"RUINING MAORIS"
SUPPLYING OF LIQUOR - CASES AT WHAKATANE DRINK GIVEN NATIVE GIRLS [BY TELEGRAPH OWX CORRESPOND EST J WHAKATANE, "Wednesday "The supplying of liquor to Maori girls and to prohibited Maoris is bew coming too common in this district," said Mr. E. L. Walton, S.M., in the. Magistrate's Court to-day. : : Many charges were brought, occupying nearly the whole morning. One European was charged with supplying liquor to a Maori girl 17 years of age. "Liquor is ruining the Maori character. A white man'should have more sense," said the Magistrate. C. W. Rundell was -convicted and fined for supplying Maori girls with liquor, and W. E. Webber was fined £5 and costs for a similar offence. : W' Alexander Walker, a middle-aged pakeha, was fined £5 and costs for supplying liquor to a Maori girl 17 years of agC. Walker stated that the girl almost snatched the bottle out of hiu hand to have a drink, but the Magistrate warned Walker that ha could not win his case that way. He should have had more sense than to let her drink it in the view of the public. "The breaches of prohibition order# are far too common,". said Mr. Walton, "and I cannot deal leniently with them." There were numerous charge# of this nature. •
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22412, 7 May 1936, Page 10
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