QUARREL IN STREET.
TWO GI.RLS CONVICTED,
T,wo Maori domestic servants, Lucy Tupora, aged 20, and Iha Howe, alias Hau, aged 25, were charged in the Police Court this morning with fighting in Victoria Street on v Saturday.. Counsel eaid that both pleaded not guilty, but admitted the facts. The elder girl was looking after the younger, whom she was talking to a strange man in Hobson Street. In trying to get the younger girl away, she struck her. The other retaliated. The man to whom the girl was talking was a plain-clothes policeman, who gave evidence that he saw the girl .come out of a restaurant. She was crying and witness asked, her, what was her trouble. The other girl then came along and struck the girl to whom witness was talking. . A quarrel followed. Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., convicted and discharged both accused.'
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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 283, 30 November 1931, Page 10
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