EATING DOG FLESH.
EVIDENCE BY AN ARIKI.' NOT DUE TO POVERTY. (By Te]ezrnnh.——Press Association.) WELLINGTON, VVednesda)‘. Referring again to the question of eating dogs. Judge Ayson, at. the Islands fruit Inquiry. said a false imv pression apparently had been created that poverty was responsible. That, he said, appeared to reflect on the Administration of Rarotonga. w Makea ’l‘inirau, the Ariki, -0.8. E.. said that. what had been said about eating dogs was not quite cor rect. It \\‘as quite true that, In the past certain sections 0! the people did eat dog flesh, but that was the old people. ‘
The remarks of a wiiness had ap—peared to make it that poverty was responsible. ‘He had not seen that sort. of. thing done since the hurricane of last. year, as far as his district was concerned. It was not true that me peeple had to eat dog.
As evidence of the financial position of thé people as a whole. it was stated that they spent £IOOO a. year on pic—tures. ~ _
"'rffi'e inquiry bias concluded here, but it may be further prosecuted in the islands themselves.
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Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19903, 4 June 1936, Page 12
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184EATING DOG FLESH. Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19903, 4 June 1936, Page 12
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