"CLOSE TO NATURE"
WHITE GIRLS IN CAMP. TWO MAORI YOUTHS CHARGED THEFTS FROM COUNTRY STORE. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspond. Dt.) GISBORNE, this day. "Pretty close to Nature," was the description applied by Senior Sergeant Wade in the Police Court yesterday afternoon to the conditions under which two Maori .youths and two white girls had been living in camp at M.anutuke. Apparently, he added, the youth,> found it necessary to steal in order to keep the girls. The case was one in which Hukuwai Milner and Matene Rakataira were charged with the theft of eggs and jam from a country store, Rakataira being also charged with a breach of probation. One girl, whose name was suppressed, was charged with vagrancy. She pleaded guilty, and, 011 the suggestion of counsel, was admitted to probation for two years on condition that she remain in a designated home. The Maori youths also admitted the offences. Milner being sentenced to one month in gaol and Rakataira to one month (cumulative) 011 each charge. Senior Sergeant Wade explained that the girl and her companion lind run away from home a week previously and taken refuge in the camp of the Maori youths, who were driven to crime in order to keep them in the camp.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 223, 20 September 1934, Page 11
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