DRINK AND CHARITY .
Canteens at the railway camps in tin's district are be officially prohibited. The new contractor for rations took on himself to open a canteen at each of the camps, and began selling liquors to laborers who are maintained by colonial charity at subsistence wages to stave off starvation. Wo cheerfully upheld the new contractor’s claim to fair and equal treatment in getting the rations contract. We now as readily protest with indignation at his action in setting up these canteens to tempt the “ unemployed” to spend in drink the small surplus paid for the maintenance of their families, or to buy any bare necessaries. There is a cynical defiance of common decency in this matter which must have caused pain to most persons in the district, yet it was premature to blame the contractor until his responsibility had been made clear. A letter was received yesterday from the Minister of Justice informing Mr J. Chadwick, in answer to a joint complaint from many settlers, that the District Engineer is now instructed to prohibit any h'qnor canteens at camps for “ unemployed.”
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Patea Mail, 13 November 1880, Page 2
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