CASE CONCLUDED
POST OFFICE BURGLARY MAORIS FOR SENTENCE At Rotorua, live Maoris were committed to the Supreme Court at Auckland for sentence for breaking and entering the Pacngaroa Post Office and stealing money, stamps and postal notes valued at £104. The accused were David Ashley, James Ashley, Charles' Asliley r "Wlll- - Ashley, and William Daniels. The police enquiries extended over three months and the accused were apprehended as far afield a*s Invercargill and Auckland. Evidence was given by Edna May .Wiltonspostmistress at Paengaroa, -who said she found the door had been forccd and the safe removed. Statements by the accused showed that the safe had been taken away in a car and hidden in scrub a short distance from the Okere Falls. The following day they had broken it open with a chisel and hcorner. Each got about 10s in cash The papers and stamps had been burned at their camp at Okere. All pleaded guilt}'.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 144, 8 April 1940, Page 5
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156CASE CONCLUDED Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 144, 8 April 1940, Page 5
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