ASSAULT CHARGE
INCIDENT AT TANEATUA MAORI SENT TO GAOL Charged with assaulting JamesHay ward at Taneatua on June 28, Tai Hori, of Ruatoki, appeared at the Taneatua Court before Messrs Moody and Armstrong, J's.P., on Tuesday last, and was sentenced to 14 days in the Whakatane Police gaol. Hori pleaded guilty to the charge. Constable O. S. Rice stated that the offender had accosted Haywjlrd in the street on the night of the 28tli and asked him if he wanted a fight. He had then struck the young man on the jaw, knocking him out. Constable Rice regarded the offence as o serious one and sharing, his view, the Justices imposed the gaol sentence. Credit by Fraud. Last week Constable Rice arrested a native, Koro Rangihika, at Taneatua and charged him before Messrs Moody and Hayward, J's.P., with having obtained credit by fraud. Thei Maori, who pleaded guilty, had entered a dining room in the town, had a meal, and then left without paying. The offender was fined £2 with costs and ordered to 'pay the cosf of the meal..
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 128, 11 July 1941, Page 5
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180ASSAULT CHARGE Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 128, 11 July 1941, Page 5
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