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MAORI DECIDES DIFFERENf WITH BUTT END OF CUE ASSAULT IN BILLIARD ROOJ "Heated differenees of opinion c6 cerning a game of > Kelly j, in a Rotorua billiard saloon on g. urday evening inspired a Maori na, ed Matenga Galvin to smite a patriot, Thomas Oneroa, over { head with' a billiard cue. The b! broke the cue and ended the arf ment so far as the game was cerned. But Oneroa's head | broken as well as the cue, his blaj torn and silk shirt covered in blo so Constable Kelly took his cue i entered the game with the result {9 Matenga appeared yesterday moiJ before Messrs. T. Sloane andt Richards, J.'sP. g Mr. Hampson appeared for accl ed and pleaded guilty. He, howetB asked for leniency in view of fl fact that Galvin was a married JB and a good worker. « The bench deeided not to sentrB him to imprisonment, but inflicf J fine of £2 for assault and £1 fl damage to Oneroa's clothes. He® also called upon to pay £1, tlie® of the broken cue, in default s® days' imprisonment. A week was® lowed to find the money. ®
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 149, 16 February 1932, Page 4
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192HEATED ARGUMENT Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 149, 16 February 1932, Page 4
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