MAORIS AND LIQUOR
The report of the Methodist Maori Mission presented to the meeting of the Wellington Synod commented upon tho ravages of alcohol upon the Maoris. “This terrible scourge” said the report, “continues to create many tragic difficulties in our work. Only the abolition of alcoholic liquor from our community life will solve the problem. Another strongly-organised attempt was made during the year to have licenses introduced into the King Country in violation of the sacred pact under which Europeans entered that area in the first place. It is gratifying to report that the Maori people themselves through their chiefs and leaders in a iarge and representative conference once more strongly reaffirmed their support of the pact and their urgent desire that all intoxicating liquor be kept out of the area and the present laws bo strengthened and enforced.”'
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20107, 29 November 1939, Page 13
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140MAORIS AND LIQUOR Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20107, 29 November 1939, Page 13
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