STRUCK WARDER
PRISONER SENTENCED TO BREAD AND WATER. P.A. AUCKLAND, Dec. 13. For using personal violence on a warder at Auckland Prison, while an inmate of that institution, Frank Wereta, a Maori, was sentenced by Mr. A. M. Goulding, S.M-, to be fed on bread and water for fourteen days. The Superintendent of the Prison (Mr. W. T. Leggett) said that the. accused was working in the prison quarry when he was directed by a warder to a particular section of the quarry. He lost his temper and struck the officer. Forty or fifty othex- men witnessed the action which might have had much more serious consequences. The accused was serving a sentence fox- assault, causing bodily harm.
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Grey River Argus, 14 December 1943, Page 4
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118STRUCK WARDER Grey River Argus, 14 December 1943, Page 4
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