Ghosts blamed for incident
(New Zealand Press Association)
AUCKLAND, January 13.
In the Islands, a locked home meant that there were ghosts inside, a Samoan, Fealofagi Leuatea, told the police.
Today Leuatea, aged 32, unemployed, pleaded guilty, through an interpreter, in the Auckland Magistrate’s Court, to wilful damage.
After hearing an outline by Sergeant B. S. Boreham, Mr N. R. Taylor, S.M., discharged the man under section 42 of the Criminal Justice Act and ordered him to pay $l5 restitution. Sergeant Boreham said that when Leuatea found a house in Mount Roskill locked, he wanted to see the ghosts. He kicked and punched his way through a plate-glass window to get inside. There he broke a number of other glass articles. He also broke an aerial of a car parked in the driveway of the house. Leuatea had been in New Zealand for three weeks and had been drinking, but was not drunk at the time.
The Magistrate said he w_ald take a lenient view of the incident as Leuatea was obviously a newcomer to the country.
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Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33741, 14 January 1975, Page 3
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