A MAORI'S " SORE FOOT."
WHERE HE HID THE MONEY
(Pen f'Rcsg Association.) AUCKLAND. .March 3,
James Queen travelled down Wairoa river to Helensville on Sunday night, his cabin mate'being an elderly Maori named Mihaka. Next morning Queen found that £3O had been taken from the pocket of tlie trousers in which he slept. The Mauri was very sympathetic and offered to lend him £l. The police were then informed, and Mihaka was interviewed. "When asked to (show all the money he had he turned out of hit; pockets £2 Pie lld and offered to submit to a search. After searching his pockets the detectives ordered him to remove hits boots, and this Mihaka did very gingerly, remarking that his foot was wire and requesting them not to touch it. Tho detectives wore inexorable, and on feeling tho "sore" foot found 10 sovereigns. Mihaka was immediately arrested. At the Court he was remanded for a wcok.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9740, 4 March 1914, Page 3
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