MAORI KNOCKED DOWN
AMERICAN HOSTILITY ASSAULT NEAR POST OFFICE John Edward Kelly, and American, aged 28, knocked a Maori down outside the Post Office last evening. Kelly pleaded not guilty at the Police Court to-day to a charge of assaulting George Poa. The complainant said that he spoke to accused outside the Post Office, and without warning he was “smacked on the nose.” Sub-Inspector McCarthy said that Kelly had been giving demonstrations of weight-lifting at Waihi. Th© Magistrate, Mr. F. K. Hunt: We don't want this other kind of demon - stration. Kelly was lined £l.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 376, 9 June 1928, Page 5
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