MAORI WHO FORGOT
24-YEAR-OLD CASE RECALLED. INFORMATION DISMISSED. (Per Press Association.) TE KUITI, March 25. At the Police Court, a case, the age of which is supposed to be a record for the Dominion, was heard here today, when William Ware, of Frankton, was charged with having, in 1900, sold whisky to natives at Te Kuiti. Scaior-Scrgeant Matthew said he laid the original information when a consraWe at Tc Kuiti. Accused disappeared soon after, but witness recognised him at Hamilton in December, 1323. The Senior-Sergeant gave evidence as to hiving overheard the accused selling liquor to Nikora, a native constable, and other Maoris. He seized Hqaor on the premises of Noble, accused *8 employer, whom witness had noc heard of since. Nikora was the Crown’s principal wiMiess, but, when examined through an interpreter, said he could not remember the events retered to by the police. The ease was dismissed.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 18973, 26 March 1924, Page 5
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