Sacramental Wine Is
p. 77 · Read in the full issue
Permitted Now
APPARENTLY someone made the startling discovery recently that every Australian aboriginal and New Guinea native who has taken wine as part of a Church Sacrament has been guilty of an offence against Common wealth law.
Under the law it is illegal for any full blooded or half-caste native to accept or have liquor in his possession; or for any one to supply it to him.
A regulation was brought in, in early August, to rectify the position. A na tive may now be served with alcoholic liquor, when it is for the observance of a religious ceremony.