STARTLING SUGGESTION

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 43, 29 January 1943, Page 5

STARTLING SUGGESTION

ABSORBING MAORI RACE TO OVERCOME FUTURE PROBLEM "We have the Maori question to face up to," said Captain C. H. Brebner, County Engineer on leave for thd duration, when discussing suggestions for Rehabilitation at the County Council meeting last Tuesiday.

"Here is a subject which we should tackle in a national manner. The Maoris" as we all know are 'f njcreasing very rapidly and will in time become a real problem.. I would suggest thou.gh to many of you it may seem fantastic, that Ave overcome the problem by taking steps to absorb the Maori race into the Pakeha."'

This could be done by paying a bouus of £100 to every Pakeha Avho marries a Maori woman, and a further bouus of £100' to every Maori woman who produces a chi.M of mixed blood, legitimate or illcgiitmate. It is something we have to face and a thing I haves given a lot of thought to. We: would be thus overcoming a problem and establishing a better race in the process." The above remarks received the expected reception from anything so sweeping and so drastic, and comments trenchant and: otherwise flew round the council tatal'e. However it was fairly obvious that no other councillor was prepared to follow the suggestoin jip and that few took it seriously.

Prices at Auction Sale The exaggerated prices paid; for the tools and equipment from the workshop of the late Mr H. Wheelock at the auction sale last Saturday serves further to illustrate the unthinking attitude of the. usual person attending such sales. According to one hardware manager who was present, 50 per cent of the tools sold were: procurable in town to-day while; 75 per cant fetched more than the ruling retail l prices in spite of the fact that they were second-hand. American Chivaltry American soldiers at present in this country are continually surprising New Zealanders: with their spontaneous acts' of generosity and; chivalry. The. latest, illustration was told in an; interview with Driveir E. L. Jarvis, of Invercargill, who has recently returned to New Zealand after service in the Middle East. Private Jarvis was walking along a wharf at Wellington when his hat was, blown from his. head into the seia by a gust, of Avind. Private Jarvis regarded the hat as lost for ever when an American soldier dived, fully clad, into the sea, 10 feet below. Swimming strongly, he soon rescued the hat and restored it to its highly gratified owner. He then hoarded a bus and was borne away with his. sopping Clothing clinging to his body.