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MAORIS AND LIQUOR

' TRENCHANT -REMARKS BY THE CHIEF JUSTICE. By TclcEraph—Press Association. Wanganui, May 28. The fact that <lrink was urged "as an extenuating circumstance in a charge against a Nalive youth aI. the Supreme Cou.rt to-day led to some trenchant remarks by the Chief Justice, Sir Robert Stout. His ITonour saM that it was evident drinking was being permitted among Maoris, and the Native race was doomed to destruction if steps were not taken to deai with the matter. He did not think the Maoi'is were- now half as numerous as when he arrived in the Dominion. "Wo are stronger than they to bear their burden," proceeded His Honour, "but nothing is being done to prevent the Maori race being destroyed by the evil m have brought amongst them"

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https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19180529.2.25

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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 214, 29 May 1918, Page 5

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130

MAORIS AND LIQUOR Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 214, 29 May 1918, Page 5

MAORIS AND LIQUOR Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 214, 29 May 1918, Page 5

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