Posed As Tahitian
LV.Z. Press Association) NAPIER, August 19. An 18-year-old Te Puke youth who told a Napier detective that he was a Tahitian national and that his passport and money had been stolen from him appeared in the Napier Magistrate’s Court today charged with making a false statement to the police.
The youth, Graham Pine Michael Moke, a linesman, pleaded guilty to the charge, and also to a charge of stealing a wallet containing £l6,
the property of Maxwell John Edmunds. He was remanded by Mr W. K. L. Dougall, S.M., to September 19 with a view to discharge under section 42 of the Criminal Justice Act. He was ordered to pay £2O towards the cost of the prosecution, and restitution of £8 Us 4d. Detective Senior-Sergeant H. Baldock said Moke threw his wallet away on the Napier beach then reported the theft of the wallet, a sum of money and his passport to the Napier police. He claimed that he was a Tahitian national and that his name was Croyden Jean Smith. Another wallet, stolen from a person in a boarding house, was found on him.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31143, 20 August 1966, Page 3
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188Posed As Tahitian Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31143, 20 August 1966, Page 3
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