Youths In Court After Disturbances At The Mt.

Press, Volume CV, Issue 30957, 13 January 1966, Page 15

Youths In Court After Disturbances At The Mt.

Neto Zealand Press Association)

TAURANGA, Jan. 12. Fifteen youths appeared be fore Mr G. J. Donne, S.M., to day on charges arising from a disturbance at Maunganui, early on New Year's Day. Raymond Derek Water house, aged 19, a seaman, of Auckland, was convicted and fined £lO and costs of £1 10s on a charge of disorderly behaviour. He pleaded not guilty. Kenneth Charles Beatson aged 24, a commercial artist of Takapuna, was convicted and fined £l5 and costs on i charge of assaulting a police officer. He pleaded guilty. Henry Watson, aged 19, a farmhand, of Walton, was con victed and fined £7 10s and costs on a charge of using ob scene language. He pleaded guilty. Three youths were convicted and remanded in custody until tomorrow afternoon for sentence. They were Rodney Harrison, aged 23, a labourer, of Wanganui, and Larry Donald Ramsey, aged 17. an apprentice mechanic, of Kawerau who both pleaded guilty to disorderly behaviour charges, and Paul Dalton Lindsay, aged 21, a driver, of Upper Hutt, who pleaded

guilty to obstructing the police. Four youths were convicted and remanded until January 120 for sentence. They were I Terence William Grant, aged 118, a labourer, of Maunganui, who pleaded guilty to a disorderly behaviour charge, David Niven Lundy, aged 21, a car salesman, of Mount Roskill, who pleaded guilty to an obscene language charge, and Daniel Theodoris Steensma, aged 19, a workman, of Wellington, and Robert Wallace, aged 19, a labourer, of Taumarunui, who both pleaded not guilt}’ to disorderly behaviour charges. Informations against Michael Martin Duff, aged 22, a driver of Taumarunui (assaulting police officer), and Cedric Lionel O'Neille, aged 20, an apprentice carpenter, of Hamilton (disorderly behaviour), were dismissed. Frank Michael McCluskey, aged 21, a carpenter, of Marton. was awarded £5 5s costs against the police when the I Magistrate dismissed a disor- ! derly behaviour charge against I him. A charge of carrying an offensive weapon against (Graeme Trevor Monk, aged 20, ia printer, of -Auckland, was (also dismissed.