A FREE-FOR-ALL

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 16, 18 July 1936, Page 11

A FREE-FOR-ALL

MONEY AND LIQUOR

COUNTRY TOWN FRACAS

(By Telegraph—l'ress Association.)

WHANGAREI, This Day.

A sequel to a fracas outside the Kaeo Hotel on June 11, when Maoris who had just received Native Department unemployment contract money engaged in a free-for-all fight, Avas heard in the AVhangaroa Court this week. Five Maoris were fined £3 each and costs for fighting while drunk.

Mr. M. R. Findlay,- for the Native Department, said that waste by a section of the Maoris of money paid to tide them over the difficult part of the year and provide them with food and clothing was becoming a difficult problem for the Department.

Shepherd Hona was sentenced to a week's imprisonment for assaulting when drunk an elderly man named Poland, Hauraki Daniels was fined £10 for assault^ and Kawhiri Brown was fined £10 and had his licence cancelled for two years for intoxication while in charge of a lorry. George Stevens Knightly was fined £10 for supplying liquor to a female Maori. H. A. Bainbridge, licensee of the Kaeo Hotel,, was fined £7 10s, and "had his licence endorsed for selling liquor after hours, and was fined £2 for selling liquor to a Maori for consumption on the premises. Six Europeans were fined £1 each for being on the premises after" hours, and a woman was convicted on a charge for the same offence. *