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New Zealand: Acts affecting Native Lands, 1886, 1888-91 and 1894-95

(D.) Drunkenness (Section 16, Subsection 4.)

(D.) Drunkenness (Section 16, Subsection 4.)

16.No alcoholic liquor shall be supplied, drunk, or brought to any Maori hui, gathering, or meeting of any kind, or for any purpose whatsoever, whether held in a Maori kainga or at any other place within the district, except townships and European lots in a Native township.
17.Where a public meeting ia held by invitation, the person or persons issuing such invitation shall be jointly and severally liable, if he or they supply or cause to be supplied any alcoholic liquor to the visitors, or any of them, or to any person whatsoever attending such meeting, to a penalty not exceeding ten pounds.
18.Any person found drunk at any kainga or Maori meeting shall be liable to a fine of not lass than tan shillings and not exceeding two pounds.
19.Any person found drunk in any Maori kainga shall be liable to a fine not exceeding five shillings for the first offence, not exceeding ten shillings for the second offence, and not exceeding one pound for every subsequent offence.
20.Any person shall be guilty of an offence who—
(1.)Being drunk, or under the influence of liquor, enters a meeting-house, or a church, or some other public building within a Maori pa.
(2.)Takes any alcoholic liquor into such meeting-house, church, or public building
(3.)Drinks or causes any one else to drink any alcoholic liquor in any such meeting-house, church, or public building.

And such person shall be liable to a penalty of not lees than five shillings and not exceeding one pound for a first offence, and not exceeding two pounds for every subsecuent offence.