MAORI ASSAULTS MOTHER
HAf) FITS OF VIOLENT TEMPER MEDICAL EXAMINATION ORDERED By Telegraph.—Press Association. Waipukurau, Last Night. A Maori riged 24, Taikura. Hanita, waa charged to-day with brutally assaulting his aged mother at South Makaretu pleaded guilty. Constable Phillips, Takapau, stated Taikura wag subject to fits of violent frenzied temper. Once he.cut off a cow’s t: ‘1 iri a rage and killed another cow besides ill-treating a horse. Taikura attacked his mother because she remon.stiated with him for damaging the bath in a fit of temper while he was washin". Taikura literally flew at his mother,, striking her. across the face and head, and he smacked his sister’s face twice. Eventually he was overpowered and locked up. ’The family and residents were frightened. Taikura was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence within six months. He was committed to the care of relatives to be medically examined and was bound over to keep off his mother’* property.
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Taranaki Daily News, 17 January 1931, Page 4
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