George's Life Savings Paid For His Friend's Wedding Trip

NZ Truth, Issue 1079, 29 July 1926, Page 7

George's Life Savings Paid For His Friend's Wedding Trip

inghouse at'GO, ' Wellesley Street,' Auckland, about April, 1925. "He led me to believe that he was a very smart, man and said that he had read all about, the Maoris and that the European was too sharp for the Maori and always took his land. "He said the European had a higher education than the Maori and could always beat 'the Maori. . ' "I did not like .him saying this 1 and thought that I. would like to beat him." A Farming Fable ' Rangatahi laid his schemes very thoroughly, it would appear. He told George that he had a wife and family working on his 500-acre dairy farm, and- backed it up by showing him plans. • ' \"I was not married at the time and. what I told him about my wife and family was also lies, and so was the dairy* farming, and that I had a lot of money. "I got very friendly with Mr. ; George "and he told me also that he had a lot of money m the bank.; He told me he had £800. "About December 9 I told him that all my money was m the Commercial Bank of Australia at Auckland at fixed deposit and that I had £5000 there due for repayment to me May 2, 1926, "I did: not know that date was a Sunday, but I only casually mentioned the date:" Rangatahi began to feel m December that the time was ripe for action. He took George to the office, of a Mr Rukutai, >a Maori interpreter, and by telling him. that he wanted to pay some contractors who were working on his place ' he borrowed £38 on .il P.N. - '•• ; , -"■■' . ■ ■'-/■'■- A Merry Christmas ! About a week before Christmas the young Maori, -apparently got the festive feeling m hissystem and thought the time hadicome to tickle his victim again. '.. ■ This time he raised £34 on the grounds that he had a surveyor to pay. Another P.N. was drawn up at the interpreter's office. ' . ■■ j George was to get back £37 for his £34. Two "experimental bleedings, having been so successful, Rangitahi came again,. on December. 29. /This; time he got £60 with which to pay contractors. His finesse was remarkable for' one of so simple a race as George held the Maoris to be. ; ;