SCRUTINEERS WANTED.
"TO ALLAY MAORI UNEASINESS."
(By Telegraph.—Parliamentary Reporter.) V\ ELLINGION, this dav.
Over 300 natives of the Tokerau district have petitioned Parliament through the Northern Maori member, Mr. fau Henare, praying that at the coming Parliamentary elections scrutineers on behalf of Maori candidates be allowed to sit with the returning officers. "We humbly pray that this power bo given us to allay the feeling- of uneasiness on the part of the Maoris a- to the genuineness of Maori vote- cast, and in order to carry out the provisions of the Treaty of Waitanpi, viz., "Imparts to them all the righto and privileges of British subjects,"
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 230, 28 September 1928, Page 7
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106SCRUTINEERS WANTED. Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 230, 28 September 1928, Page 7
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