"VERITABLE OUTLAW"
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Maori Woman Chased Sur- . veyor with ■ Slashe? LED POLICE A LONG CHASE
(By Telettraph-
WHANGAREI, L^st Night. Deseribed by the sergeant of police as "a veritable outlaw," who had kept the authorities at bay, a married Maori woman, Anna Marea Heke, appeared • in the Police Court at Kaitaia before Messrs T. S. Houston- and F. P. Row, J.P.'s, yesterday on a charge ,of pulling out and destroying survey pegs. The accused was arrested on Saturday after leading two constables a long chase in the back country at Hokianga Harbour. ' _ ' Sergeant J. Classen said that a sutveyor had been obliged to flee when Heke chased him with a slasher. The survey was completed under police protection.- Heke then pulled the pegs, burning them. Heke was eonvicted, sentenee- being deferred for a year. On a charge of unlawfully obi#ructing the free passage ' of people on a public road by tne erection of a wire fence, Heke, was "-eonvicted and discharged. f ^
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 46, 17 November 1937, Page 13
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163"VERITABLE OUTLAW" Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 46, 17 November 1937, Page 13
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