Whakatane Maori’s Offences
That he wished to take the lorry home to Waiohau so that he might convey his wife and family to Whakatane for Christmas was an excuse tendered by a Maori when lie was questioned recently concerning the im~ lawful conversion of a motor lorry from Whakatane. The accused, who was arrested following an accident at Awakeri, was a labourer. Teroiki Rikiriki, and he pleaded guilty to three counts when he appeared on Tuesday before Messrs. Brabant and Schofield. J.Ps., in the Whakatane Police Court. For being intoxicated while in charge of the lorry he w:r convicted and fined £25, for unlawfully converting to his own use a
motor lorry valued at £l9O, the properly of William McCauley, he was convicted and fined £5, and for operating the vehicle without a driving license he was convicted and fined £1 Rikiriki was ordered to pay costs totalling £3, and given two weeks in which to meet the fines and expenses
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20131, 28 December 1939, Page 8
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161Whakatane Maori’s Offences Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20131, 28 December 1939, Page 8
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