TOOK CAR FROM GARAGE

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 933, 28 March 1930, Page 16

TOOK CAR FROM GARAGE

THREE MAORI YOUTHS IN TROUBLE From Our Own Correspondent DARGAVILLE, Thursday. Charged with being concerned in the theft of a motor-car valued at £IOO, the property of H. W. Page, also with the theft of benzine valued at 10s lOd, three young Maoris, named Jack Anania, Watakina Tohu and Marcel Welch, appeared before Mr. G. N. Morris. S.M., at the Dargaville Court today. Anania was also charged with driving a car without a licence. Sergeant Lapp stated that the car was taken from Page’s garage on Saturday night, and was driven to Kaihu. Anania drove the car. Arriving at Kaihu at night, they stayed there all next day and on Sunday evening Anania drove the car back to Dargaville, and the other two men walked back. It was admitted that the accused were drunk. Anania was out on probation and had just finished serving a term of 21 days in the Dargaville gao! for an offence committed during the period of his probation. Mr. Goulding, for accused, put in n plea for Anania on the grounds of his youth. The boys, he said, had taken the car from the front of the County Chambers. He suggested that accused be given a further chance. Anania was sentenced to two months’ imprisonment in Mount Eden Gaol for Laving broken his probation order, and one month for being in charge, of a car when drunk. Tohu was sentenced to one month in the Dargaville gaol and Welch was fined £ 2 and ordered to refund the cost of tho benzine.