THEFT FROM CHINESE
OLD MAORI SENT TO PRISON
AUCKLAND, This Day. In 1893 the first conviction against Te Haurangi, aged 57, a Maori labourer, was recorded. Besides being convicted for the 74th time in the Police Court yesterday Te Haurangi was sentenced to two years' imprisonment on six charges of theft. Pleas of guilty were entered by accused to counts of stealing property and money valued at £72, belonging to Chinese market gardeners at Otahuhu and Papatoetoe, Te- Papapa, Mangere and Panmure. Chief Detective Hammond said that living alone at Onehunga Te Haurangi knew the customs of the Chinese gardeners, and while they were at their work in their fields he would sneak into their huts and thieve. He was an old thief and had been declared an habitual criminal. It was not known how he spent the £7O so quickly. He performed all the thefts between December 1 and February 1.
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Waipa Post, Volume 38, Issue 2270, 19 February 1929, Page 4
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