73:, government involvement declined, so it was not until the Māori Social and Economic Advancement Act 1945 that Tribal Executives got power to nominate and control Māori wardens in their current form. The formation of the Maori Warden system after 1945 was in response to government and community concerns that Maori could not handle alcohol responsibly. The Māori Social and Economic Advancement Act 1945 gave Maori Wardens "powers of preventing drunkenness and of otherwise controlling the consumption of alcoholic liquor among Maoris". Section 7 of the 1962 Act gave responsibility for Māori Wardens to District
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said the law was "antiquated and outdated" and seemed racist. He stated "At the end of the day if someone's removed from a bar it should be because they're underage or they're intoxicated. Ethnicity's got nothing do with it." Māori
Wardens responded by stating that they used Māori values to support
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Wardens, setting out options for the organisation's future administration and role. In July 2019 representatives at a national conference of Māori Wardens discussed ways to modernise the organisation and a working group was set up to consult with the
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has a regional entity that represents them. The six regional entities, and their rohe, are: Nga
Purapura (Te Tai Tokerau, Tāmaki and Tāmaki ki te Tonga); Te Rohe Pōtae (Waikato, Hauraki, Maniapoto); Volcanic Interior Plateau/Central (Waiariki, Tauranga Moana, Mataatua, Aotea, Taranaki); Te
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and protect people of all ethnicities. In 2016 lawyer Graeme
Edgeler described the Māori Community Development Act 1962 as New Zealand's "most racist law" and several politicians backed his call to repeal the legislation.
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