MAORI'S BAD RECORD.
IMPRISONED rOR THEFT.
(By Telegraph.—Own Correspon4lont.)
GISBORNE, this day.
Sentence of two months' imprisonment was imposed upon a Maori, Wiremu Te Monnui (24), for the theft of a pullover, valued at 7/0, when lig appeared before Mr. K. L. Walton, S.M., this morning.
Henlor-Serjjeant MiNamara said the owner of the property, Dai.-y McLean, had been übsent from her liouee and when she returned hlio found the place had been ransacked and that a number of article were missing. Accused had a particularly bad list, having served three ET«I«.K n V ,ch ° f tw ° charges of theft, W«nu-, * ° r - brMkin * and entering at lSrr„n B( T , 'v" 1 ? m ° n , th " for a Bil "ilar lolTence n Napier and three month* for lalse pretences at Wairoa, •
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 118, 22 May 1939, Page 12
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