INFANT ILLTREATED
MAORI SENT TO PRISON CHILD’S NOSE FRACTURED (PjU ■ AUCKLAND, May 26. . For wilfully ill-treating a child aged six months, Edward Gundry Wirepa, aged 23, a Maori, will spend six months in prison. In imposing this sentence today Mr. Justice Smith said this kind of offence must be severely discouraged. It was almost incredible that a person could treat an infant as this man had. The child’s nose was Broken and the child was sent to hospital.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22340, 27 May 1947, Page 7
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78INFANT ILLTREATED Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22340, 27 May 1947, Page 7
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