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MAORI CAUGHT STEALING BREAD
AN OLD OFFENDER (By Telegraph—Press Association) HAWERA, This Day. Having been caught in the act of stealing a loaf of bread from Normanby bakehouse at about noon yesterday, Billy Kapa, a Maori, was chased half a mile down a back road before Constable Pidgeon managed to catch up to him. Kapa on being accused for theft refused to accompany the constable and said: “It’s you and I for it.” Then for fully half an hour the constable had a desperate struggle on the roadside with the man before he could be handcuffed. This morning Kapa, who has had 35 convictions since 1911, including several for violently resisting the police, was fined £lO in default two months’ imprisonment for resisting arrest and was convicted and discharged for the theft of bread. He consented to take out a prohibition order for 12 months.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 7 January 1931, Page 4
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