TRIAL OF RUA.
HE WANTED A LICENSE TO SELL iIQUOE. Auckland, June 30. At the trial of Rua, a witness for the defence said that during the visit of the police to Wai-iti in February, the natives asked the police, "Haw are things at the war?" The police replied that the war was doing well. They told the police it was their earnest wish and desire that wu should be victorious in the war. Rua said he was unable to understand the desire of the Government to arrest him a second time on the same charge of sly-grog selling, and he therefore suggested that the ''big man of the Government" should come to discuss the matter. He said he was prepared to pay I'lOO, ,€2OO, .£SOO or £IOOO for a license to sell liquor. The. policemen said it was not in their power to get him one. Aftd the visit of the police to Maungapohatu, resulting in the ar- ' rest of Rua, the big Bible was missed. If the police had been able to take Rua witness had no doubt he would have gone. Tie did not think the natives would have physically resisted Rim's sir- j rest, not even if he had been dragged I away at Wai-iti.
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Taranaki Daily News, 3 July 1916, Page 2
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209TRIAL OF RUA. Taranaki Daily News, 3 July 1916, Page 2
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