KAIHAU DEFIES THE TOHUNGA.
At the Maori Conference at Waihi Mr Henare Kaihau, M.P., took the tohuuga to task. Speaking of the necessity for the Maoris establishing local committees to deal with sanitation and the prevention of drunkenness, Mr Kaihau went on to say that closely connected with the liquor traffic was tuhungaism, an immoral and nefarious trade carried on by immoral quacks and frauds, who traded on ignorance. Their medicines were as atrocious as their persons, and liquor of the worst kind formed the basis of their nostrums. For such there was only one place, and that place was gaol. The sentiments did not appear to be popular, nor did the tohungas present accept the challenge of Mr Kaihau, who invited them to come forward and “makutu” him.
The law to be administered by the various councils, said Mr Kaihau, must take cognisance of the tohunga charlatan, who was simply one of the worst relics of barbarism.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 854, 18 June 1910, Page 3
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158KAIHAU DEFIES THE TOHUNGA. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 854, 18 June 1910, Page 3
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