MAORIS AND LIQUOR.
(By Telegraph.—Prese Association.) WANGANUI, Tuesday. The fact that drink was urged as an extenuating circumstance in a charge against a native youth at the Supreme Court to-day led to some remarks by the Chief Justice. Sir Robert Stout said that it was evident that drinking was being permitted among the Maoris, and, in his opinion, the race was doomed to destruction if steps were not taken to deal with the matter. He did not think the Maoris were now half as numerous as when he arrived in the Dominion. " Nothing is being done," he added, "to prevent the Maoris being destroyed by the evil wo have brought amongßt them."
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 127, 29 May 1918, Page 7
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112MAORIS AND LIQUOR. Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 127, 29 May 1918, Page 7
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