DIFFICULT WOMAN
INTERFERENCE WITH SURVEY/
A CHASE WITH A SLASHER
(By TelejrraphVPreM Awociatioti.)'>: " WHANGAREI, This Day. ■■; v Described by a sergeant 6t police a*'..; "a veritable outlaw who, kept the*. authorities at bay,"' a married Maori - woman/ Anna Marea Heke, appeared' in the-Police Court at Kaitaia yester* ; day charged with: pulling up ,>rid : ; de* ■■, stroying survey, pegs. The : accuse*'r was arrested on Saturday after leading!,' two constables; a long'ehase in the bacK . country of Hokianga Harbour. ; ' Sergeant Classen said that a sur-.., veyor had been-obK'ged to flee when;; Heke chased hinr with a slasher,; The, ;. survey Completed under "policef-; protection. Heke then pulled' up the, ' pegs and burnt them. ■ : ■; Heke Was convicted, sentence being.1 deferred for a year, '•■'."' ":''., On a charge of unlawfully obstructing the free passage of people on ai. . public road by erecting a Wire fence t ,: Heke was convicted and discharged.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 119, 16 November 1937, Page 11
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144DIFFICULT WOMAN Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 119, 16 November 1937, Page 11
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