CONSTABLE ASSAULTED
YOUNG MAORI CHARGED.
(Per United Press Association.)
Hastings, February 13.
A verdict of guilty was returned by the jury in the case in which a young Maori. Walter Poki, was charged with assaulting Constable A. Sutherland* at Hastings on January 18, so as to cause him actual bodily harm. The jury returned after an absence of an hour and a-half, recommending the accused to mercy on account of the excitable nature of the Maoris at the time and the fact that the constable was not in uniform. Poki was remanded till to-morrow for sentence.
The case was the sequel to a fracas in the main street of Hastings, involving a number of Maoris and Europeans, which followed an attempt by Constable Sutherland to arrest' one of the natives. Constable Sutherland suffered injuries which confined him to hospital for 13 days.
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Southland Times, Issue 22507, 15 February 1935, Page 5
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