SALE OF LIQUOR.
AWAKING PROHIBITION.
INCLUSION QUESTIONED,
(From Our Correspondent.)
NEW PLYMOUTH, Wednesday.
Whether a considerable area of the King Cauntry in the vicinity of Awakino has unnecessarily been included in the no-licenee district for many years is a question raised by Mr. A. Bartlett, of Awakino. Mr. Bartlett claims he has definite proof that Awakino is not included in Kobe Potai, or the King Country, in which the sale of intoxicating liquor i» prohibited. About 350,000 acres in the Awakino district, Mr. Bartlett says, was proclaimed Crown land under Queen Victoria three years before the eigning of the Treaty of Waitangi, and therefore does not come within the prohibited area.
Mr. W. H. Skinner, an eminent authority on Taranaki history, said, however, that he had no reason to doubt that Awakino was within the Robe Potai area. A considerable area of land from Mokau and up the coast to Onutai had been sold to the Government by the natives.
The eale, said Mr. Skinner, was not made until 1853 or 1855, a considerable time nfter the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 280, 25 November 1937, Page 15
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