“A man has been jailed for four years ten months for striking a woman with a taiaha, a long-handled club, he was carving – a blow that caused a 13cm-deep gash…
…Judge Jane Farish ordered destruction of the weapon after checking with Te Rupe that it had no special significance for him or his family. He said he had been making it himself and had not yet finished the carving but did not want it kept…” Source
Via Oswald Bastable, who asks if the same consideration would be extended to his possession of white man’s weapons….
