MAORI BROTHERS

Grey River Argus, 11 August 1937, Page 5

MAORI BROTHERS

INJURED IN QUARREL. OVER HOUSEKEEPER’S CHANGE OF QUARTERS. DUNEDIN, August 10. As the result a fracas between two brothers at Moeraki on July 2, Ira Panapa Porete, who was, nursing a broken left arm, was charged at the Palmerston Police Court to-day with doing grievous bodily harm to his brother, Paane Reweti Moreno, who had two lingers nearly severed, and was severely wounded in the head. Mr. H. N. Bundle, S.M., was on the Bench. The quarrel was the result of the accused’s housekeeper, Eva May Johnston, a widow, changing her quarters to the accused’s ■ brother’s house, to where she had furniture removed from the accused’s house. The accused went to the house of his brother, where, he said, the latter fired a shotgun at him. Paane Porete said that he went outside, where the accused attacked him a gorse slasher, and said: “I’ll murder you!” The accused, pleading guilty, was committed to the Supremo Court for trial, bail in self, £250, being allowed.