WHISKY FOR MAORIS.
ffl LIQUOR 'illegally sold. It®I storekeeper heavily fined. prosecutions at raetihi. [by telegraph.—own correspondent.] RAETIHI, Wednesday. Several charges of sly grog-soiling „ ra ong the Maoris living at Rnnana and Jerusalem on tho Wanganui River, wero heard in tho Magistrate's Court at ' Raetihi to-day. Harry Wong, a storekeeper at Jerusalem, for selling whisky to Maoris on March 26, was fined £4O and ordered to pay costs £l9. A Maori, Rob Tanginoa Tapa, pleaded guilty to a charge of selling whisky to other Maoris and t was fined £25. For foiling to give notice of liquor being taken into a proclaimed area he was convicted and discharged. A half-caste Maori, George Hunt, was charged with supplying seven Maoris with liquor and was fined £2 on each charge. On two charges of failing to notify that liquor was being taken into a no-licence area he was fined £3 on each charge. A charge Hunt for keeping liquor for snlo was dismissed.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20239, 26 April 1929, Page 19
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161WHISKY FOR MAORIS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20239, 26 April 1929, Page 19
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