CAREER OF CRIME
YOUNG MAORI’S OFFENCES NINE MONTHS’ IMPRISONMENT (Pick United Pucss Association) ROTORUA, March 9. Described by the Bench as an incorrigible rogue who apparently had determined to lead a life of crime, a young Maori, George Auhaka Ropeta, aged 2(i, was sentenced to nine months’ imprisonment with hard labour in the Rotorua Police Court this morning before Messrs W, L. Richards and R. B. Nesbitt, justices, on a charge of unlawfully converting to his own use a car, the pro perty of Dr D. L. Muir, of Gisborne, The police stated that Ropeta, who had a long list of convictions for theft, breaking and entering, and car conversion, extending back to the age of 15, had removed the car from outside a Rotorua private hotel, and after driving it some distance out of town had collided with a bank, wrecking the machine. Two younger Maoris who accompanied Ropeta, will be charged before the Children’s Court with breaking and entering a garage and an engineering shop during the early hours of Friday morning.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22826, 10 March 1936, Page 2
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