SUPPLYING MAORIS WITH LIQUOR
! . Br Telegraph—Press Association. Wanganuf, February 2. A number of cases were heard to-day in connection, with, liquor supplied to Natives. - 'Tho policso' said that' enormous quantities of liquor were going into tho prohibited area, and at Christmas there ■was great debauchery at pahs on the Wangamii River. The matter had now become a scandal, One European was fined £20, and others, smaller amounts. Two Natives were fined £4 each. Counsel for the Native defendants said they had already been fined a pound each by the Maori Council for the offences, and contrary to the principles of British justice they were now being fined again.. The Magistrate held that he had jurisdiction, but took that fact into consideration.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2685, 3 February 1916, Page 7
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121SUPPLYING MAORIS WITH LIQUOR Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2685, 3 February 1916, Page 7
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