CONVERSION OF CARS
“ORGY” BY MAORI [PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.]
HAMILTON, June 21
After what was described as an orgy of car stealing, a Maori labourer, Hapi Atutahi, aged 24, appeared in the Hamilton Magistrate’s Court to-day and was committed to the Supreme Court in Auckland for sentence on five charges of car conversion and one of breaking and entering. On two charges of theft the accused was convicted and sentenced to three months’ imprisonment with hard labour on each charge, the sentences to be cumulative.
Atutahi was arrested on the hills behind Napier and convicted in the Magistrate’s Court there in June on a car conversion charge and on two charges of theft. He was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment with hard labour on the conversion charge and one month’s imprisonment with hard labour on each of the theft charges, the sentences to be cumulative.
Detective White said that the prisoner was sentenced in February last year for car conversion to two years’ reformative detention. He i/as discharged on license on May 11 and five days later began his latest orgy of car stealing. “He came out much too soon,” commented the Magistrate (Mr. Paterson).
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Greymouth Evening Star, 22 June 1937, Page 12
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