SENTENCE ON CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER
TWO YEARS’ DETENTION
(P.A.) Auckland, Aug. 21. This was a crime ol violence in which the file of a young man way destroyed, said Mr. justice Cornish in the Supreme Court to-day, when sentencing a Maori, William Martin, aged 21, to two years’ reformative detention on a charge of manslaughter. The charge arose out of a fracas between pakehas and Maoris at Pakotai, North Auckland, in April, when William Arnesen was killea by a stone which struck him on the head.
“We cannot tolerate violence in the community; it must be stamped out,’’ said His Honour, addressing the prisoner. T do not overlook the fact that drink was brought to you. But lox that, you would have gone to bed that night without commit ling a crime and that influences me in the sentence J am going to pass. Drink is no ircend of tne young pakeha, but it is the deadly enemy of the young Mauri. Sometime pakehas may learn that they are doing no service to the Maoris by giving them dr.nk.”
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 198, 22 August 1945, Page 3
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