WAIROA COURT CASES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 18285, 22 December 1919, Page 6

WAIROA COURT CASES.

A MANSLAUGHTER CHARGE. [Per Press Association.] WAIROA, December 20. At the Magistrate’s Court to-day, the Magistrate dismissed one case against Howard Nattrass, of Wellington, charged with an offence against the Animals’ Protection Act. The Magistrate held that the Governor’s Proclamation was only operative one season, and that there must be an annual notification in a i>aper circulating in the district. Nattrasswas convicted on two other charges of killing pigeons, the fines and costs totalling over £25. Yesterday Paul To Urupu was committed for trial on a charge of manslaughter, in connection with the death of a Native girl, Kahu Pomare, on Wairoa-Turiro Road on November 6. The girl was knocked down by a motorcar, it being alleged that the driver was under tho influence of liquor, and did not sound the horn. A large number of breaches of tho liquor law was dealt with, heavy fines being imposed in most cases. In one case—a charge of taking liquor to a Maori settlement—judgment waa renerved, as tho Btatut-s* gives Tfti* 6*6 V4* tiem o| the wqxd . J