Maori’s Family Saves Him From Prison
“I would have imposed a term of imprisonment but for the fact that you have a wife and live young children,'’ said Mr. J. H. Salmon, S.M., in Die Magistrates Court, Wanganui, yesterday, to Jack Rio Maaka. aged 35, dairy factory hand, who pleaded guilty to the theft of a man's spoils cycle valued at 124. Maaka \vas given two years’ probation and was ordered to make restitution of £2O to the owner of Dm cycle, Hit ini Tamehana. Accused Is to lake out a prohibition order for the period of his probation. Restitution in the form specified would mean that accused would be the only one to suffer, th e magistrate pointed out.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 3 October 1947, Page 6
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