VALUE OF MAORI EVIDENCE.
BPECIAL TRIBUNAL FOB native casks advocated. -j
ME PBEBB ASSOCIATION, Auckland, May 80. At the Supreme Court, during'tlw ,_ - earrog of a charge of assault on a 1 Maori girl by a Maori, in which then was great oonfliot between the state. "=| ments of witnesses for the Crown and the defenoe, counsel for the defenoe suggested that Maoris, with the in> ffl ducement of a trip from the country to ' a large centre with all expensea £»id, might give false evidence for the like 6f the trip. He aaid it would be bettafc * if all cases against Maoris were toard where the offence oocnrred.' Judge Edwards said the best tribunal tJbst could deal with such Maori Miei 1 would be a Maori committee. Suoh a v committee would know quite well wliioh party was lying, and sooh l body would be better in every way*
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8123, 31 May 1906, Page 2
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148VALUE OF MAORI EVIDENCE. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8123, 31 May 1906, Page 2
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