MAORI THIEVES
POLICE ARDUOUS BUSH-RIDE. (Press Association.) GISBORNE, August 11. Police investigations into a series of burglaries in the Waiapu district, culminated in the arrest of three Maori men and two youths. Within the knowledge of the police, six burglaries were committed since the beginning of last month, principally {it the stores of the Waiapu Farmers’ Co., the value of the goods stolen being £6O. Sergt. Carroll and Constable Olsen raided a pa, where two of the men concerned lived, and recovered a portion of the stolen goods, but the birds had flown. The police officers set out before daylight upon an arduous ride into the heart of the Raukumara Ranges, and after a journey of 45 miles over rough bush trails arrived back with two prisoners and the balance of the stolen property. In the Police Court at Awanui, George Taiapa, Hamara/Te Maro, and Charlie Ward pleaded guilty to burglaries, and were committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. Another Native, Phillip Matenga, was sentenced to a months imprisonment for receiving stolen property, and two youths, complicated in the thefts, were 'sent to the Children’s Court.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 11 August 1928, Page 2
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