MAORI FINED

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20568, 30 May 1941, Page 8

MAORI FINED

OBSCENE LANGUAGE WAIROA PROSECUTIONS failure to enrol (Special to tlio Herald.) WAIROA, this day. A statement that very often offenders using language of this nature, especially in front of women, were sent to gaol, was made by Mr. J. Miller, S.M., at the monthly sitting of the Wairoa .Magistrate’s Court when imposing a fine ol' £4 on Jacob Awarangi. aged 22, a Maori, who pleaded guilty to a charge of having used obscene language in Carroll, street. Mr. C. R. Sainsbury appeared for the accused.

Sergeant L. T. Moore tolcl the magistrate that this class of offence was very prevalent among the natives in the district.

Pleading not guilty to a charge of having been found on the licensed premises of the New Wairoa Hotel after hours, David Hair, a stock buyer, was given the benefit of the doubt by the magistrate, and the charge was dismissed. Mr. C. R. Sainsbury appeared for the defendant. Charged with failing to enrol in the First Division of the Genera! Reserve, Merle Innes Davis, aged 40, a labourer, was lined £4 and costs. Sergeant Moore said that the breach committed was more in ignorance than in defiance of the law. Liquor Law Breaches Jack Munro and Taahuri Newton were jointly charged with having liquor in their control in the vicinity of the Unity Hall at Nuhaka while a dance was in progress. Munro was fined £4 and costs and Newton was fined £2 and costs. • Newton was also charged with supplying liquor to Jack Munro, a Maori, for consumption off licensed premises, and was fined £1 and costs. Munro was further charged with aiding Newton in the supply of liquor to himself, a Maori, for consumption off licensed premises, and was fined £2 and costs. On a similar charge of having liquor in his control in the vicinity of a dance hall, Ben Huka was fined £4 and costs. He was further charged with aiding some person urtknown in supplying liquor to himseld, a Maori, for consumption off licensed premises, and was fined £2 and coses. Charged with supplying liquor to Heu I-leu Poutawa, a Maori, for consumption off licensed premises, John Arthur O’Connell, an old age pensioner, pleaded not guilty through Mr. F. H. Jones and was lined £1 and costs. Heu Heu Poutawa was charged v/ith procuring liquor during the currency of a prohibition order, and was fined £1 and costs. Traffic Breaches Charged on the information of the Transport Department’s inspector, Mr. D. B. Robertson, the following were dealt with:—James Patrick Blane, no warrant of fitness, fined £1 and costs; Francis Foley, failing to keep time books on a goods service vehicle, Hoed £1 and costs; F. Grant, being the driver of a goods-service vehicle did fail to enter the correct time ol: ending work in his driver’s time-book, fined £2 and costs; Aubrey Mayo, operating a heavy motor vehicle without first obtaining a heavy traffic license, fined £3 and costs; Munro Smith on a similar charge, fined £2 and costs, and for not having a warrant of fitness, fined £1 and costs. Ben Hawkins was charged with driving in River parade without due care and attentioon, and was fined £4 and costs. .