Forgery: man is convicted

Taupo Times, Volume 23, Issue 46, 11 June 1974, Page 8

Forgery: man is convicted

't Frederick Charles Kapua, of Turangi, was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if called upon within 12 months after ^ pleading guilty in the ^tannn. Magistrates' Court last week to a charge of forgery. He appeared before Mr P. J. Trapski, SM, who further ordered him to pay restitution of $132.20, witness' expenses $23 and $30 towards the cost of prosecution. Kapua was charged with forging an application for a payment voucher belonging to the Rotorua office of the Maori and Island Affairs Department on July 4 last year. A further charge of forging a cheque number at Rotorua on the same ^ I day was dismissed. ea A Ross Wayne Whaanga, I 21, single, workman, of B Taupo, was fined $150, 1 Court costs $5 and ordered | to pay $10 compensation when he appeared on a I charge of wilful damage. The Court heard how in the early hours of April 27 1 the complainant had been sitting in his car when he I was approached by E Whaanga who asked | "where the parties were." He walked away from I the car, turned and threw a I beer bottle at the car I window. "The flying glass cut the complainant on the cheek," said Senior-Sergeant Mon- ' I cur. Later Whaanga admitted throwing the bottle. ea T raffic cases dealt with 1 were: Failing to yield right of way: Peter Dennis Long, $45, Court costs $5. No driver's licence: Fran- | cesca Mary Van Pointon, $12, court costs $5.