DIRTY PAKEHAS
NOT ALWAYS MAORIS TO BLAME BOROUGH COUNCILLOR'S CONTENTION "I see you htave been blaming the Maoris for defacing the conveniences, for ill-using the Ladies' Restroom and committing other nuisances," said Cr J. Creeke at the Borough Council meeting last Monday evening, "I can tell you there are plenty of pretty dirty Fakehas as well and its not always the Maoris.' 1 ' Cr Shapley said it was obvious after the war that the town would have to have two ladies' restrooms. Cr Canning said he understood that some of the Maoris even cooked their food in the restroom. The defacement of public conveniences, said Cr Creeke, went on all over the world. In towns where there were no Maoris, but all Europeans the same thing was. to be seen. If anything went wrong in Whakatane people had got into the habit of piling it on to the Maoris. "I can tell you there are plenty of real dirty Pakehas too, so for heaven's sake don't make a fashion of only blaming the Maoris.'" The Mayor (drily): I wonder if it was a Maori or Pakcha who flung the rotten peach through the glass door of my office. Cr Creeke: A Pakcha undoubtedlv.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 41, 22 January 1943, Page 5
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203DIRTY PAKEHAS Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 41, 22 January 1943, Page 5
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