OBJECTION TO TREATMENT

Hawera Star, Volume LII, 28 July 1932, Page 7

OBJECTION TO TREATMENT

MAORI LEAVES. HOSPITAL,

COURT ORDERS DETENTION

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) WAINGANUI, July 28.. An unusual charge under the Social Hygiene Act 1917, was heard before the magistrate, Mr. J. H. Shimon, his morning against a young Maori from upriver. It is a well-known fact that the Health Department has been concerned for sometime at the spread of venereal disease among .the Maoris and has been doing its utmost to get the patients to .submit themselves for treatment. In the. present case the accused came to the hospital for treatment, but rail away after two injections were made luring the treatment. The evidence disclosed 1 a serious state of affairs and led the magistrate to remark it was no ■'.se saying anything to the accused •limit the enormity of the affair as v© appeared to he unintelligent. Senior Sergeant McLean said the Maoris were defying the. authorities. In ordering the accused to be detain•>6 for 12 months the magistrate said V© could assure the authorities that q-lwire action in these cases was justiwrj p© would support them to the utmost.