GOODS STOLEN
FROM. WHANGAREI GROCERY,
MAORI LAD ARRESTED
Early on Sunday morning Messrs Lawrence Bros.' general store in M.aumi Road, Wliangarei, was entered and four tins of tobacco, six packets of cigarettes, a dozen boxes of matches, four packets of cigarette ■papers. 21b of tea, 2 packets of candles, 701b of sugar, a-nd three 501b hags of flour, to <a total value of £3 4s Kid, were stolen. At about the same time a butchery near-by was entered. Subsequently the police arrested a Maori lad named Abraham Maunsell, who gave his age as 10 years, but looks younger. At the rejuest of Detective Do Norville, who desired to procure further evidence in regard to the charge, the accused Tad was remanded for seven days at the Magistrate's Court this morning by Mr R. W. Tate, S.M. It is stated that • -i • ' accused engaged a taxi-driver to carry the stolen goods away, explaining to liim thaT they had been left outside the store to be called'for.
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Northern Advocate, 24 June 1925, Page 4
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165GOODS STOLEN Northern Advocate, 24 June 1925, Page 4
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