LICENSING PETITION
PROTEST BY MAORIS KING COUNTRY HOTELS [Per Press Association. — Copyright. ] WANGANUI, This Day. The secretary of the Maniapoto Maori Council, Mr. Wetini Hotu, has written to the Rev. A. J. Seamer, superintendent of the Methodist Home Mission Department, protesting against the secrecy attaching to the withdrawal of the petition recently presented to Parliament, allegedly on behalf of the Maori people of the King Country, urging tile licensing of hotels in that territory. Mr. Wetini forwards a declaration, which is signed and witnessed, alleging that it is eight years since some of the natives signed the petition, then believing it was in favour of prohibition, and that other names on the petition include those of a number of people who have been dead several years. It is suggested that the petition was part of the old one got up eight years ago. Mr. Wetini further alleges that promises were made that land would be bought for the benefit of natives if licenses were granted.
Another statement signed by King Koroki Tawhiao and other chiefs of the King Country confirms their strong opposition to licenses.
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Northern Advocate, 9 November 1934, Page 5
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185LICENSING PETITION Northern Advocate, 9 November 1934, Page 5
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