SUPPLYING LIQUORS to MAORIS.
At Wanganui, on the 2nd of June, Mr Hardcastle, R.M., delivered the following judgment in an action in which Mr Jones sued Hamuera Wuna for £62 8s Id goods supplied, including Ll3 15s for spirits. His Worship said ; The Legislative Council Ordinance of 1847, Session VIII, No 3, appears to have been proclaimed in this district. The original is inaccessible, but the fact I think sufficiently appears from the Order in Council hereinafter mentioned. That Ordinance, by section 1, prohibits absolutely any sale or gift of spirits to natives. Section 2 prohibits the sale to natives of wine or fermented liquors in any quantity which shall produce intoxication. Section 3 imposes a penalty of LlO for each offence. Statute No. 39 of 1870 provides for the repeal of this Ordinance from 31 Deo. 1870 in all districts in which it is not kept, alive by Order in Council. It is kept alive in this district by order in Council, N.Z. Gazette 1871, page 37, validated by Statute No. 80, 1874. The judgment therefore excludes Ll3 15s, charged for spirits, but includes L 3 charged fox* beer, which was not shown to have produced intoxication. Costs of court L2 ss.
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Patea Mail, 4 June 1881, Page 3
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