BARREL OF PORT WINE
THEFT BY A MAORI [by telegraph—own correspondent] WELUNGTON, Friday After having been seen rolling a barrel along McKenzie Street, Petone, in the small hours of the morning of September 8, Lou Horo Gootes,. a Maori, aged 26, pleaded guilty before Mr. A. M. Goulding, S.M., in the Petone Court to stealing a 40-gallon cask of port wine, valued at £'•¥).
Detective-Sergeant F. N. llobinson said Cootes attended a party on September 7 and partook of liquor. The following morning he visited the Petone police station and reported finding a barrel of liquor. The liquor was missing from a hotel, and Cootes bad been seen between 3 and 5 a.m. that day rolling the barrel along McKenzic Street. It was later ascertained he had left it. outside his house on the footpath. Later in the morning he asked a neighbour for help to get the cask into his bouse, but the neighbour refused, and told him to report it to the police, which he did. Ho told the police ho had found the cask. . Cootes was admitted to probation for two vears.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23767, 21 September 1940, Page 13
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