POSSESSION OF FIREARM
POROPORO MAORI PROSECUTED
WAR TROPHY CONFISCATED
The fact that a Maori boy was seen to be wearing in his belt an American service revolver at Poroporo led to the prosecution of William Ranapia in the Whakatane Court yesterday ,# for possessing an unregistered firearm in contravention of the ‘Arms Act.’
Sergeant Farrell said that the weapon had been brought back from the war by a relative of the accused who had given it to him. Accused came of quite a respectable family. Fined 20s and costs 225.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 76, 22 January 1947, Page 5
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89POSSESSION OF FIREARM Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 76, 22 January 1947, Page 5
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