FOODLESS MAORIS.
10 THE KDITOU. Km, —Iu your leader under [he abov. leading, you have in (Saturday's issw i statement to Hie effect " that an oh 1 liitive had succeeded in getting rid oi a sum approaching £IOO iu a few days' n a drunken orgic at Okato. Youi Representative could not have got his information from very good authority is the .statement in every respect is piite untrue. The highest elicqui paid at Okato last pay day was £U). Vly dealings with the Maoris here are considerable, and I can account for the greatest part uf their cheipies. This time the amounls got liy the natives were under the average, and by the time the butcher, storekeeper, blacksmith, etc., had been paid, the balance left was in most eases very small. .Ay Maori knows just as well as a I'akeha that it he does not pay his account when lie draws his chci|ue, he will not get the usual accommodation for the next six months, so it. is not true to ■insert that any one native spent all his rent money, lie it small or large, in debauchery .—I am, etc., •I. IS. Fox. Okato, olli March, I!li)l>.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8060, 7 March 1906, Page 2
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199FOODLESS MAORIS. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8060, 7 March 1906, Page 2
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