LIQUOR FOR MAORIS
PROSECUTIONS AT KAWHIA
CONVICTIONS AND FINES
At a sitting of the Magistrate’s Court at Kawhia on Tuesday Mr W. H. Freeman presiding, Alfred Alan Chilcott pleaded "uilty that he did, on 9th October, supply alcoholic liquor off licensed premises to two Maori males and to a similar charge relating to a female Maori. Constable A. J. Goodwin told the Court that on the date in question, in consequence of information received, he had visited the house of defendant and found him in the act of supplying beer to the Maoris, who had admitted that three cups of liquor had been consumed. In addition he found in the room twp bags of beer from which three bottles had been consumed. Defendant had been more or less a nuisance about town and had been warned on two or three previous occasions, but had carried on.
The magistrate said that the supplying of liquor to a Maori woman was a serious offence—more so than to a Maori man. There was good reason for that. On the charge of supplying a native woman defendant would be fined £7 10s and 10s costs, and on the other charge relating to the men £2 10s and 'los costs.
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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 77, Issue 6998, 3 December 1948, Page 6
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205LIQUOR FOR MAORIS Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 77, Issue 6998, 3 December 1948, Page 6
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