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HOW A MAORI YOUTH FELT PROM GRACE. Press Association. AUCKLAND, December 19. Two Maori youths from the country districts were brought before Mr Justice Cooper for sentence at the Supremo Court this morning. As an excuse for stealing a horse and selling it for £4 (is 6d at Tauranga, Timo Tio Heko submitted that he had been anxious to serve as a special constable during the strike trouble, and needed money to got to town. The prisoner stated that he had repaid tho amount involved. In admitting the prisoner to probation for twelve months, His Honour remarked that his experience of Maori youths released on probation wont to show that they invariably obeyed the conditions. The second prisoner, Ngawadi Slade, found guilty of two charges of breaking and entering at Kaikoho, had four previous convictions for similar offences against him. A sentence of twelve months’ imprisonment on each charge was inflicted, and at the expiration three years’ reformative treatment.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8609, 20 December 1913, Page 5
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