MAORI VOTERS
ALLEGED SUPPLYING OF LIQUOR LABOUR MEMBER’S CHARGE (P.A.) WELLINGTON, July 3. An allegation that the National Party, to gain votes in the Wanganui river district; had supplied liquor to some Maori voters, was mad* l by Mr J. B. Cotterill (Government Wanganui). in the House of Representatives to-day. Mr J. N. Massey (Opposition. Franklin): C=n you prove that? Mr Cotterill: Of course 1 can. Mr C. G. Harker (Opposition. Hawke’s Bay): Why didn’t you prosecute. then? That would have been the decent thing. Mr Harker said that the member tor Wanganui had had a duty to oerform which he had not discharged Mr D C Kidd ‘Opnosition. Waimste) said the charge made by the member for Wanganui of supplying liquor to Maori oeople was so serious that Mr Cotterill had failed in his duty as a responsible citizen for not reporting it Mr Kidd challenged the mom ber for Wanganui to come out in the open, repeat the charges, and prove them.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25227, 4 July 1947, Page 8
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