Landers A “Nuisance”
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SOME bad publicity for Islanders resident in Auckland, New Zea land, resulted from a recent court case there, A Crown Solicitor, opposing the appeal of a Samoan or part-Samoan against a convic tion on three charges of assault, said that Islanders were “causing a t emendous amount of nuisance.”
The defendant in this particular care was a 30-year-old plumber, 'hTl'hn Bentley, whose appeal was dismissed. He received three months hard labour.
A number of cases involving other Islanders—not all from 'n,n —have occurred in recent 1 o : all following more or less t same pattern. All have had too • rich to drink and have shown a propensity for bashing people.