HOTEL FRACAS
MAORIS &. EUROPEANS FINED (Per Press Association—Copyright). WHANGAREI, July 18. The sequel to a fracas outside the Kaeo Hotel June 11, when Maoris who had just received the Native Department unemployed contract money became, engaged in a free-for-all fight, wa s heard .in the Whangarei Court this week, when five Maoris were fined for fighting while drunk. Mr M. R. Findley, for the Native Department, said the waste by a section of Maoris of the money paid to tide them over the difficult part of the year and provide them with food and clothing, was becoming a difficult problem for the Department. Geotjge Stevens Knightly was fined £lO for supplying liquor to a female Maori. H.. A. Bainbridge, licensee of the Kaeo Hotel, was fined £7 10s and hi ß license was endorsed for selling after hours, and was also fined £2 for selling liquor to a Maori for consumption on the premises. Six Europeans were fined £1 each for being on the premises after hours, and a woman was convicted for ! the same offence.
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Hokitika Guardian, 20 July 1936, Page 5
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