PENALTY FOR MURDER
PRESENTMENT BY GRAND JURY CONCERN ABOUT LIQUOR IN MAORI PAS (New Zealand Press Association.) NEW PLYMOUTH, W The reinstatement of , caplta Lrnat ishment for murder and concer the fact that unlimited quantitiesi liquor might now be taken intoH pas were among the subjects <n P sentments "by the grand jury in . Supreme Court at New Plymouth w day. The presentments were:—; . “It is the unanimous opimon ot grand jury that the present pep . for the crime of murder is inaoeq as a deterrent and the is of the opinion that capital Pb® - ment for such a crime should oe instated. . / aC t "This grand jury deplores tne , that unlimited quantities of ajconj'. liquor may now be taken into w * pas. The jury believes that state of affairg is not in the best terests of the Maori race. ’ In his charge to the grand a charge of murder agaftist Matthews, a Maori. Mr J UB b®® JLatS ton had said it seemed unfaTtun that the crime alleged against . thews might have been the re *H 1 1 L w . recently introduced legislation ing liquor to be taken into Maori p««-
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25811, 24 May 1949, Page 4
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