MAORI WOMAN FINED
YOUNG CHILD ILL-TREATED OPer Frees Association.) NEW PLYMOUTH, Inst night. For wilfully ill-treating her daughter, aged 14, a Maori Woman, mother of 12 children, was fined £5 and ordered to pay expenses £ll ss, ill the Police Court to-day.
A constable visited the home and found the child With both eyes blackehed and thte body bcatch “black and blue. ’’ The mother admitted beating the child because it had stolen a piece of cake.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17030, 15 August 1929, Page 10
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76MAORI WOMAN FINED Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17030, 15 August 1929, Page 10
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