MAORI TRIBAL COMMITTEE TROUBLED
DISTRESSED REGARDING LIQUOR LAWS IN MAKETU At a recent meeting of the Maketu Tribal Committee, members spent several hours deliberating on the best ways and means of combating the sale and consumption of liquor in the Maori Pas and villages in the Te Puke district. The discussion was anomolous as, since the referendum on the sale and consumption by Maoris of beer and spirits, another act definitely states that no spirituous liquors of any kind are allowed in public dance halls, Maori meeting houses, or on the maraes, but unless actually caught selling the beer, a conviction cannot be obtained against offenders. At this meeting, however, a letter was received from the local storekeeper protesting that the Maori people were not paying their accounts-, using their social security money for beer. Another letter was received from the local vendor of beers and wines, etc., requesting the Tribal committee to obtain for him payment for 22 cartons of beer which he alleged he supplied to a Maori sports organisation in Maketu some weeks ago and for which he was unable to obtain payment.
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Te Puke Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 48, 28 June 1949, Page 2
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