VERY FOOLISH.
SAID MAGISTRATE. BUT GIVEN A CHANCE. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) NEW PLYMOUTH, Monday. "You were very foolish to take liquor and get into the company of loose white women, but I want to give you a chance," eald Mr. W. H. Woodward, S.M., in the New Plymouth Police Court to-day, when sentencing Mason Meihana Makatanara, a half - caste Maori, aged 22, who admitted intoxication while in charge of a car. A second charge of assaulting Nola Joan Tito, a European living apart from her h'usband, was withdrawn by the police. Besides having Lis driver's license cancelled for 12 months Makitanara was ordered to take out a prohibition order; 9b igM admitted to probation.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 31, 7 February 1939, Page 10
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114VERY FOOLISH. Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 31, 7 February 1939, Page 10
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