MAORIS AND LIQUOR

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22584, 24 November 1936, Page 11

MAORIS AND LIQUOR

PROSECUTIONS AT PUKEKOHE FINES UP TO £4 IMPOSED [from our OWN correspondent] PUKEKOHE, Monday "lhe supplying of liquor to natives for consumption off licensed premises is becoming a nuisance around here," said Sergeant G. H. L. Holt in the Pukekohe Police Court to-day when charges arising out of two occasions when natives were found with liquor in cars were before the Court. Tom Kaui, who said he was not a Maori, pleaded guilty to supplying wine to Joe Pawiri and Tom Kaa at Pukekoho on October 21. Constable F. Wakelin said that about 9.45 p.m. he saw Pawiri and Kaa drinking in Kaui's car, which was parked in Manukau Road, Pukekoho, opposite the theatre. In a statement made later, Kaui admitted having purchased 12 bottles of wine at Te Kauwhata and inviting Rawiri and Kaa to have some at Pukekoho. Kaui was fined £4 and costs, £1 (is, while Rawiri and Kaa, convicted of aiding and abetting Kaui to commit an offence, were each fined £2 and costs. Fines of £2 were also imposed 011 Ted Oki Oki, Samuel Kahui and Pat Paerenga, who wert» stated to have hired a taxi to take them from Pukekoho to Patumahoe on the evening of November 6, and who admitted inducing a taxi driver to obtain several bottles of beer for them from the Patumahoe Hotel. Charges against Fdgar A. Dix, taxi driver, and the licensee of the hotel, William Elgar Johns, and his son, William Elgar Bradley Johns, were adjourned until December 1.