“SILENT DRINKER”
MAORI’S BLIGHTED CAREER MAY BE GIVEN CHANCE Drink was said by Mr. Bryce Hart to have caused the downfall of Pine Karokiakore, who faced two charges of theft at the Police Court this morning. Karakiakore, a Maori, aged 28, pleaded guilty to stealing, on November X, a tennis racquet valued at £1 10s belonging to persons unknown, and on October 23. at Whangamata, stealing £7 3s 5d belonging to James Lin-: nott. Cliief-Detectlve Hammond said that the Maori had broken into a whare near Thames, stealing goods which he had taken to town and sold. He had been out of gaol only four or five months, and was an habitual criminal. “Karakiakore is a silent drinker,” said Mr. Hart. “He gets away on his own and, when drunk, starts to steal. He had a bright career as a scholar in a welLknown Southern college. Drink has been his only trouble, and I would suggest that he be given a chance and ordered to take out a prohibition order.’ “I will have a talk with the probation officer about him,” promised the magistrate, and remanded the offender fpr sentence, to-morrow.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 510, 13 November 1928, Page 10
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