OBSTRUCTED POLICE.
MOST SERIOUS OFFENCE. # MAORI SENT TO PRISON*. » When a policeman was trying to arrest a drunken man in Hobson .Street last evening, a Maori friend of the drunken one tried to rescue liiin, and used obscene language. This morning the Maori, Terence Ros»ieur. was sentenced to 21 days' imprisonment on the charge of obstructing the police, and was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if called u]>on within one year on the charge of using obscene language. Obstructing the pulce. was a most serious offence, said Mr. R. Orr Walker. S.M. The policc had to be protected in the execution of their duty.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 45, 22 February 1940, Page 8
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107OBSTRUCTED POLICE. Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 45, 22 February 1940, Page 8
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