BICYCLE STOLEN IN TOWN
MAORI YOUTH FINED £5 TOOK IT TO WHATATUTU For stealing a bicycle in Gisborne on Tuesday, Kiri Stevens, aged 20, was lined £5 and ordered to pay police expenses, 9s, in default 14 days' imprisonment, when he appeared before Mr. R. L. Walton, S.M., in the Police Court to-day. The bicycle was the property of Roland G. Owen.
Senior-Sergeant J. F. H. Macnamara, who prosecuted, stated that the accused and another Maori went into Owen's hairdressing saloon in Gisborne. While his companion was having a haircut the accused went into the yard at the back and took a lady's bicycle. He was arrested by Constable Greggan at Whatat titn yesterday when riding a bicycle, which the accused admitted taking. The bicycle was not damaged. It was the accused's first offence.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19311, 29 April 1937, Page 4
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