BROKEN BEER BOTTLES

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 39, 11 January 1944, Page 4

BROKEN BEER BOTTLES

i i Sir,.—l would like to call your attention to another series of hooliganisms. which is much more dangerous than the lifting of plants etc. although that is T>ad enough. I refer • to the number of broken .bottles Avhich are strewn along the river bank and more particularly in the children'?\ playground. These bottles, from my own observation are emptied< '• •• and broken by Maoris, and the ques- - tion arises and is being seriously; considered by a number of citizens as to how and where these Maoris ' * get the beer. It is against the Jaw ,)! for Maoris to be supplied with beer . / to take away, but any night in the week parties of them can be seen with cartons making for a rendezvous which is mainly amongst the trees in the playground or the river bank. lit occurs to me that if somcr of. these bright sparks who draw a week or fortnight's detention in the local housegow were taken off the everlasting gardening which .■■they do - ./' and set to gathering broken bottler in the playground and on the river bank the effect on their friends would be to some good. The creak-? ; ing of the bottles in such proximity to the river and playground deserves the severest punishment. ' . S Yours etc., VISITOR.