BETTER HOUSING URGED AS SOLUTION
JUDGE COMMENTS ON MAORI’S OFFENCE (PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) HAMILTON. February 4. “I think the only solution to this problem is better housing fur the Maoris.” said his Honour Mr Justice Johnson in the Supreme Court to-day. in discussing with counsel the moral standards of the Maoris, when John Henry, aged 33, a labourer, appeared for sentence on a charge of carnal knowledge. His Honour thought the conditions under which the Maoris lived tended to accentuate these offences. Counsel said that it was a notorious fact that the moral conditions under which present-day Maoris lived excited the tendency to commit these offences, which had become only too prevalent. The prisoner was only accepting the moral standards of his community. In sentencing the prisoner to six months’ imprisonment, his Honour said that the Maoris must have some deterrent; they must understand the serious nature of this crime, from which young girls must be protected, whether Maori or European. He could not believe that respectable Maori? did not want their children to be protected. ■
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22319, 5 February 1938, Page 21
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