WATCH STOLEN
LOCAL MAORI SENTENCED
TiIKFT FKOM MATK, Though he strenuously denied any intention to steal, staying thiat he merely had the watch repaired in order to give it back to its rightful owner Dick Hoko, who appeared in the Whakatane Court last Tuesday in.answer to a charge of theft, was sentenced to one month's imprison- . me lit. Tlie watch concerned was valued at £(i 1 r>s and was I lie property ol Johnston Savage, a mate of ll.e ac r eased who went with him to Rotoraa on December Hast.
Hoko described how lie had picked up the watch after lie had tramped on it in a scuttle and had taken it to a jeweller Avith tlie. intention ol" returning it when it was, mended.
"He had plenty of opportunities ol' informing Savage of its: whereabouts.," said Sergeant Farrell who prosecuted. ''He was: actually .living with him and yet he never mentioned it."
The magistrate, Mr E. L. Walton, took one look at Hoko's police record and sentenced. him to a month's imprisonment.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 48, 11 February 1944, Page 5
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174WATCH STOLEN Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 48, 11 February 1944, Page 5
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