A MAORI TOHUNGA
AND HIS ESCAPADES.
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) PALMERJSTON N., Last Night. Mr Thompson, S.M., iwas occupied td-day with cases relating to a Maori tobunga named Haiiigawata Tuparoa, wbo was> recently arrested at Master•tan. In the first case, W. J. White, licensee ©f .Wbite's Hotel at <Foxton,, and Mi's Campbell, manager, were 'charged with .supplying Hangawatn with liquor not for consumption on the premises'. It -was shown t'hat Mrs Campbell ■supplied the liquor during thei absence of WUiite, who was not living at the hotel. She was fined £5 on. each of the charges, with oostte £2- 17.S 6d. Judgment was- reserved in' the case against White on fa point raised iby counsel (Mr Linos) that he had not authorised the sale. Hangawata Tuparoa was then ehariged wiDh criminally assaulting Emily Heta, :a Maori ,giirl aged 16, and on six other charges of faking liquor into the iMotuiti Pah, and supplying Natives with liquor. The case is still proceeding. There are a large number of witnesses, and great interest has [been aroused among the Natiyes.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10689, 16 July 1912, Page 5
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176A MAORI TOHUNGA Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10689, 16 July 1912, Page 5
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