MAORI PROBLEM
(0.C.) TE AWAMUTU, Tuesday. "Maoris nowadays have too much easily-gained money, which some of them spend on drink," said Sergeant S. G. Clist in the Te Awamutu Police Court, when a Maori farm worker waff sentenced to a month's imprisonment for assault. Sergeant Clist said the Te Awamutu hotelkeepers refused to supply Maoris with liquor after 5 p.m., and they did what they could to curtail drunkenness among them. Steps were being taken to appoint a council of Maori elders in the district with a view to restricting the immoderate drinking of liquor among the natives. Sergeant Clist added that much of the trouble was due "to Maoris coming into the town from the King Country, a no-lieehse area, and drinking more than was good for them. A watch was being kept on trains and this was having a beneficial effect.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 88, 15 April 1942, Page 5
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