MANY CONVICTIONS
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Rarotongan's False Representations
(By Telegraph-
AUCKLAND, This Day. Stated by the police to have 56 previous convictions, Joseph Tainui, a Rarotongan labourer and musician, aged 42, was sentenced to two months' imprisonment- in the Police Court today for obtaining £1 10/- in cash and groceries valued at 7/3, by falsely representing that he was employed by the Union Steamship Company. The police said that Tainui told a grocer that his wife and family Were starving, and he obtained groceries and money to redeem a guitar which he said was in pawn. He was not living with his wifb or supporting his eight children. "I'ani afraid you are incorrigible," -said Mr Wyvern Wilson, S.M. "You seem to have spent half your time in gaol."-
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 158, 22 July 1937, Page 5
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