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Council we passed a resolution to the effect that she was to go out of our district —which she subsequently did. She has been the cause of a great deal of trouble throughout the district, even as far south as the South Island, which ended in 1905 in a lawsuit. The great evils resulting from her doings are —(1) drinking of intoxicating liquors, (2) the making of the patients haka after imbibing. This leads to drunkenness, and oft-times the patients are found drunk in their whares. Each patient is required to furnish a bottle of brandy, and every one, men, women, and children, must partake thereof. I have known many innocent children and young girls become demoralised through drinking this vile stuff. Even little babies still suckling at the mother's breast are made to drink brandy. There have been other tohungas in different districts who have followed on like lines, and some have been most degrading. All this has resulted in the diminution of our numbers, in the weakening of the race, and in the tarnishing of the faith in the Maker. Any young man or woman can become a tohunga, but the doings of all are a great curse. They have added many pernicious things to the ancieni mode of treatment. Nearly all are in the tohunga business because it pays. Some have become pakeha tohungas, because they practise palmistry, phrenology, and other allied humbugs. The result of these practices is just as bad as that of the tohungas, if not worse. There are many Councils in this Island, but not all have by-laws passed to prevent these evil practices. This is partly due to the fact that many of the members of these Councils are themselves believers in tohungas. A further trouble lies in the unsettled state of the Native Office, because the applications, &c, have not yet been gazetted. I will bring up this subject when we meet in Auckland at the conference of Sanitary Inspectors which you have convened. In bygone days there was but one law which the Maori observed in regard to his body, and that was to be on the alert for any sudden attacks from foes. They built their pas on the hills and mountains, in order to see thejr enemies when they advanced on them. This condition of ever fighting produced a race of men large of stature, healthy, and active. Then there were but two deaths for men—the death of Tv (the God of War) and of old age. Since the advent of the pakeha the Maori has become a prey to every passing disease, in spite of the nice clothes and the fine food introduced by his white brother. The Maori ignorantly grasped the shadow of those things which were introduced, and forgot that there was a law pertaining to the wearing of pakeha clothes, to the breathing of fresh air, the eating of pakeha food, and the drinking of pakeha rum. The seed of education which has been sown amongst the Maori is now his only hope. The Maori ways are done, the road lies before, and they must get acquainted with the road by education—already they are on the way—for many of our sons and daughters have succeeded in obtaining the learning ot the pakeha This has come about within the past twenty years. While on this subject I would like to suggest, and I know you will agree will me, that hygiene should be taught in all our schools, and the terms of Government scholars should be extended from two to three years, and after the expiration of their time suitable employment be found for them. I am certain that, if half of the pension moneys given to the aged Maoris was utilised for the descendants of these old people, much good would result, such as a Native hospital, which the Maoris can never build without aid. Instruction could be given to the young Maori in nursing at this hospital Education is what is needed, so the Maori may be conversant with the laws governing his body and those spider-web entanglements which enwrap his lands. The statement has often been made that the Maori is indolent. Now, this is not so, and the pakeha must not be blinded by this assertion, because indolence is entirely due to the entanglement of the multitudinous laws which govern the Maori's lands. The individualisation of Maori land is the solution of the problem, because it has not only induced Maoris to supply milk to the dairy factories, but it has made them become pakeharised in many things. _ ■ . lam K lad to mention that the past year has been one without its usual crop of infectious diseases However satisfactory this may be, you will see that a great many deaths have occurred, especially among the children.' This, as pointed out in previous reports, is due to ignorance concerning the nursing of children and sick adults — because proper nursing is half the battle in looking after the sick. You will see by the following table that in spite of the great number of deaths, tKe births exceed, though by a small margin only. Deaths and Births for Tear 1906. Tribe. District. Births. Deaths. Puhourangi Whakarewarewa ... 1& t> Hihourangi ... ... Te Puke ... •■• ' Ngatirangitihi] Matata - 9 9 Te Tawera ) Ngatiwhakane ... ... Owhata ) 3 2 Ngatitu ... ■•• Owhatiura J Ngatipikiao ... ... Eotoiti ... ••• ■•• ° Ngatipikiao ... ... Maketu ••• ••• j> £ Ngatiwhakane ... ... Ohinemutu ... ••• *-6 o Ngatiwhakane ... ... Maketu ••• ••• A . (Te Awahou ) g 3 Ngatirangiwewena ... "JTePuke ) Ngatiuenukukopako \ rp e ac ... ... ... 1 Ngatirangiteaorere i Tapuika TePuke ... Ng'atituara ... '••• Horohorome j Ngatiwhaoa ... ••• Ohinemutu [ Ngatitahu ... ■•• Waiotapu ... Ngatiohenga ... ■•• Waiteti Ngatimetetamahika ... 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