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New Zealand’s first white collar criminal

Offending described as ‘unparalleled in the history of the Australian colonies’ exposed weaknesses in New Zealand’s early criminal law.

Wellington as depicted by Charles Heaphy around the time William Waring Taylor arrived in early 1842.

Tim Hunter Sun, 05 Jan 2025

When he emerged from Hokitika jail in 1888 he was described in the New Zealand Police Gazette as five feet five inches tall, with blue eyes, grey hair, and a pale complexion. His sentence of five years penal servitude, of which he served just three, was for “misappropriation as a

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Tim Hunter Sun, 05 Jan 2025
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