FRACAS AMONG MAORIS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 196, 20 July 1936, Page 11

FRACAS AMONG MAORIS.

SEQUEL IN COURT. Per Press Association. WHANGAREI, July 18. The sequel to a fracas outside the Kaeo Hotel on June 11, when Maoris who had .just received their Native Department unemployment contract money engaged in a free-for-all fight, was heard in the Wlmngaroa Court this week. Five of the Maoris were each fined £3 and costs for fighting while drunk. Mr Findlay, for the Native Department. said the waste by a section of the 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. Shepherd Hona was sentenced to a week’s gaol for assaulting, when drunk, an elderly man named Poland. Jt a lira ki Daniels was fined £lO for assaulting his sister, and Kawhiri’s license was cancelled for two years for being in a state of intoxication while in charge of a lorry. George 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 liis license was endorsed for selling liquor after hours, and £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 on a charge for the same offence.