AUSTRIAN-MADE WINE.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 703, 31 December 1909, Page 6

AUSTRIAN-MADE WINE.

11 'HAWKED IN'DKAY LOADS. AND SOLD TO HAOEIS. (By, v Association.) i Auckland,' December 30. ■ A statement-as, to what is=alleged. to bo takingj.place irivthe North .of' Anoklaiul ■through:; tho-paMngaiid ■ sale r of - winoVby. Austnans. was/.made at - the- Young Maoru Earty's.' Conference -yesterday.sby utile Sev; ,j i - MTVilliafti. .:-The speaker*:. stated that,: in : Herekmo alone, 'tlic AuStrians grew.. grapes enough-last, year to''produce season;.will boover 20,000 gallons;. Thero viiit allowed-the; man who grew grapes' to sell hisowme-inftwo-gallon riots, ;;prorided.i'it: was not consumed on his premises. Theso -were;'), the .^onlyi;^ of '/.wine,-' and it sc-emed-- ridiculous, to surround ( the - licensedvictualler ' with dozens' of ' rcstnctions and yet to allow ■these -.ahens - tosoil-, their 'wine • almost■ without- restrictions. '- The .• evils vin'Mihese.-. sa,id;wcould.-.not- .be. v over-;-statedi;> vWhere-thero -was vs.- large -Native population; -it > was' : only.; natural that the •Maoris' werew;suppbed with • a. good ? deal •ofsAwmei''i.".Thoi^ , Austrians 'i'hawked. - tho ■wine: even 1 fifty.' miles i from vHorekino ! w draysin summer and on pack-horses ; -in ?ayintii;^lo^OT^K-xbads^^zispraKab^r^".--;'badj- soj i keen were they for tho profits accruing from ./.this i trade.lv yTho f :police i-were ■ lirawand f :ir'between, ■ and it' was "impossible ■for; thsin'-toTcopo-with tho' evils resultingfrom tho wino industry • ' i Sovoral i speakers,-. Maori -. and • pakeha, also 'spoke; in corroboration-,of ;tho statements : made; and .■ the - conferenco .passed; the/.following', .unanimously : ■ ''Thats thef attontion - of,i the .Minister - for: Agriculture be drawn to the- many; evils resulting from the- sale of wineby, the Austnans in- the- districts of■, -Whangapo,' Herekino, Waiharera, ; and Houhora. :.-