Religious tolerance is evidently a prominent characteritic of the Maori, remarks an exchange. During the Christmas season many tribes and hapus gathered together at Te Ore Ore, near Masterton, to take part in a “ religious conference ” for Catholics, Anglicans, Nonconformists, Mormons, the Church of the Seven Rules of Jehovah, and presumably any other sects which number Natives among their adherents. Residents of a college town in North Carolina bought all the cigarettes and tobacco held in stock by local merchants and burned them in a big bonfire. That town was visited by travelling tobacco salesmen within 24 'hours.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3017, 10 January 1912, Page 28
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