BROKE WIFE’S NOSE AND THREE RIBS
Workman Fined For Assault
(New Zealana Press Association) GISBORNE, May 1. Coming home from a wedding party where he had consumed “a small quantity of beer,” Matiu Pako, aged 44, workman, of Hicks Bay, discovered that his wife was not at home. He later found her sleeping in another man's pyjamas, and assaulted her to such an extent that she had to be taken to Te Puia Hospital with a broken nose and three broken ribs. Pako pleaded guilty to the charge of assault and was convicted and fined £5, with costs 30s by Mr L. N. Ritchie, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court at Ruatoria.
The Magistrate said: “You just can not beat a woman, even if she had committed adultery, and from what you have told me. she has not.”
When the Magistrate asked the wife of the accused if she was willing to return to her husband and their nine children she replied “no” and added she was afraid of him.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29193, 2 May 1960, Page 12
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