CONVERSION OF CAR
.YOUNG MAN SENT TO GAOL
(PBBSS ASSOCIATION TEtBOR'AM.)
ROTORUA, March 9.
Described by the Bench as an incorrigible rogue who apparently was determined to lead a life of crime, a Maori, George Auhaka Ropeta, aged 25, was sentenced to nine months' imprisonment with hard labour in the Rotorua Magistrate's Court this morning, before Messrs W. L. Richards and R. B. Nesbitt, justices of the peace, on a charge of unlawfully converting to his own use a car, the property of Dr. D. L. Muir, of Gisborne.
The police stated that Ropeta, who had a long list of convictions for theft, breaking and entering, and car conversions extending back to the age of 15, had removed the car from outside a Rotorua private hotel and after driving it some distance out of town hit a bank, wrecking .the machine. Two younger Maoris who accompanied Ropeta will be charged before the Children's Court with breaking and entering a garage and an engineering shop during the early hours of Friday morning. . .
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21728, 10 March 1936, Page 6
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