FINE OF £10 IMPOSED
MAORI GIRL GIVEN LIQUOR
COURT SEQUEL TO PARTY
O.C. KAITAIA, this day. "The younger the girls and the older the men the more serious is the charge in a case of this nature," said Mr. W. C. Harley in the Kaitaia Magistrate's Court when Nicholas Kovich, aged 29, gumdigger and tractor driver, was fined £10 for supplying liquor to a Maori girl of 18. A second charge was withdrawn. The evidence showed that Kovich rtook four girls employed on the domestic staff of the Kaitaia Hospital to Ahipara, where, at their , own request, the two eldest girls were supplied with two bottles of wine procured by Kovich at a Dalmatian's bach. When the two younger girls rejoined the party they found the other girls under the influence of' liquor, although Kovich was all right. A constable said that late the same night he was called to a disturbance at the Kaitaia taxi station, where he one girl under the influence of liquor. Taken to the police station she' made allegations against the accused. ,'\
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXVI, Issue 38, 14 February 1945, Page 3
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