UNLAWFUL TRESPASS
YOUNG MAORI SENTENCED
RUATOKI 'GANGS' SKOUKL
A further member of the Ruatoki gangs which figured' prominently in the presfe Jast week, Stewart Tirohira appeared l before Messrs G. A. Brabantt and T. J. Cummings, J.P's, in the Whakatane Court yesterday on a charge of having been found, without any lawful right on the property of one Natuka Ata. Sergeant Farrell said that the incident occurred, on the night of February 3rd, at Ruatoki when accused broke into the house concerned, with other members of his gang and disturbed two young girls who were sleeping there, and behaved, in an unseemly manner. He was a member of the military forces and was also wanted by the authorities for being ab.sent without leave. Sergeant Farrell added that accused had sustained a wound, in his arm as a result of an accidental discharge of a firearm at. camp an,d had been granted leave as a result, which he had. long overstayed Sentenced to a month's impiisonment.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 52, 25 February 1944, Page 5
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165UNLAWFUL TRESPASS Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 52, 25 February 1944, Page 5
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