LAWLESS MAORIS.
LARGE NUMBER IN GAOL. MAGISTRATE’S COMMENT. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Friday. The fact that too many Maoris from the porth were getting into trouble was commented on toy Mr F. K. Hunt, S.M., in the Police Court this morning when William George Cook, a Maori, aged 37, pleaded guilty to charges of drunkenness, assault and using obscene language. Mr Hunt also expressed surprise at the large number of native prisoners at Mount Eden gaol. The police said the accused while drunk used insulting language to a Maori girl. A number of Maoris were in Auckland as Supreme Court witnesses, stopping at a hostel and when the custodian of the hostel w’as sent for Cook asaulted him, later being arrested. Accused was fined £5 or one month’s imprisonment.
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Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19880, 8 May 1936, Page 8
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129LAWLESS MAORIS. Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19880, 8 May 1936, Page 8
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