CHARGE OF FORGERY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15521, 31 January 1914, Page 7

CHARGE OF FORGERY.

;.'"•'■:'-'<■ .;' ','. r -~'*» —•& ",i»i ..iV.ra; YOUNG MAORI m court, ; '■ SALE OF /; E-IMfeS., . i ".'-■'. . '."■'... ""'.r-■''*"■ - -?'■■*■ ■'■''"fi".'£V--'-' . .V:,i ■-";",■•"-T- "' v ■.''■.:- ; - i"^,--";*-."'- 1 «■■—""- •* - -» t if A totoi'g Maori named Tohi'.Huilorpa.waS • charged at the Police touri'yesterday, ; before Mr. E. C. Cntten, ing forged trie name of "brother";'--Tira-. .whete, Huitoroa, to tw<?'..yoTOh"ers '; for v •■; £46 ' 7s lOd and £39 14s 6d m: January, 1913,.-thereby causing A/W3*wagwjnath $ to act upon them as "if gamine." Mr.'if. ■ J. Stilling appeared for. -'the ac'cus'e"d. v In his evidence A, W. • BaragVahaf-h, -a - clerk in' the " Native. Lands Department, stated that in October. 1911^the .Department received money for the; sals>f.pertain lands in which the accused arid his brother, . Tarawhete,- who was a • minorj'weTe : interested. ; In the foUowirigrJanuaryti further, sum was received from .the: sale of: V. other lands in which they.'ako.had a~sb3re.;'.. On January 18, 1912, witness-paid ■ tire accused the sum of £46 7s -lOd, . this being : his share of the first-mentioned sale,'.and on January 26 £39 "14s 6d," whichf'reprc- -,-. serited his interest in the second sale. The. sum due to Tarawhete was held i:i trust jby the- Department. :On January 14, 1913, [ the accused, in company with E. R. Cook, land agent, called at the ing himself as Tarawhete i Htntfeoar*,and was identified as such by Cook '.:' Hei'asked for the money .due to ;. by witness the sum of. £46-t2?ai9i}lx-iOn : j January 28, 1913, the accused -agatovcalled and asked for the second- iSbiffi't -due' to Tarawhete, and witness! himi as the man who had preyiou'% calfeallitli ' Cook, paid over-: the , sum"of;7£W3&/6d, ■ "•: and, as before, the : accused;: signed 4 his "■ brother's name to the voucher, -jjo discovery was made until January 20 1914, when the father the : .accused. called on the Department and applied tor.&e money •=■:; due to his son, Tarawhete, ~/'~'y CC.7=», ■.' H. E. Cook, in evident that'he remembered having accompanied "" cused to the Lands.Office ons January 14, : 1913, believing him to be Tarawhete. ',:■?': In cross-examination., he ..stated 1 that Maoris frequently had several' names, and " he considered that this was;;.the4,case- with . " the accused, whom he a, Tsi?m- ■: . ber of the Huitorpaiaroily^,He mentioned - " a case of one man : called" several "3i§erenfc names in .legal deeds, alt,of i which •were" genuine." ... - ." *" 5 ' - ; >,!"•■-^*.. .'.: A statement was handed, in jajDete&ive." •■ Sergeant Ward, in which'•■lht^ccnseji^a'd--''''' mitted the offences, and Promised "{©"make'" restitution. , *•; A plea of not guilty, wasr-made by the accused, and he.,-.was cbmratted to the i Supreme Court for trial, defence being reserved. '.'.,,; ..... -;;:-:■■ ..,-°-'