MAORIS AND LIQUOR
THE RACE MENACED. (Per United Press A.ssociation.) WANGANUI, May 28. The fact that drink was urged as an extenuating circumstance in a charge against a native youth at the Supreme Court today led to some trenchant remarks by the Chief Justice, Sir Robert Stout. His Honour said that it was evident that drinking was being permitted among the Maoris, and the native race was doomed to destruction if steps were not taken to deal with the matter. He did not think the Maoris were half as numerous as when he arrived in the dominion. “We are stronger than they to bear their burden,” proceeded his Honour, “but nothing is being done to prevent the Maori race being destroyed by the evil we have brought in amongst them.”
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Southland Times, Issue 17796, 29 May 1918, Page 5
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130MAORIS AND LIQUOR Southland Times, Issue 17796, 29 May 1918, Page 5
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