MAORIS AND P.N's.
INTERESTING APPEAL CASE.
| lIY TKI,K<;HAI'II. ru!-:s.< ASSOC IA THIN 1 Auckland, This Day.
The Bills of Exchange Act provides that a promissory note signed by a Maori is invalid, unless it is made out in tho Maori language, or bears a Maori translation on the back/"""S«wu» time ago a Dargaville Magistrate, Mr Scott Smith, gave judgment in a case of this sort for the defendant, a halfcaste woman. Yesterday Judge Edwards, holding that a half caste was not a Maori, up-held an appeal.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 312, 16 November 1910, Page 5
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