MAHUTA AND THE LIQUOR QUESTION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 160, 10 July 1903, Page 2

MAHUTA AND THE LIQUOR QUESTION.

HE SIGNS ME PLUDUE-, THE CHIEFS WILL ALSO SIGN. FEB Pit ESS ASSOCIATION. Auckland, July 9. I Mahuta signed the pledge at the instance of the Rev. Gittos as an examp'e to the natives who recognise his authority. He subscribed himseif " Mahuta' T.iwhiao." He states that if the Govern - ment give the Maori Councils the power, the Councils will stop tbe liquor traffic in the whole of the King Country. What is required is to prevent liquor being brought into the district. The chiefs of each district will follow Mahuta's lead in signing the p'edg*. 1 Every native will be required to con- ; form to the will of the majority or be* disgraced and liable to be thrown out of the community, j Henare Kaibu states that when Mahuta goes to Parliament he will make a statement that he is at one witb King Edward, and expects the Government and the Premier to fulfil the promises made to the Maoris in the past. Mahuta will do his utmost to see that theee pledges are cairied out. ;

Kaihu, who has been married several yosrs according to the Maori custom, has just bad bis marriage solemnitwd 'au&rdhg to the rites or the Cuurcn. Mrs Kaihu was Louisa Fiavell of the Ngatiteata tribe, Waiubu,