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CONSTABLE AND MAORI. Telegraph—Per Press Association HAMER A, January 6. Having been caught in tho act of stealing a loaf ot bread from Normandy bakehouse about noon yesterday, Billy Kapa. a. Maori, was chased half a mile down a back road before Constable Padgeon managed to catch up to him.
Kapa on being accused of the theft refused to accompany the Constable and said —“It’s you or t for it.” Then for fully half an hour the Constable had a desperate struggle on the roadside with the man before lie could be handcuffed.
This morning, Rapa, who has had 35 convictions since, 1911, including several for violently resisting the police was fined 1210, in default two months for resisting arrest, and convicted and discharged for the theft of the bread.
He consented to take out a prohibition order lor L2 months.
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Hokitika Guardian, 6 January 1931, Page 5
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