LIQUOR FOR MAORIS : RELAXATION SOUGHT
(P.R.) > WELLINGTON. Aug. 27. The’repeal of all distinctions between Maori and Europeans under the Licensing Law was the prayer of a petition presented to the House of Representatives yesterday from Hone Heke Rankin and over 50 other Maoris of the Kaikohe district. Tlie present differentiation, stated the petition, was felt particularly by Maori ex-servicemen when attending reunions with their pokeha comrades where alcoholic liquor was supplied on purely a hospitable basis, but a former Maori soldier was not allowed to participate. Ridiculous anomalies at present existing were frustrating to the Maori. A Maori woman married to a European husband was not restricted, whereas a Maori man married to a European wife was forbidden to enjoy the consumption of alcoholic liquor away from licensed premises. It was suggested that the organisation under the Maori Social and Economic Advancement Act could properly control the Maori observance of a more liberal liquor law and the petition asked that at the next general election a referendum of the Maori people should be taken on the proposal.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22727, 27 August 1948, Page 3
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177LIQUOR FOR MAORIS : RELAXATION SOUGHT Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22727, 27 August 1948, Page 3
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