MAORI GIRLS AND CHINAMEN
“PARENTS HAD FULL KNOWLEDGE” "THOUGH she is only 15 she and t her sister have been living with Chinamen at Kohimasaid Senior-Sergeant G. B. Edwards, of a well-built Maori girl w ho came before the Children’s Court to - da_y“ln her own interest she should be taken away from her home,” continued the sergeant, “because her father and pother have permitted this to go on. h was done with their full knowledge. “Tiie Chinaman concerned has been committed for trial.” In answer to Mr. E. C. Cutten, S.M., Senior-Sergeant Edwards said that the Pa £ e nts were full-blooded Maoris. The girl was committed to the care , the superintendent of child wel-
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 86, 2 July 1927, Page 9
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114MAORI GIRLS AND CHINAMEN Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 86, 2 July 1927, Page 9
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