ILLEGAL USE OF HORSE
For unlawfully converting to his own use a horse valued at £10 at Ruatori'a, Popata Te Kawa, aged 20, a soldier, was fined £5 by Mr. J. L. Stout, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court today, and he was convicted and discharged for stealing a bridle and saddle valued at £16, the property of G. Reedy, the owner of the horse. Senior-Sergeant G. J. Paine said that Te Kawa, while on leave at his home on the East Coast, went with others to Ruatoria and missed the bus home. They took a shepherd's horse they saw there and rode home on it. They hid the saddle and bridle in some gorse. All the property "had been recovered. Mr. G. I. Joseph said that five Maori soldiers had ridden home on the horse two at a time, one returning for another. They knew the horse would return home when they let it go.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 56, 3 September 1943, Page 3
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155ILLEGAL USE OF HORSE Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 56, 3 September 1943, Page 3
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