LIQUOR FOR MAORI WOMAN

Taranaki Daily News, 3 August 1935, Page 10

LIQUOR FOR MAORI WOMAN

NATIVE FINED £lO AT HAWERA.

“This offence is serious,” said Mr. W. H. Woodward, S.M., at the Hawera Magistrate’s Court yesterday in imposing a fine of £lO on Wirt Henare Wai tai for supplying liquor to a young Maori woman. If the penalty were not paid or recovered by distress Waitai would have to serve a period of two months in prison, said Mr. Woodward. Constable F. Lemm detailed the finding of a Maori girl of about 19 or 20 years of age in a Nonhanby hotel on July 10 with a glass of whisky in her hand, and the taking of her statement that Waitai had supplied the liquor. Waitai admitted the offence to him.

Sergeant Henry, who prosecuted, characterised the incident as disgraceful and a form of offence which it was most desirable should be stamped out. He asked that an example be made of Waitai as a deterrent to others. The maximum penalty, he said, was a fine of £5O. PERSONAL ITEMS. At a well attended meeting of M Squadron Legion of Frontiersmen at Stratford on Thursday night, Lieut J. T. Scott, Eltham, • was, on the motion of Lieut. C. W. Carncross and Lieut. Briggs, unanimously elected squadron leader. Mr. Scott, who will carry the rank of captain, succeeds Major Ricketts, D.C.M., who has been promoted to second in command, New Zealand headquarters I staff.