YOUNG MAORI ARRESTED.
*—. o.\ CHARGE OF FORGERY. .\n educated native name.] Tai Heketa. aged years, who is well known in | Rugby football circles, was arrested yes- j terday afternoon by Detective Quarter-1 man on a charge that, in October last, |. be forged an entry in n Savings Bank ftook. purporting to be nn acknowledgment of the receipt of a deposit of £5-0. and caused W. T. (lihnour to net on it as if it were genuine. Tiie accused is a college-educated young Maori, who Ttas been employer! in Wei 1 ingti.it and Allcfc- ; land as a clerk, and ha- had considerable stnii-- of money, from legacies, to i spend. The alle_a.tb.ll is Hint be bor- j rowed a sum of £.'! oil the strength of an entry in his bank bonk, which would j indicate that he had just deposited £-.00 j in the ba.nk. and which is alleged to be a j false entry interpolated in the hook by j tho accused. It was stated in the Police Court this morning, when accused was j remanded till "Monday. that at lea. t n-n- j other charge of similar character would ■ tie preferred. Bail was fixed tit two I sureties of £»o.i each.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 126, 28 May 1914, Page 2
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