ROADMEN ROBBED.
YOUNG MAORI'S OFFENCE.
REMANDED FOR SENTENCE.
"A SILENT DRINKER."
Pine Karakiakore (28), a well-dressed Maori labourer, for whom Mr. Bryce Hart appeared, stood in the Police Court dock this morning to plead guilty to charges of stealing a tennis racquet worth £1 10/ and clothes valued at £7 3/5.
Chief Detective Hammond said that Pine had been employed by the Public Works Department near Thames. Wnile on his way to Auckland, he broke into a whare of a roadmen's camp and stole the articles, which he afterwards sold. Only four or five months ago, accused emerged from gaol after serving a good sentence.
Mr. Hart said that accused's trouble was entirely due to drink.
Mr. Hunt: There is no mention of drunkenness in his list of previous convictions.
"Perhaps not," said counsel, "but he is a silent drinker."
Mr. Hart added that the Maori, when in liquor, got impulses to steal other people's property. He was a brilliant scholar and had been educated at a wellknown Southern school. Hβ was also a hard worker.
Mr. Hunt remanded accused until tomorrow morning for sentence.-
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 269, 13 November 1928, Page 7
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