SURVEY HINDERED
MAORI WOMAN’S ACTIONS By Telegraph—Press Association WHARGAREI, November 16. Described by a sergeant of police as a veritable outlaw who kept the authorities at bay, a married Maori woman, Anna Marea Heke, appeared in the Police Court at Kaitaia before Messrs T. S. Houston and F. P. Rowe, J.P.’s, yesterday, charged with pulling and destroying survey pegs. The accused was arrested on Saturday after leading two constables a long chase in the back country of the Hokianga harbour. Sergeant Classen said 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 pegs and burnt them. Heke 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 Heke was convicted and discharged.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20887, 17 November 1937, Page 7
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