"BORROWED" CARS
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Maori Committed For Sentence
(By Telegrapl
HAMILTON, Last Night. What was described as "an orgy of car stealing' ' had a sequel in the Hamilton Magistriate's Court to-day when a Maori labourer, Hapi Atutahi, aged 24 years, was committed to the Supreme Court at Auckland for sentence on five charges of car conversion and one of breaking and entering. On two of the eharges of theft the accused was convicted and sentenced to gaol for three months with hard labour on each charge, the sentences to be cumulative. Atutahi was arrested on the hills behind Napier and was convicted in the Magistrate's Court there on a car conversion charge and two charges of theft. He w.as sentenced to gaol for three months with hard labour on the conversion charges and to gaol for one month with hard labour on each of the theft charges, the sentences to be cumulative. It was poiuted out by Deteetive White tnat the prisoner was sentenced in February of last year for car conversion. He was sentenced to refor_ mative detention for two years. He was discharged on license on May 11 and five days later began his latest orgy of car stealing. "He came out much too soon," commented the Magistrate, Mr. S. L. Pat. terson.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 133, 22 June 1937, Page 7
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