INCIDENT AT OHOPPE
MAORI GIVEN ONE MONTH "It is not a man's place to knock any woman about" observed the in the prosecution of a middle-aged Maori # Tom Mahaki. for assault in the Whakatane police court last Tuesday when imposing a sentence of one month's imprisonment. According to the police the charge arose out of a family argument, when Mahaki's wife left him late one night with her six children and sought sanctuary with a neighbour Mrs Rua. Next day Mrs. Rua returned to Mahaki's whare for the purpose of collecting some of the children's clothes. Thereupon accused was alleged to have assaulted-her and eventually thrown her out gf the house. The police were then communicated with. Sergeant Farrell said that Mahaki; was a good and though he had had previous convictions they occurred' a long time ago. Since then he had behaved himself well, and the police were not pressing for a long sentence. * Accused who pleadad guilty was; then sentenced as above.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 45, 2 February 1945, Page 4
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164INCIDENT AT OHOPPE Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 45, 2 February 1945, Page 4
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