PERJURY ADMITTED

Hokitika Guardian, 9 August 1930, Page 5

PERJURY ADMITTED

BY A MAORI. I? [By Telegraph, Per Praaa Association.] i, , J NEW PLYMOUTH, Aug. B.J Perjury ,wae admitted by Pagerori AVaiiti, known as Ted White, whim" he was oharged on two counts before Justices at the /Police Court at Waitara. He. was,, committed for sentence to ■ the Supreme Court. Bail was . allowed. White, a Pukearuhe native, committed the offerees during liis appearance ph . judgment summons proceedings, before .Mr Rl W. Tate, S.M., at Waitara, the charges that, being witness on June 6 he gave evidence on oath in open court' that lie Had not driven hisjear: for six months arid that- he ...was . not , aCStraford races lin Januaryjjl93o,[ Rgch laSSertioiri beiijg known by - him( s to be , falsfe, and intended to . mislead the :Oourt ; that'on , July 4, lie committed perjury by fairly swearing. “I . did :not-drive ,my car ■through Urenui on May'2sth/last.:4 : i am sure it is mpre than three monjtjis since.?l [drove/:the 'carl 1 I was."not [at the Strqtford . races ip January, 1930. I did not draw 1 a dividend on Monsogne, I was last there when Grand Lupin won.”; Thesev statements were made during a further hearing of the judgment summons.