COURTS AND OFFENCES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 11 August 1928, Page 5

COURTS AND OFFENCES.

BURGLARIES' IN WAIAI U DISTRICT.

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) GISBORNE, Aug. 11. Police investigations into a series of burglaries iin the Waiapu.- district cul. iniiiatad in the arrest of three Maori men and two youths. Within the knowledge of the jpolce six iburglanios were committed since tlbe beginning of last month, principally at the stores of the Waiapu Farmers’. Company, the value of the -goods -stolen being £6O. Sergeant Oa-rroH and Constable Olsen raided a pa where two of the men concerned lived and recovered a portion of the stolen goods, but their birds had flown. Police officers set out before daylight upon an arduous ride into the heart of the Raukumana 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 Poilioe Court at Awanui George Taiapa Hamara Tb Ma.ro and Charlie Ward pleaded guilty to the burglaries and w'ere committed to the Supieme Court for sentence.

Another native named Philip Mating was sentenced to a month’s imprisonment for receiving stolen property, and the two youths concerned in the- thefts were sent to the Children’s Court.