MAORI RACE
HIGH RATE OF INCREASE There was nil urgent need for a constructive interest in the. Maoii race, Avhose rate of increase at present was three times that of the white jicople within the Dominion, stated the Rev. G. D. Laurenson, Auckland, superintendent ol the Methodist Maori Mission, at the Hamilton Rotary Club. Between 1926 and 191J6, he said, the white people had increased 10.69 per cent in comparison with the Maoris' increase for the same period wf 29.3 per cent. The Maori people: to-day were predominantly young people, anil, today there were more Maori people under 15 years of age than all the Maoris in the Dominion 30 years ago.. With so many ypung people the rate of incrca.se would naturally be greater in the future. They were displaying a greater pride, of race, and there was a greater tendency to marry among themselves rather than to intermarry with Europeans. One of. the cries ol the; young Maori to-day was to have equality of opportunity.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 37, 31 December 1943, Page 7
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167MAORI RACE Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 37, 31 December 1943, Page 7
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