MAORI ELOPEMENT
CHASED BY PARENTS POLICEMAN AS PEACEMAKER from Our Own Correspondent NGATEA, Wednesday. The lot of a policeman is no happier now than in the days of Gilbert and Sullivan, if the recent experience of the Plains constable is any Indication. Some time before 5 a.m. oil a recent frosty morning, he was aroused by persistent knocking at his front door and called to a nearby house occifpled by Maoris. A young half-caste girl had run away with a Maori man and the pair had been pursued by the girl’s parents to the home of the man’s parents. The constable had been called to prevent any possible breach of the peace for the argument had proceeded to this early hour of the morning. Eventually harmony was restored, on tlie girl’s parents consenting to her marriage.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1020, 10 July 1930, Page 16
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136MAORI ELOPEMENT Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1020, 10 July 1930, Page 16
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