YEAR’S JAIL FOR MAORI
By Telegraph—Press Association. Whakatane, March 31. Hira Mokai, a Maori, was this morning’ sentenced to 12 months’ imprisonment for being illegally ou premises by night. He left a dunce at. Poroporo ou the night of March 21 and entered the house of Jacob Hawera. He entered a girl’s bedroom. When the girl said she would call her brother, Mokai left, but threatened to come back.
The justice of the peace considered Mokai a menace and that the only thing was to send him to prison.
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 158, 1 April 1937, Page 13
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89YEAR’S JAIL FOR MAORI Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 158, 1 April 1937, Page 13
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