FRACAS AT PA.
MAORI BROTHERS IN COURT. Per Press Association. DUNEDIN. Aug. 10.' As a result of a fracas between two brothers at the Maori pa at Moeraki, on July 2, Ira Panapa Porete, who was nursing a broken left arm, was charged at the Palmerston Police Court to-day with doing grievous bodily harm to his brother Paane Porete, who had two fingers nearly severed and was severely wounded in the head. Mr H. W. Bundle, S.M., was on tho Bench. The quarrel was the result of accused’s housekeeper, Mrs Eva May Johnston, widow, changing her quarters to accused’s brother’s house, to where she had her furniture removed from accused’s house. Accused went to the house of his brother where, he said, the latter fired-a shotgun at him. Paane Porete said lie went outside, where accused attacked him with a gorse slasher and said. 111 murder you.” , Accused pleaded not guilty, and was committed to the Supreme Court for trial, bail being allowed in self £250.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 215, 11 August 1937, Page 2
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