MAORI REMANDED.
WINDOW SMASHING CASE. (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, July 26. Charged with wilfully damaging three plate-glass windows, valued at £6O, at. Otahuhu, yesterday afternoon, Nganikara Hohepa Maaka, a Maori labourer, aged 44, appeared before the Magistrate’s Court at Auckland today. Sub-Inspector Fox, asking for a remand, said Maaka was seen going down the main street at Otahuhu waving a hammer. He smashed 12 windows. Attention was attracted by a passer-by, and later at the request of a constable be threw the hammer down and submitted to arrest. He seemed excited. There were no signs of drink. Two doctors certified him as mentally deficient, but when taken to the mental hospital the doctors there declined to admit him, although, ho had twice been an inmate of mental hospitals, having come out at his own request five weeks ago. Mr Wyvern Wilson, S.M., remanded Maaka to appear at Otahuhu next day, remarking that if in the meantime’ he showed signs of mental deficiency the Minister could obtain an order for a medical examination.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 57, Issue 244, 27 July 1937, Page 7
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172MAORI REMANDED. Ashburton Guardian, Volume 57, Issue 244, 27 July 1937, Page 7
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