TE HAURANGI'S "LUCKY" DAY

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 283, 19 August 1918, Page 6

TE HAURANGI'S "LUCKY" DAY

—q _ A "DOUBLE" AND k SENTENCE. An elderly Native named Te Haurangi (47), who came before Mr. 11.I 1 . K. Hunt, S.M., at Auckland on Friday (says tho "Star"), on about a dozen charges of theft from shops in Queen Street and Karangahape Road, which he cheerfully admitted, is trying to puzzle out whether or not the fateful Thursday was his lucky day. Ho had worked shopfronts of the city for sovoral weeks, and had successfully collected, on various occasions, five overcoats, two , pairs of boots, two umbrollas three hats, a pair of trousers and two peenstoao meres, which he sold in different socondhand shops. On Thursday, acoording to his own story, he had struck a "dnuulo" of .280 (for 55.) at tho Christchuroh races, bnt before he had time to collect his dividend he was rounded -up by Fli)''nelothos Constable Knight, who had been on tho track of the stolon goods, and bad traced thefts to TCaurangi. The prisoner, when brought before the Court on Friday, admitted all tho thofts.

Senior-Sergeant M'N.imara stnted that the m_an had got out of prison on license nt the , beginning of June, after having served half of a term of three years' reformatory detention for n previous scries of theft. To Hanrnngi was sentenced to six months' hard labour, to be followed by threo yenrs' reformatory detention, and on tho way from Court to gnol bo prosecuted earnest inquiries about> how bo could collect his i'DO dividend immediately, for he had his doubts about being able to collect it at the end of his term.