MAORI’S AMAZING MASQUERADE AS HOUSE SERVANT

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6901, 6 May 1929, Page 7

MAORI’S AMAZING MASQUERADE AS HOUSE SERVANT

Takapnna Sensation

IMPERSONATION TO PAY INSTALMENTS ON PIANO

“JUNE” A WONDERFUL COOK.

Times Special

AUCKLAND, Last Night,

Nicholas Haora, a Maori, aged 27, deceived, by masquerading a-s a woman, a Takapuna household, where he has been employed as a housemaid for three months, rivalling Mrs Valerie Smith (Capt. Barker, D. 5.0.) recently sentenced to nine months imprisonment in the Old Country and New Zealand’s notorious Amy Bock. Haora was driven to the impersonation to keep himself from starving and also to pay instalments on a hired piano, on which £SO was still owing. The household consisted of employer, his wife, a boy 17, and a trio of young daughters. Haora states that his mistress was so pleased with his domestic proclivities that the governess was discharged and (as he termed it) ho did everything. His employer declares there was never tho slightest suspicion that June (as Haora called himself) was anything but tho girl he was supposed to be. “She” was an excellent worker and a wonderful cook.

Tho manageress of a dining rooms where Haora was employed before his impersonation says she thought, on the other hand, that Ilaora was a woman dressed as a man. No doubt the last has not been heard of the matter by any means.