SEARCH FOR DEFAULTING MAORIS
By Telegraph-Press Association Auckland, August 19 On Saturday a party of police visited a Maori i>« at Mercer, with the in'.o.wlio'.i of r.ppreiiundiii'! Maoris who had failed to pa'ade for medical examination. Before the "isit of the police a large party of Maoris of apparently miliary were scon 1:> board a launch and proceed down '.he Waikalo River. The police a: i.iie pa questioned a number r,f men of military age, three of whom refused to give their names, and tliev were arrested Subsequently they wero convicted and lined .til each, and their names were then torliieo'.Hing. One n them was found to lie wanted 'by the military e.u-it-orifies as a dcl'siullor, nnd after paying the fine was again arrested. Four other Maoris also found in the. pa were arrested, but they refused to ] walk, and were carried out ol' (he pa. Tliev were taken to 'lie railway .-Nation in a motor-ear anil I hence to \ ti..-!; I:>.in-. and handed over to the military autl'iirities.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 284, 20 August 1918, Page 7
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169SEARCH FOR DEFAULTING MAORIS Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 284, 20 August 1918, Page 7
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