AN OBSTRUCTIONIST
SURVEYOR CHASED WITH SLASHER MAORI WOMAN BEFORE COURT (Per United Press Association) WHANGAREI, Nov. 16, Described by a police sergeant as a veritable outlaw who had kept the authorities at bay. a Maori woman Anna Marea Heke, married, appeared in the Police Court at Kaitaia charged with pulling out and destroying survey pegs. The accused was arrested on Saturday after leading two constables a long chase in the back country of Hokianga harbour. Sergeant Classen said that a surveyor had been obliged to flee when Heke chased him with a slasher. The survey was completed under police protection. Heke then pulled out the peps ~nd burned them. The accused was convicted, sentence being deferred for a year. On a charge of unlawfully obstructing the free passage of people on a public road by the erection of a wire fence the woman was convicted and discharged.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23351, 17 November 1937, Page 17
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