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

(E.) Tohungas. (Section 16, Subsection 5.)

(E.) Tohungas. (Section 16, Subsection 5.)

21.It shall not be lawful for any tohunga or alleged tohunga to cause any patient under his treatment to bathe in cold water.
22.It shall not be lawful for any such tohunga to hinder or prevent the attendance of a duly qualified medical practitioner on such patient, or the treatment of such patient with European medicines suitable to the complaint, or prescribed by a duly qualified medical practitioner.
23.It shall not be lawful for any person alleged to be a tohunga to charge any fee or reward for his services.
24.Any person committing a breach of the above by-law shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding ten pounds.
25.Wherever, on account of the practices of any person alleged to be a tohunga, he gathers a following and establishes himself in any kainga, or travels from one kainga to another with such following, so as, in the opinion of the Council or any Village Committee, to cause serious inconvenience to the inhabitants of any kainga, or to any of them, by causing waste of food or substance, or in any other way, the Counsil may, by notice in writing, direct such tohunga to desist from such practices, and if he persist the Council may impose a penalty not exceeding fifty pounds.
26.The Council may grant a license, after full inquiry, to person skilled in the use of Maori herbs or wairakau, for such term and subject to such conditions as the Council may deem fit. Such license shall have force only within the district, and the fee for the same shall be one pound per annum.