GLASS BROKEN.
MAORI CONVICTED.
Charged with doing mischief and with drunkenness, before Messrs. J. Laking and J. E. Green, J.P.'s, at the Onehunga Police Court this morning a Maori, Charlie Rewha, pleaded guilty and was fined 10/ and ordered to pay 10/ costs for the mischief and convicted and discharged on the second charge. Sergeant R. E. McGettigan said the accused went to a shop in Lower Queen Street, Onehunga, at 10.40 last night and asked to be supplied with cigarettes. When the proprietor, Mr. D. A. Cate, declined to serve him and shut the door the accused broke the glass panel in the door. In his explanation of his conduct Rewha said he was not annoyed because he was refused the cigarettes, but .because the proprietor referred in disrespectful terms to the colour of his skin and he pushed the door, causing his arm to go through the glass panel.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 193, 17 August 1939, Page 13
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151GLASS BROKEN. Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 193, 17 August 1939, Page 13
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