THE WHANGAREI COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 218, 12 September 1923, Page 5

THE WHANGAREI COURT.

PROCURING LIQUOR. DETERRENT TO MAORIS. ; (Dy Telegraph.—Own Correspondent/) WHANGABEI, this day. As a deterrent to Maoris in the Xortli procuring liquor off licensed premises fines on conviction are being steadily increased. Before Mr. R. W. Tate, S.M., at the Whangarei Magistrate's Conrt, Tommy Pirihi was charged with aidin" , and abetting the supply of liquor to a, Maori at Portland. In this case a parcel of beer had been placed on a seat in a. railway carriage. Accused was observed by a police constable on the train to take the parcel. Pirihi was lined £20 and ordered to pay costs. Harry Mick, a Nine Islander, was associated with the previous case on a charge of supplying liquor. The case against him was dismissed without prejudice. I'hillip Thomas Profner and a juvenile whoso name was ordered to be suppressed were charged with having stolen .>4lb of jrum, of the value of £."> 1 ,T, from the Whnngarei railway station. Profner was sentenced to three years' reformative treatment, while the juvenile was ordered to be sent to the Auckland Probation Home. Arthur Watson Green appeared on three charges of drunkenness and breach, of a prohibition order, also to answer a charge of having used obscene language. <'n the obscene language charge only he was fined £ 10. Richard Leahy, who failed to appear on an obscene language charge, had a warrant issued for his arrest. Percy Reginald Maddick appeared on a charge, of carnally knowing a girl under 16, and was remanded to appear at Auckland on the ISth September.