MAORIS MIX THINGS
LIVELY TRAIN JOURNEY GUARD SORTS THEM OUT (Special to THE SUN) P AERO A, Thursday. Maoris travelling by train to Thames recently made things lively for other passengers, and from a general fight the guard managed to sort out three natives to face the magistrate. Kori Apirahama, Morehau and Taupaki were charged in the Police Court to-day with using improper language, disorderly conduct while intoxicate* l. and damaging the window of a railway carriage. Evidence was given that on an evening train to Thames recently a dispute arose in a carriage occupied by Maoris, owing to Morehau trying to forcibly eject his wife from the train at Te Aroha. Apirahama rushed to the woman’s assistance, and a fierce fight ensued between several natives of both sexes. The guard, C. Kane, said that he found Apirahama on the floor underneath several natives, one of whom. Taupaki, was hitting Apirahama’s face with both his fists. Apirahama broka window in the course of his struggles.
The magistrate, Mr. F. W. Platts. S.M., sentenced Apirahama to six weeks’ imprisonment. Taupaki was fined £5, or one month’s imprisonment, for fighting. Morehau was fined £3 and- costs for disorderly conduct, and £2 and costs for the use of insulting language.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 453, 7 September 1928, Page 7
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