DANGER STRESSED
BY JUSTICES OF PEACE SPREAD OF DISEASE. MAORI GIRL SENTENCED TO IMPRISONMENT. On a charge of being idle and disorderly, without lawful means of support, a Maori girl, Margaret Kohai, aged 19 years, of Te Ore Ore, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment when she appeared before Messrs A. D. Low and W. G. Lamb, J’s.P., in the Masterton Court this morning. The Bench stressed the serious consequences of the association the girl had been having with service men regarding the spreading of venereal disease. Senior Sergeant C. Murphy said that Kohai was a full-blooded Maori and lived with an uncle and aunt at Te Ore Ore. Until recently she had been living with a Maori who had tried to commit suicide as he was jealous of the girl’s association with visiting service men. The man was admitted to hospital and was still an inmate. The girl had been sleeping out at nights and returned to her home in the mornings and then slept during the day. The girl admitted that she was suffering from venereal disease and that she had been associating with soldiers. Had she been charged under -the Social Hygiene Act she would have been liable to a fine of £lOO or 12 months’ imprisonment.
The girl had nothing to say and was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 April 1943, Page 2
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226DANGER STRESSED Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 April 1943, Page 2
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