ELECTION PETITION.

Waikato Times, Volume 97, Issue 15185, 10 March 1923, Page 5

ELECTION PETITION.

WESTERN MAORI SEAT.

By Telegraph.—Press Association. ", TAURANGA, Friday. Evidence was continued in the Pomare petition case, principally con-, cerning the, alleged treating at' Pomare’s ! greeting at Muir’s mines. The Two Girls’ Evidence. ' Kura Ngatai, by Mr , Justice Hosking, said she lived at Muir’s . house as a servant. She was there when Sir Maui Pomare made a speech. 'She remembered some Maoris being there on that occasion. She saw no whisky in the kitchen nor did she see any on the lawn outside. She handled no whisky at all that day. She did not see the haka and took no liquor out to the Maoris.; To Mr Myers,: she/said she remembered Hirama and another going out to Muir’s. She saw them and brought them some fruit. She had no conversation with them. They asked her where her friend Tewaka Kereru was. Tewaka was away on holiday that day. Tewaka Kereru, employed at Muir’s, said shg remembered Sir Maui Pomare’s meeting and.*gave none of them any refreshments or whisky or beer. She saw none of them drinking. She saw no whisky or beer outside. She saw the haka, but saw no Maorishaving whisky before or after the haka. This concluded the evidence to be, taken in Tauranga, and the hearing was adjourned to the Supreme Court at Auckland on Tuesday next.