FRACAS OUTSIDE HOTEL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19070, 18 July 1936, Page 6

FRACAS OUTSIDE HOTEL

MAORIS FREE-FOR-ALL SEQUEL HEARD IN COURT FINES AT WHANGAREI (Per Press Association.') WHANG AREI, this day. A sequel to a- fracas outside the kaeo Hotel on June. 11, when Maoris who had just received Native Department unemployment contract money engaged in a free-for-all light, was heard in the Whangaroa Court this week. Five Maoris were fined £3 and costs for fighting while, drunk. Mr. M. 11. Findlay, for the Native Department, said that the waste by a section of the Maoris of money paid to tide them over a difficult part of the year and | to provide them with food and clothing was becoming a difficult problem for the 'department. Sheppei'd Hona was sentenced to gaol for a' week for assaulting, when drunk', jan elderly man r.amed Poland. Hani-aid Daniels was fined £lO for assaulting his sister, and Kawhiri Brown was fined £lO and had his license •cancelled for two years on a charge of being intoxicated while in charge 6f a motor lorry. (leorge Stevens Knightly was fined £lO for supplying liqUdr "to a female Maori. 11. A. Bainbridge, licensee of the Kaeo' Hotel, was fined £7 10s and his license' was ordered to be endorsed for selling liquor alter hours and he was also fined £2' for selling liquor to a Maori for consumption Oil' the premises. Six Europeans were fined £1 each for beingon licensed premises after hours and a woman was convicted on a charge of the same offence.