LIQUOR IN THE KING COUNTRY.
TO THE EDITOR. Sir,—Your correspondents re prohibition in the King Country seems to miss the point, as there is no prohibition there... Only tho sale liquor is prohibited; it is supplied otherwise, and in large quantities, as witness empty casks and bottles by the hundreds and the odour thereof in so-oallcd "temperance" hotels. The effect on the Maoris is that, not having ready access to it, they appear to use it less, as they rarely look forward to the rainy day when their requirements may be supplied. They don't keep it in bond or stock. It is a decided mistake to say that there is more drinking there than in licensed districts, so residents and my own observations prove. Just outside the boundary at Kihikihi I have seen Maoris frequenting the hotels and drinkkig, but inside there is sufficient trouble in getting liquor to curtail the more often recurrence to it.—l am, etc., G.M.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 11537, 23 November 1900, Page 3
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159LIQUOR IN THE KING COUNTRY. New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 11537, 23 November 1900, Page 3
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