j Charged with assaulting a 20-year-old Maori woman at Waima by taking her by the throat and punching her twice on the head, a Maori youth, Hoi’i Warohenga Hiroki, aged 21, was lined £3 recently by Messrs. J. B. Stafford and H. H. Faii'lie, J'.'Ps., in the Tokomaru Bay Police Court. The ease was conducted by Constable R. j Beasley, who said he had received a ! complaint from the injured woman and had questioned the accused, fini ally arresting him. Hiroki had entered ! the woman’s house and forced his way | into her bedroom. She had told him i to leave the house, but he refused. ! Hiroki had had some drink, but he j was not drunk.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20112, 5 December 1939, Page 6
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