A SERIOUS OFFENCE.
•Dv YEARS’ HARD LABOUR. 3 (Per Press Association.) , WELLINGTON, Last Night. At the Supreme Court, Khakakuten ■ Hani Peka, a young Maori, was sen * fenced to six years’ hard labour fo: ■ having committed rape upon a 13 year-old girl at Moengawahine ii -" January. Mr Justice Herdman said h< .regretted that he could not order t birching.
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Manawatu Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 2075, 16 March 1922, Page 5
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58A SERIOUS OFFENCE. Manawatu Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 2075, 16 March 1922, Page 5
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