Maori Admits Breaking And Entering House At Makirikiri

Wanganui Chronicle, 27 January 1948, Page 6

Maori Admits Breaking And Entering House At Makirikiri

Pleading guilty to a charge of breaking and entering the dwelling of Gordon Pauli at Gentle Annie ■*, January 16, Harpur Marumaru Pali, labourer, aged 24 years, with no fixed abode, was committed to the Supreme Court at Wellington for sentence by Mr. J. H. Salmon, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court yesterday. On a charge of stealing a bicycle valued at £lO, the property of A. J. Borich, accused was sentenced to three months in the Wellington Gaol. On a charge of stealing a watch valued at £6, the property of Scott Paki, at Turakina, accused was convicted and discharged. Gordon Pauli, photographer’s assistant, said he owned a small dwelling at the top of the Gentle Annie Hill. On January 17 he found that the dwelling had been broken into and a quantity of beer, cigarettes, and chocolate and a pair of swimming togs had been stolen. Two doors in tiie house had been broken. Detective L. B. Vasta read a statement by accused in which he related how he broke into the house and detailed the articles he had removed. Dealing with the other cases to which accused pleaded guilty and elected to be dealt with summarily, Detective-Sergeant J. K. Robertson said accused had stolen the watch from the house of his brother. He had stolen the bicycle in Wanganui. The dynamo accused had given away but the lamp he said he had thrown owrdw owodw owrw owrd owrdwfw away. In sentencing accused, the magistrate said that his record showed that he had been before the Children’s Court in 1940 on 13 charges of theft. In 1943 he had been convicted of theft at Marton. The same year he was convicted and sent to Borstal for two years on charges of forging and uttering and in 1944 had been given a year’s reformative detention for theft at Auckland. He had only recently been released after serving a year's imprisonment.