A SERIES OF BURGLARIES.
ARREST OF FIVE PERSONS. TWO COMMITTED FOR SENTENCE (By Telegraph—Press Association.) Gisborne, this day. Police investigations into a series of burglaries in the Waiapu district has 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 at the stores of the Waiapu Farmers’ Co-operative Company, the value of the goods stolen being £6O. Sergeant Carroll and Constable Olsenraided the pa where two of the men concerned lived, and recovered a portion of the stolen goods, but the birds had flown. The police officers thereupon 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 the 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 the burglaries, and were committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. Another native named Philip Matenga was sentenced to one month’s imprisonment for receiving stolen property, and the two youths implicated in the thefts were sent to the Children’s Court.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXII, Issue 2613, 11 August 1928, Page 5
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202A SERIES OF BURGLARIES. King Country Chronicle, Volume XXII, Issue 2613, 11 August 1928, Page 5
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