BETTER HOUSING
RAISING MAORIS’ MORALS. Per Press Asociation. HAMILTON, Feb. 4. “I think the only solution to this problem is better housing for the Maoris,”, said His Honour, Mr Justice Johnson, at the Supreme Court to-day in discussing with counsel the moral standards of the Maoris, when John Henry, aged 33, labourer, charged with a serious offence, appeared for sentence. His Honour thought the conditions under which the Maoris lived tended to accentuate these offences. Counsel pointed out that it was a notorious fact that the moral conditions under
which the present-day Maori lived excited a tendency to commit these offences, which had become only too prevalent. The prisoner, he said, was only accepting the moral standards' of his community. In sentencing the prisoner to six months’ imprisonment, His Honour said that the Maoris must have some deterrent. They must understand the serious nature of this crime, from which young girls must.be protected, whether Maori or European. He could not believe that respectable Maoris did>not want their children protected.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 58, 5 February 1938, Page 11
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