AUSTRIAN WINE
CAUSE OF DRUNKEN ORGIES. In the Mangonui County, in the extreme north of the Dominion (says the Commissioner of Police in his annual report) a number of Austrians make and sell wine, and some of these wine-pro-ducers have established depots for the sale of the wine, at all remote gumdigging camps throughout that district. The producer is allowed by law to sell his wine in quantities of not less than two gallons at any 'one time, but it appears that wine is sold from these depots by the bottle, and that it is purchased by both Maori and European gum-diggers, the Maori women being supplied as well as the men, and that frequent drunken orgies are the result. It is very difficult for the police to get sufficient evidence to justify a prosecution, owing to the reluctance of any of the persons living in these camps to give evidence against the offenders. The wino sent to these camps is mostly composed of a raw cheap spirit mixed with newly-made wine, the drinking of which concoction is said to drive the consumers mad for the time being. I beg to recommend that legislation be passed prohibiting the sale of New Zealand-made wino at any place except at the place where it has been produced and on licensed premises. This would at once do away" with the depot evil on the gumfields.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 11, 13 July 1914, Page 2
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232AUSTRIAN WINE Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 11, 13 July 1914, Page 2
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