CHINESE AND MAORI
A KITCHEN SQUABBLE. (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Feb. 25. A fine of £3, with costs £4/4/-, w<as imposed on a Chinese. Jim Yee, aged 19, (Mr Leary) in the Police Court on a charge of assaulting Wawe Tarau. a Maori. The charge was reduced from one of assault to causing actual bodily harm. Wawe Tarau, a labourer, of Paninura, said that on February he called at a Chinese restaurant in Albert Street, to see a girl distantly related to him, who was married to a Chinese. He asked for her, but the accused said she was out, and told him to go outside. Witness remained, and after a time, the accused called him into the kitchen. Witness went through the door, and the accused then suddenly stuck a fork into his thigh, saying: “I am not afraid of you!” Witness did not threaten accused, or use insulting language. After the evidence of accused and the proprietor of the restaurant had been heard, the Magistrate, Mr McKean said he thought the Maori had given some provocation, and that some kind of a struggle had ensued. He would take into account the fact that there had been some aggravation.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 26 February 1927, Page 5
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