A FOLLOWER OF RATANA.
UNUSUAL ATTITUDE. IN SUPREME COURT CASE. AUCKLAND, October 26. “Would the Court like to hear why we have found accused not guilty?” asked the foreman of the jury in the Supreme Court after returning a verdict in the case of a young Maori charged with false pretences. “I don’t care to hear anything,” replied Mr. Justice Herdman. “I can’t understand it, that is all. You may go to the back of the Court.” The accused was Tu.Taara and he was charged with obtaining at Kaiwaka the sum of £l7 from Thomas Vincent Nutsford, through his agent, by falsely representing that he was authorised to obtain a loan on behalf of his mother. The accused told the jury that he was a follower of Ratana and in pursuance of their belief in the principles of peace and goodwill toward all men, he would not contradict the evidence of witnesses. He was willing to accept the judgment of the Court in this case in atonement for the sins of his past, of which the Court knew nothing. He added that the trouble was really a.family one and *he hoped his mother and father would forgive him for lhe trouble he had caused.—* (P.A.)
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Wairarapa Age, 27 October 1926, Page 5
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205A FOLLOWER OF RATANA. Wairarapa Age, 27 October 1926, Page 5
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