JURY OF MAORIS
APPLICATION TO COURT
COMING GISBORNE TRIAL
Application has been made to the registrar of the Supreme Court at Gisborne to have a jury of Maoris empanelled during the session at the end of this month, states the Gisbprne correspondent of the v "New Zealand Herald." The application has been made on behalf of Joe Douglas, aged 31, of Wairoa, who was.recently committed for trial at the Gisborne session of the Supreme Court.
The last occasion in .Gisborne on which there were members of the Native race on a jury was three years ago, and then only three were empanelled. It is understood that there may be a full list of twelve Maori jurors hearing the present case. The section dealing with the question is 144 of the Juries Act, 1908, which provides that where a Maori is committed for trial in any Court for an offence against a Maori, the accused may give notice to the committing magistrate or justice at the time of commitment, or to the registrar or clerk of the Court of trial, at any time not less than seven days before the trial, that he claims to be tried by a Maori jury and in such case he shall be tried by such jury accordingly.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 34, 10 February 1939, Page 10
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