GROWING MAORI TRAIT
STUDENTS and admirers of Maori character and culture must view with increasing concern the growing number of cases of ill-treatment of native: children by theit elders occurring in this district. Such instances of what amounts often to wanton cruelty are entirely opposed to the kindly attitude which Maoris as a race were ■ traditionally known to have towards children. Indeed it is this attribute which has so often been quoted in explanation of the sudden healthy revival of thenumerical strength of the race. Deliberate illusage of children was foreign to the Maori of old, who nevertheless could be; harshly fair when occasion warranted it. The new wave of cruelty by certain types, male and female seems to be more or less of modern origin and again we ask in perplexity—does it too, date back to Pakeha attitude or example.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 44, 28 January 1944, Page 4
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141GROWING MAORI TRAIT Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 44, 28 January 1944, Page 4
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