POSED AS WOMAN.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19612, 7 May 1929, Page 7

POSED AS WOMAN.

MAORI PREFERRED HOUSEWORK. ASTONISHING MASQIEKAL'E AT AUCKLAND. [THE ?MSB Special Service.] U'CKLAND. May 6. An wto.n.u,,, n-q-.t, that he be .i to comnuH, wearing female at. w« made l.v N ikora Hune Haora, tire ' * \-ion 'aftor he had pleaded B TZ U Mitral*'* C:ourt thu. * U,lt - V 'u havn.g lately represented morninii '' ' fi l# 'J'lw request w*» hixa ,\ lu-mitll b-'inspector Mt Carthy made um>l ; t , uil | ull i been entered, f'rUrV'K Hunt, S-M., emphatically that the ».n »».t - ..Influx i-Nininioii to ins SIM. *<*''. ,„.,) "(i who was arrested Mil sm • TAapuna. last evenin * io f lli , *. 1 ' liitv ,o a eharge of imUap * Uv fairly njpreto°. ;,„ ih- was a female, June mffi » obtain ins employment as OUata, " , , Fehi-uurv Ist and M»y ' u!l ' " ltU1 "" "ft,, „„a !'s name was called, -" ' , „ut ~l: the room usually Haorll .n ■ ..risoners. He was T"m , "i..nal.io green crepe jL k |iut K«-'v - silli «tock.n S s ami S&nt athe'r high-heeled. shoes \\ ith p - •/.(,.,,. -md adjusting a brown Slicing step-'' ' ,u ~ , J \ ,t,,, ,|,„.k fmt fur as ho walked into the (lock, iiLra looked, even on close scrutiny, like a Maori girl. Kinglets of glossy M«rU hair peeped from under the smart SSI hat Haora looked coyly at the SEairtrat* from behind the shelter or Bis fur. 01,1 . v his brown pyv ' s COU 16 After* making his plea of guilty Haora stood silent, and the Magistrate's first comment was: "If he s a « an> he'd better take his hat off for a start." < Loud laughter.) Haora hesitated and then removed his hat. Long wavy hair fell about his neck and tn* crowd laughed. He looked uncomfortable. On'oho occasion, when his voice wm heard, it was uncommonly feminine In tone bring pitched in a high alto. Sub-Inspector McCarthy said the rase was oiio of those where a man find an inclination for woman's work. Haora could not he allowed to continue masquerading «* » "woman. Nothing serious had occurred, but such a masouerade could not be tolerated under the law. "It must bo stopped," added tho Sub-Inspector. "Take him away and burn those clothes he's got on." said Mr Hunt. "Then send him back to bis people Sub-Inspector McCarthy : People who know I'im spealc very well of Haora. A woman who has had quite a lot to do with him still refuses to believe he is 11 man." (Laughter.) "Well, he's convicted nnd ordered to come tin for sentence when called upon. And tell him he must get into bis own clothes immediately," said Mr Hunt. Mr McCarthy added that Haora was a well-educated young man. Mr Hunt remarked that th*»re had heen mnnv cases in history of the feminine mind and masculine body.