WINDOW KICKED IN

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 73, 17 November 1931, Page 6

WINDOW KICKED IN

DISTURBANCE CREATED UNDER INFLUENCE OF DRINK VENTED ALLEGED GRIEVANCE Charged with breaking a window in a private house at Mamaku, a middle aged man, whose name was ordered to be suppressed, yesterday pleaded guilty in the Rotorua Magistrate's Court when brought before Messrs. A. W. Downer and Sloan J.'s.P. Senior Sergeant Carroll, for the police, stated that the accused had visited Mamaku on the night of November 14 for the purpos'e of attending a dance. Apparently he had been under the influenee of liquor and conceiving that he had a grievance against the station master owing to his recent dismissal from the service, visited the house of that official and endeavoured to knock him up. When the station master refused to come outside, however, the accused had kicked in a window and created a disturbance. Neighbouring residents had finally* removed him and later he had been arrested. Mr. G. McDowell, who appeared for the accused stated that he had hitherto had a good record, and appealed to the Bench to take a lenient view of the case. Accused had been in ill health for some time and had been taking a course of baths treatment which might have caused him to succumb more easily than usual to the effects of liquor. The Bench imposed a conviction and ordered accused to pay £1 for the repair of the window and 15s court costs. No penalty was imposed on condition that the accused took out a prohibition order. An order was made for the suppression of the name.