BOGUS GOLD REEF

Northern Advocate, 3 May 1932, Page 10

BOGUS GOLD REEF

LAND AGENTS DITED. MAORI SENT TO PET SON. (Special to “Northern Advocate.”) ROTORUA, This Day. Tn the Magistrate’s CVmfct yestertiny, AFateno To Huaki, alias Billy AT arti n, was charged with obtaining money by false pretences from E. T. •Johnson, land agent. The facts disclosed were that the accused met AFr Johnson in the street on April go, and said he had a piece of quartz in his pocket which held promise of a rich return from the parent reef. The quartz changed hands. Huaki promised secrecy, and raised an advance ot I/. Oa the following day .Johnson paid up another .10/, and then other small sums, bringing the advance up to .Id/. Then Huaki was placed in a car and driven (0 or oil miles tn the scene of his “ at Euntahuna, but there was no trace of a root or gold-bearing country. Faitcr Senior-Sergeant Carroll took a hand and “Billy was asked to explain where the specimen came from. He declared that it was part of a reel which had been disclosed by a “lip on the banks of the AVhakatano diver live years ago. AH the Court yesterday, the old duel Tutanekai said hi* had the specimen in bis possession for L’O years, j iFe had iml given it to accused. Ho | had no right to' la lie it away, as it | had been left with him bv a dead! man. I Accused was sentenced to 1-i da vs’ gaol with bard labour.