CRIMES COMMITTED BY MAORIS
COMMENT BY MR JUSTICE BLAIR (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Jan. 21. OF nine prisoners for sentence to-day five were .Maoris, said Mr Justice Blair in the Supreme Court. That was a very distressing thing. “You spend far too much money and when that’s gone you go out and commit a crime," said his Honour. “This ca’endar is not, of course, typical, with more than half the prisoners Maoris, but the proportion of Maoris committing crimes to-day is far too high altogether. Members of your race used to give the police very little-trouble and took considerable pride in that fact.”
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25089, 22 January 1947, Page 3
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