ROW AT RAHOTU.
PAKEHAS AND MAORIS IN
CONFLICT.
BY TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION.
NEW PLYMOUTH, March 30. The Taranaki Herald's correspondent at Rahptu reports that a serious disturbance took place there on Thursday evening. Constable O'Neil was arresting a Maori named Billy Te Whiti, but he resisted and raised a war cry, which brought about seventy "Maoris to his rescue. O'Neil called on some whites for assistance, and for an hour a general fight was carried on between Maoris and about Half a dozen pakehas. Te Whiti got away and the fight subsided, -v.
Constable O'Neil has his eyes blacked and is badly bruised all over. A man named Edward Duggan had a thumb nearly bitten off, and Private "Willcox had his uniform nearly torn off his back. ..-*■■
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 30 March 1918, Page 7
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126ROW AT RAHOTU. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 30 March 1918, Page 7
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