COURT SENTENCES TWO MAORIS
(P.A.) AUCKLAND. Oct. 1. "It was a very bad thing to c!o but the probation officer says you are fond of your baby and wiill look alter it well if the Court grants you freedom.” said Mr. Justice Fair in ice Supreme Court when Ngatai Maaka came up] for sentence lor unlawfully abandoning a child under two years. The accused was admitted lo proba- I ation for three years, conditional on j remaining three months in a Salva- 1 tion Army Hostel. A smartlv dressed 22-year-old Maori ] Daisy Rangeinoa Mildred Davis, was I sentenced to two years' reformative j detention and ordered to return stolen I property. The accused nad admitted ] charges of breaking and entering and theft.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22757, 1 October 1948, Page 8
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122COURT SENTENCES TWO MAORIS Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22757, 1 October 1948, Page 8
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