PROBATION FOR MAORI

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23154, 28 September 1938, Page 13

PROBATION FOR MAORI

MOTHER-IN-LAW ASSAULTED PROHIBITION ORDER IMPOSED [by telegraph—own correspondent] ROTORTJA, Tuesday. "You should be ashamed of yourself —assaulting woman," commented justices ?Sf -the peace in the ttotorua Police Court, when Matenga Galvin, a Maori labourer, of Rot.okawa, pleaded guilty to assaulting Hiria Ngapapa. Senior-Sergeant E. J. Carroll saidthat Galvin, who was on sustenance, had come in to Rotorua on Thursday to collect some money and, after paying some store accounts, had gone to an hotel and had too much drink. When he had arrived home under tho influenoa of drink he had quarrelled with his family and also his mother-in-law, whom ho liad assaulted. At the time tna defendant's mother-in-law had a baby in her arms and in the struggle the child had fallen and had been bruised. "At first I was inclined to suggest a term of imprisonment, but now that tho affair has blown over a little I would suggest that Galvin be placed on pro-, bation, provided he agrees to take outa prohibition order for life," commented the senior-sergeant. Galvin having intimated his willing* ness to take out a prohibition order for life, the Bench placed him on proban tion for one year and ordered him to, pay £1 Is medical expenses.