Acts Affecting Native Lands, Etc. (In English and Maori), Passed by the General Assembly, Session 1907.
1907, No. 13. — An Act to suppress Tohungas
1907, No. 13.
Title. An Act to suppress Tohungas.
[24th September, 1907.
Preamble.Whereas designing persons, commonly known as tohungas, practise on the superstition and credulity of the Maori people by pretending to possess supernatural powers in the treatment and cure of disease, the foretelling of future events, and otherwise, and thereby induce the Maoris to neglect their proper occupations and gather into meetings where their substance is consumed and their minds are unsettled, to the injury of themselves and to the evil example of the Maori people generally:
Be it therefore enacted by the General Assembly of new Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
1. | Short Title. This Act may be cited as the Tohunga Suppression Act, 1907. | ||||
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3. | Regulations. The Governor may from time to time, by Order in Council gazetted, make such regulations as he thinks fit to enable the intention of this Act to be carried out. | ||||
4. | Repeal. Subsection five of section sixteen of the Maori Councils Act, 1900, and all regulations made under that subsection, are hereby repealed. |