ALLEGED ROBBERY

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 64, 17 March 1933, Page 9

ALLEGED ROBBERY

"TAKEN FOR A. RIDE"

MAORI DROVER'S" STORY

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) GISBORXE, This Day. Police investigations into tho alleged robbery of a Maori-drover will probably culminate in two men being charged : with robber}' under arms. In AmeviI can vernacular, the Maori was "taken for a ride," and after his money had j been demanded at the point of a revolver, was struck on the head and left unconscious on the roadside within a mile of Tokomaru Bay.

The Maori, whoso name is Pahura Matehe, on Wednesday dre\y from the Tokomaru Bay Farmers' Co-operativo Company £20 for droving fees, and thereafter made purchases to the value of £-10. He then went to the Tokomaru Bay Hotel, and, it is stated, there met tho two men. He paid for two or three drinks for his newly-made acquaintances ,and then suggested that the men should drive him. home to Waipiro Bay. When they' reached a point a milo south of the town he was ordered Out of the ear, and one of the men, pointing a revolver at him, said, "We want your money or-yon."

. That was tho last the Maori knew of the affair, for he states that ho was Struck on the head. This occurred at 4.30 o'clock in the afternoon, and later a drover .found Matehe lying on the roadside. The Maori was brought to the Tokomaru Bay police station about two hours after, and, beinj," in a dazed condition, gave a rambling statement of what li.'id occurred.