CHARGE OF FIGHTING IN STREET
TWO MAORI BROTHERS
(P.A.) AUCKLAND, November 24. Two Maoris, Phillip Matthews, aged 23, and his brother, Henry Matthews, aged 36, were charged in the Magistrate’s Court with fighting with an unknown person in Nelson street on Saturday evening. Phillip Matthews was further charged with assaulting on the same date Dave Repia so as to cause actual bodily harm. In requesting a remand in both cases the police said the men were mixed up in a fight and shortly afterwards another man was found injured on the footpath and subsequently died. The Magistrate, Mr F. H. Levien, remanded both men to December 4 and allowed bail. In the case of Phillip Matthews bail was fixed at one surety of £250 in his own name and another of a similar amount.
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Southland Times, Issue 24601, 25 November 1941, Page 6
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