wilsons Road and in Hastings Street about 10 p.m. on May 22. The men had been seen giving the money taken to the woman, i The woman, Kathleen Marjgaret Stringer, aged 19, a solo [mother, told the Court the i money was to pay for milk for her 19-month-old child. ( Stringer, who faced a simillar charge, was convicted, and ordered to come up for sentence if called within 12 months. Th.e third person connected with the offence did not appear. OFFENSIVE WEAPON A youth who produced a knife at Anderson’s Auto Centre — after asking to be taken to Cathedral Square — was placed on probation for

12 months and ordered to do 100 hours community service and forfeit his knifeThe penalty for carrying an offensive weapon had recently been increased, said the MagistrateKevin Clarence Wills, aged 18, pleaded guilty to possessing an offensive weapon in a public place without reasonable excuse. The accused walked into the Auto Centre in Victoria Street and asked a man to take him to the Square. When the man refused, he produced a pocket knife, then ran down the street, said Sergeant R. H. Prouting.

I When questioned by the police, Wills said that he had been drinking, and was just “clowning around.” DISORDERLY BEHAVIOUR “It isn’t so funny seen in the light of dawn the next day, is lit?” the Magistrate asked Mark Robert Numan, when fining him SSO on a charge of behaving in a disorderly manner in Cathedral Square. Sergeant Prouting said Numan, aged 19. was a passen-l ger in a car travelling through' Cathedra! Square about 1.35 i a.m. on May 22. As the ve-j hide was passing Warners, Hotel he stuck his bare but-1 tocks out the window. Sev-I

• eral men and women were I about the area at the time. Numan had no explanation to offer for his action, except: to say he was sorry it had , happened- In convicting and ; fining Numan, the Magistrate, i said he accepted the apology- , (Before Mr N. L. Bradford, S.M.) PETROL THEFT | One of two youths who: drove into the Blue Star Service Station and stole $8.86 of petrol was sentenced to 12: months probation, and 50 j hours community work. Anthony Joseph Johnston., aged 19. had pleaded guilty Ito tl*a theft.

i His co-offender. David ;john McKenzie, was dealt iwith by the Court last week. ■ Counsel (Mrs J. Johnston) I said that although Johnston I was driving the car when [they stole the petrol from the [station, he had not worked ‘the petrol pump. ‘•After leaving the garage, Johnston had phoned it. identified himself, and offered to p .y half the share.” counsel said. “He is suffering from an [oppressed state of mind, and is attending weekly therapy [sessions at Christchurch Hosipital.”