A TOHUNGA.
WHISKY AT AN INCANTATION.
.(Per Press AMociaticD.)
Christobureb, Taesday.
The Maahanui Native Ooflooil on Thursday fined a Maori 30a for supplying liquor to eight native women at Kaiapoi, and Margaret Urn was similarly fined for inviting persons lo a gathering at .which. it was supplied. Margaret Dm, being ill. invited a tobunga from the North Island to 'Attend her, end at his iacaatation, he gave w small portion of whisky to each person present. The case, wbieb had been referred to tbo Native Council by Mr Day, S.M., came before the Magistrate's Court again to-day. The magistrate said it was not to be understood that under the guise of a religious ceremony liqaot could be distributed to Maori women, Defendant was fined Is and 19j costs ia one case, and the police agreed to withdraw the other seven oases.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1564, 21 September 1905, Page 3
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141A TOHUNGA. Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1564, 21 September 1905, Page 3
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