Donation ordered

Press, 29 June 1983, Page 17

Donation ordered

Judge Wilson yesterday morning ordered a young woman to pay a fine of $l2O towards the Telethon appeal when she appeared in the District Court charged with jumping on plants in the floral clock display in Victoria Street early on Sunday morning. Noeline Margaret Maxted, aged 20, a forestry worker, admitted a charge of behaving in a disorderly manner. Later in the afternoon, Maxted handed the Judge an official receipt for the amount. “I am delighted to know that Telethon will benefit by a further $120,” said the Judge. Sergeant G. C. Jones said that the defendant had

been seen by two traffic officers. The exact amount of damage had not been assessed but, said Sergeant Jones, the parks and reserves department of the Christchurch City Council went to a lot of trouble to keep the clock area attractive for the benefit of the people of Christchurch and overseas visitors. A duty solicitor (Mr P. B. McMenamin) said the defendant had been caught up in the pandemonium of Telethon and had been milling outside the Town Hall when the offence occurred. The Judge told Maxted hat he would stand the matter down until 3 p.m. and, provided the defendant returned to the Court with

an official receipt for $l2O made out to Telethon, she would be convicted and discharged. He added that the receipt would be affixed to the court file, because “you are not going to use it to get a tax deduction.”