Poorer but wiser

Press, 17 November 1980, Page 4

Poorer but wiser

PA’ Auckland She was not that sort of girt la fact, she was not any sort of girl, as a lonely man who was propositioned and picked up by a transvestite in Upper Queen Street. Auckland, found on Thursday niftht. On Friday he was poorer but wiser. He got away from the transvestite’s Inner-city house with his trousers but without his wallet. This, and similar latenight Incidents, are concerning the police, who

have warned men of the dangers of being propositioned by apparently attractive yourtg “girls” in the Upper. Queen Street area. They said that the area had re-emerged as a haunt for trahsveslltH who often worked Itt pairs or groups to rob or steal from clients one of them had enticed from the street. Thursday's victim was taken . to a house where another transvestite was waiting. Ills wallet was stolen and soon aftcY he

was thrown out of the house, ills trousers were thrown after him. A man was to appear In the District Court at Aucland charged with theft. Earlier on Thursday evening another man, picked up by a transvestite in the same area, was set on by a group of transvestites in a Mount Eden house and robbed of his wallet containing $139. The police later arrested a man who was also to appear in the District Court charged with rob-