Cook Islander Injured
(A.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND. April 16 An 18-year-old Cook Islander, Mr Potero Awheto, has told the Auckland police he was stopped by three youths in a car as be .was walking towards his home in Dominion road soon after midnight last night and that they dragged him into the reserve on the corner of Dominion road and Bellevue road and tried to rob him. He said they took a soft drink bottle from his pocket and smashed it and stabbed him in the thigh with the jagged end. Mr Awheto was treated at the Auckland Hospital but the injuries were not serious. A search is being made for a cream coloured car he described
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29800, 17 April 1962, Page 11
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