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MAORIS BEFORE COURT

INCIDENT ON SATURDAY NIGHT. FINE OF £3 IMPOSED William Waipuka, a Maori youth, was fined £3 on a charge of casting offensive matter in Queen Street on Saturday night when he appeared before Mr L. J. Taylor, J.P., in the Masterton Magistrate’s Court this morning. On charge of drunkenness'Waipuka was convicted and discharged.

Senior Sergeant C. Murphy said that the case was a serious one. On Saturday night at 7.30 o’clock he was standing outside the police station when he heard a man shouting out in Queen Street. Accompanied by Constable McCallum he went to Queen Street and found the defendant outside a grocery store shouting at the top of his voice using bad language regarding visiting service men.

In reply to the Bench Waipuka said his friend had been assaulted by a visiting service man. Mr Taylor said it was a serious offence and one that was hard to detect. He warned defendant that he could not go native as he had done. Another Maori, a first offender, was convicted and discharged on a charge of drunkenness.

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Ngā taipitopito pukapuka

Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 May 1943, Page 2

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Tapeke kupu
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MAORIS BEFORE COURT Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 May 1943, Page 2

MAORIS BEFORE COURT Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 May 1943, Page 2

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