TUAKAU.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 6, Issue 309, 11 September 1917, Page 4

TUAKAU.

| At tho election on Wednesday last of a new member to till the seat on j the Tuakau Town Board rendered j necessary by tho resignation of Mr W. G. Graham, Mr W. J. Deeble i securod 70 votes anil Mr James Hendsrson 50, and tho former was accordingly declared elected. A blissful ignorance of his doings was pleaded by a Maori named Rirnu Taupo last Thursday when charged r at the Pukokohe Police Court with j having used obscene language at \ Tuakau on the previous day. Ac--1 cording to Constable Taylor the dej fendant had to bo ejected from a j restaurant and he then made use of I indecent words in the street. Tho : Maori said ho had no remembrance I of what had happened and to Jthe | amusement of the public in Court lie i proceeded as follows : '• Pi gorrv, me was wore, we;a drunk i't gorry, . me wake up ffotii .ilwp, and l.urro, l me find n.ysolf in th.< dm re here- ! hero (lock-iiui"'. A line of X. 1 and ! costs 7s was im;> >'>e 1. i In n urii.ds'-ii ii'i'ika Pakokawa |iib>iiir<'r FiMMioi bb ink Grundherg i-imlc ;i hoiv! hit » Mi" Tuikau picture rheatio on \Y\\ims.i.iy ; Angus' •_".»tli, and as a ho was on Tours-lay last a! tic Pukckohe Court lino I i':; and I Is lid i'osH on a charge of diMiikcuiiev. iiie lagisfrato uVlr E. JUawson, S.M ' ('..anniented on tho fact that the audience might have been seriously injured by the defendant's foolish conduct