THEFT OF HORSES
MAOR! SENT TO GAOL MANY PREVIOUS CONVICTIONS | FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT] HAMILTON, Friday An appeal that he should not again be sent to prison on account of his phvsical disability and large family was made by Wbaro Matangi Hiki, aged 51, a Maori farmer, when he appeared for sentence before Mr, Justice Johnston in the - Supreme Court at .Hamilton to-day for stealing two horses and a foal at* Qruanui in December. The prisoner said he had refunded the money received for the horses. He was afraid of losing tho pension he was receiving and that his large family would be left destitute. His. Honor said prisoner had a long list of previous convictions for sexual offences, assault, theft and horsestealing, and lie had been declared an habitual criminal. He must go .to prison. His health would be looked after by. the authorities. The prisoner was sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22955, 5 February 1938, Page 20
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