FURTHER REMAND

Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20495, 11 May 1938, Page 6

FURTHER REMAND

MAORI MARRIAGE CASE j Convicted in tlie Supreme Court, ! Hamilton, by a jury, who added a strong recommendation to mercy, on a j charge of unlawful carnal knowledge, George Kkctone Mr J. F. Strang), Maori labourer, of- Te Kauri, near Kaj whia, was yesterday remanded until j Friday to enable counsel to discover if means might be found to ensure that the chief parties to the offence could be kept apart without sending prisoner to gaol. From the evidence It seemed apparent that the parents of the girl In the case had pushed her on to the prisoner, said the Chief Justice, Sir Michael Myers. The parents had to understond, however, that they were living under the same criminal law as the pakeha. “ I do not want to send this man to prison if it can be avoided," said His Honour, " but I will not take a course which will allow him to return and begin the offence again." Some arrangement would have to be made to keep the two chief parties i apart, otherwise prisoner would have j to go to prison. | “ I think this is a matler for the I Child Welfare Department," concluded j His Honour," which must see that the law is abeyfU and that girls and boys are promoted against customs of this kind.”