MAGISTRATE’S COURT.
MAORI LABOURER CHARGED. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, July 26. Charged with wilfully damaging three plate glass windows valued at £6O at Otahuhu yesterday afternoon, Nganikara Hohepa Maaka, a Maori labourer, aged 44, appeared in the Police Court at Auckland to-day. Sub-Inspector Fox. in asking for a remand, said that Maaka was seen going down Main Street, Otahuhu, waving a hammer and lie smashed twelve windows. Attention wa6 attracted by a passer-by and later, at the request of a constable, lie threw' the hammer down and submitted to arrest. He seemed excited; there were no signs of drink. Two doctors had cerlifled him as mentally deficient, but when lie was taken to a mental hospital the doctors there declined to admit him, although he had twice been, the inma.te of mental hospitals, having come out at his own request five weeks ago. _ , , Mr Wyvern Wilson. S.M., remanded Maaka to appear at Otahuhu on Monday next, remarking that if »i the meantime he showed signs of mental deficiency the Minister could obtain an order for his medical examination.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 201, 26 July 1937, Page 2
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178MAGISTRATE’S COURT. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 201, 26 July 1937, Page 2
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