4 A.M. FIREWORKS

Greymouth Evening Star, 11 June 1932, Page 5

4 A.M. FIREWORKS

YOUNG MEN APOLOGISE. Fivo young men, including a peer and a baronet, who exploded fireworks on the estates of Sir John Leigh, M.P., and Mr. and Mrs. George H. Pinckard in the early hours of Sunday, April 10, have Sent letters of apology for their conduct. They are: —Viscount Selby, Sir Anthony Lindsay-Hogg, Mr. Robin Reed, Mr. David Behar, and Mr. Richard Mallock.

At 4 a.m. the young men drove to Witley Park/ near Godaiming, the home of Sir John Leigh, and after knocking up the lodgekeeper drove'up to the house, flinging flreworks from cither side of the car. They then drove on to Coombe Court, Ohiddingfold, the home of Mr. and Mrs.' Pinckard, a few miles away, where they threw more fireworks. When the butler levelled a gun at the car they drove away rapidly. •

’ Both Sir John Leigh and Mrs. Pinckard have now received letters of

apology, signed by all five men, stating that they recognise their conduct to hav'o been “a joke in the worst possible taste.” The apologies have been accepted, but Mrs. Pinckard, who had begun legal proceedings, has made it a condition of her .acceptance that the men should give twenty-five guineas to the rector of Ohiddingfold for his nursing association. That they have promised to do.