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Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 310, 25 September 1943, Page 9

The Bluff oyster season will close ou Thursday next. , “Accused has a shockingly bad list,” said Detective-Sergeant W. McLennan in the Magistrates’ Court, Wellington, yesterday, referring to Knliu Kapuaroa, a Maori labourer, aged 27, who pleaded guilty to the theft of articles, 30/- in New Zealand currency, and a quantity of American money,'of a (olal value of £37, the property of Ellen Bowden. He added rhat complainant wag a poor (Struggling woman whose husband was overseas. Accused litl'J sold a wateli ami fountain pen. Mr. Stout, S.M., sentenced Kakuaroa to .1.2 mouths’ imprisonment at hard labour aud ordered that tho'nroperty which had been recovered should be returned to the owner.