MAORI GAOLED

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 105, 30 October 1942, Page 5

MAORI GAOLED

FRAUDULENT COLLECTIONS

"The Maori people are very bitter about the actions of this man," said Detective-Sergeant W..McLennan in the Magistrate's Court yesterday concerning Daniel Rikihana Te.Kaho, aged 40, a labourer, who pleaded guilty to being a rogue and a vagabond in that he imposed upon Amy B. Williams by falsely representing that .he was collecting money for the Maori Mission and for the benefit of Maori soldiers serving overseas. Te Kaho also pleaded guilty to a similar charge in respect of Lady Roberts at Lower Hutt. Mr. J. L. Stout, S.M.. sentenced him to twelve months' imprisonment, to be followed by eighteen months' reformative detention.

In the last five months, said Detec-tive-Sergeant McLennan, Te Kaho had been going around the Wellington district saying that he was collecting money on behalf of the Maori Mission and Maori soldiers overseas, and he had got fairly large sums of money. His modus operandi was to start each day with a list, at the head of which he would write the name of some wellknown person, with an amount. He used the names of Mrs. Riddiford and of Mrs. B. L. Love, widow of Lieu-tenant-Colonel Love. When he had finished with the lists he threw them away, and a Lower Hutt lady saw him doing" this on one occasion. He had a bad record, and had been at the same business for the last two or three years. He had convictions for it in New Plymouth and Auckland, and had been operating in Wellington last year without being detected. The Magistrate made an order that. £3 16s 9d, which the police said Te Kaho admitted having collected, should be handed over for the benefit of Maori soldiers.