SHEEP STEALING.

Press, Volume LI, Issue 15279, 15 May 1915, Page 5

SHEEP STEALING.

MAORIS SENTENCED. (smciAL ro "thb press."i GISBORNE, May 11. For some years farmers at Nuhaka have been losing many sheep and cattle, hut owing to tlie distance from Gisbornc or Wairoa, tho offences have not been detected. The stationing of Constable Potter at Nnhaka resulted in the rounding up of a batch of shcep-steal-crs. He had been out many months planted near some whare**. but only on April 17th, succeeded. Ho witnessed tho burning of a wharo with 40 skins, the removal of blood-stained boards where sheep had been killed, tho making of a fire, and the burning of skins. When the Natives implicated left, he secured the half-burnt skins and took all the cars off. After a long hearing, Mr Barton, S.M., convicted them and gave them six months' imprisonment in Napier Gaol. Two others, who pleaded guilty, each got two months' imprisonment, and a woman 12 months' probation.

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