INCIDENCE OF CRIME AMONG YOUNG MAORIS WHO COME TO CITIES
WELLINGTON. Yesterday.—“ You young Maoris who come to the city are really becoming a disgrace to your people,” said the Chief Justice, Sir Humphrey O’Leary, in the Supreme Court today, in sentencing Sydney W’hakataka, aged 27, a labourer, to 12 months’ reformative detention on each of three charges relating to the conspiracy of three men to secure- money by forging cheques. The terms are to be served concurrently. Whakataka had pleaded guilty on arraignment to conspiracy to commit forgery, and forgery and uttering. “Young Maoris do not seem to be able to withstand the temptation of the city and are very easily led in crime,'’ added His Honour. Statistics showed, he said, that although Maoris comprised only 6 per cent, of the population, the New Zealand gaol population was 25 per cent. Maori or part Maori. “It is not true to say that Maoris do not work, but it is becoming a matter of very great moment, this tendency of young men of your race to come to the cities and participate in crime.”
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Wanganui Chronicle, 6 May 1949, Page 6
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