MAORIS AND LIQUOR

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 60, 3 June 1942, Page 5

MAORIS AND LIQUOR

MANY COURT CASES TWO PROHIBITION APPLICATIONS Toby Duncan in the Whakatane Court yesterday before Mr E. L. Walton, S.M., was ordered to pay costs totalling 20s on a charge of drunkenness* at Te Teko on March 28 last. Ruri Whenuakuha (Mr OtlejO pleaded guilty to assisting in the commission of a crime by procuring liquor from an unknown person without authority to do> so> on May 16. Fined 30s and costs 235. On a further charge) of procuring liquor during the currency of his prohibition oder defendant was fined a further 30s; tinier being alloAVed in which to pay. On a similar charge Ben Hona, who bolted when accosted by the policc on May 16 last was fined £3 audi costs 235. Archie Tahana who was found' at To Teko with a keg of beer in his car was fined £5 and costs; 275. Sergeant Farrell stated that when asked for an explanation defendant hadi declared that lie knew nothing of the beer, which must have been put in his car by mistake. At the instance of Constable Rice, two Taneatua Maoris', Peter T'epaine and Mike: Tiapira were prohibited in iheir own interests. Both, according to Constable Rice had substantial family responsibilities! and had recently figured in drunken fights.