PAKEHA MUST BEAR THE ONUS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 843, 15 June 1910, Page 6

PAKEHA MUST BEAR THE ONUS.

■ _-__4—_ ■ ■ I - LIQUOR AND THE MAORIS. - STRINGENT RULES. (By TeleSranh—Press Association.). . > Auckland, June 14. Mr. Kaihau, M.P., interviewed at Huntly, said that in view of the enor- ' mous extension of European settlement 1 in tho King Country lie did not see iiow the opponents of prohibition could fail to carry their point to annul tho pro--1 claination forbidding the introduction of , liquor. When the proclamation ■ was made Natives owned three million acres of land in Rohepotao, against Half a million-acres now. lie would lie no * party to the removal of tho restriction. > The evil, if introduced, would owe its = presence to the pakeha, who would have 1 to bear the onus if disastrous results followed: Tho Maori Conference at Waahi car- ' ried resolutions for tho immediate eon- - stitution of a District Maori Council, " which would supersede all land boards, and largely overcome delay in tho settlc--3 ment of land. Tho Maori Council was 5 instructed to draw stringent rules for - the suppression of the drink traffic. The speakers bemoaned the intemperance of - the rising generation, and urged that no- - thing but total prohibition of liquor from lands, villages, and pas occupied by Maoris would be acceptable. It was resolved that the lands known as the Hopu Hopu mission bo acquired and a Native town established there with a college giving boys and girls first-class secondary education. ______