AFTER THE TANGI.
RIDE PROVED COSTLY. "BORROWED" BICYCLE. When Tommy Taupe, a Maori labourer, aged 22, rode away on a cycle valued at £7 belonging to another Maori. Ben Piarama, trouble was in store for him. Thie morning he appeared in the Police Court on the resultant charge of theft of the machine on October 23. Detective Lane produced a statement made to him by Taupe, in which he said he had been to a tangi at Mangere and "borrowed" the cycle to ride to Onehunga. He then decided he would use the machine to look for work, and went to Huntlv.
The owner of the cycle was called, and denied giving Taupe authority to take the cycle even ae far as Onehuuga.
Mr. C. R. Orr Walker, S.M., fined Taupe £-3, or 14 days' imprisonment, but allowed him one month in which to
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 282, 29 November 1938, Page 11
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