Kenata Kawepo, a well-known Hawke's Bay chief, is an eminently practical man. He de clines to bring the Native Licensing Act into force at Omahu, because the fines imposed under it can only be spent in administering the Act. He has, however, passed a strict law of his own, by which any of his people getting drunk are fined L 2. The fines, too, are rigidly enforced, and Benata has now over L4OO in the bank, as the result of the fondness of his people for liquor. He follows out the subsidy idea, and has announced his intention of giving from his own pocket LI for every LI received for fines. The money iB to be devoted to metal ling the road from Taradale to Omahu. This iB a genuine novelty in temperance legislation, especially the subsidy part of the business.
