THE OTAKI LOCK-UP.
TO' TUB EDITOR OF THE MANAWATC HERALD. Sin — Since the formal opening of this new institution in Qtaki, it has been chiefly celebrated by the absence ! from it of any inmates. We need not seek far to account for this. The reason is simply that those of the community who occasionally go in for a " spree " confine their pent-up feelings until the constable is called away for a few days to attend thfe. Court at Foxton or Wanganui, or on* some other business, when his departure by coach seems to be the signal agreed on for a* general " drank.'" Last Saturday night, or rather Sunday morning, isms made hideous by the shouts and yells of a score of pakohas and Maoris,* in which the pakehas, especially one female, took a leading part. The question is--Could not someone be appointed, or a Vigilance Committee formecT, to "run them in," in the absence of our solitary guardian of the peotfe t I am, «fee, _ , , Befobm. Ofcaki, November 22, 1880.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue 25, 26 November 1880, Page 2
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170THE OTAKI LOCK-UP. Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue 25, 26 November 1880, Page 2
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