FINES NOT SUFFICIENT
HOW do our lay-adjudicators in the persons of Justices of the Peace, hope to maintain an atmosphere of decency about the domestic quarters of the Whakatane Public Hospital, if when are: asked by Jthe police to teach a couple o$ delinquents caught red-handed on the premises, they are satisfied to inflict a fine which can be met out of a week's wages. Twelve months ago two Maoris were imprisoned for a similar offence for one month. Why then was the> penalty lightened on Monday, A fine is no punishment to the average Maori in these days of high wages, but the; one way to bring home to him a sense of guilt and tha seriousness of his offence is undoubtedly by incarceration. This -we feel should have been done in this instance* and we say it as a paper which our readers will admit has gone out of its way time: and again in the past to champion the Maori in every respect. We feel that we will be upholding our reputation by insisting on imprisonment without option, in all cases of this nature, where a serious lessor* needed. ' '
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 72, 14 May 1943, Page 4
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192FINES NOT SUFFICIENT Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 72, 14 May 1943, Page 4
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