Kaihau, the Daring.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 16 June 1910, Page 3

Kaihau, the Daring.

DEFIFS THL TOIII'NGAS. AND SCOFFS AT "MAKI'TU." At the Maori Conference at Waihi Mr Henare Kaihau, M.P., took the tuhuiifsa-to task. of the iie.'L'ssity for the Maoris establishing local wnmuittees to deal with sanitation and the prevention of drunkenness. Mr Kaihau went on to Kiy that closely connected with the li(|iior traffic was an immoral and nefarious /trade carried on by immoral (juacks and frauds, who traded on ignorance. Thoii medicines were as atrocioms as their persons, an.l liipior of the worst kind formed the liases of their nostrums. For such there was only one place, and that place was iraol. These sentiments did not appeal to be popular, nor did the tohuimas presenlt accept the challenge of Mi I Kaihau, who invited thom to come femvard and "maku<tu" him. The law to be a<liinLlii.stered bv the various councils, said Mr Kaihau, must take cognisance of the tohunga charlatan, who was simply one of the worst relics of barha rism.