MAORI POLICY COMMITTEE
Recommendations To Conference
(New Zealand. Press Association) WELLINGTON, May 6.
New Zealand should have a new public holiday to commemorate the signing of the Treaty cf Waitangi. The Labour Party’s annual conference in Wellington decided this today. This was the main recommendation of the Maori policy committee’s report, which was endorsed by the conference.
The report called for “a new outlook- for the Maori people.” The period- of first contact between Maori and pakeha had finished, and the position of the two peoples called for a ‘‘general review.”
Several Maori speakers said that Maori land laws were based on the provisions of the Treaty of Waitangi. Was it not time, they asked, for the laws to be reviewed? The report urged “a more vigorous development policy” for Maori lands. Another suggestion was for a Minister of Maori Affairs ‘‘to coordinate all administrative functions of the Maori people,” with “full representation on the Executive Council.”
The present basis of Maori representation in Parliament should not be changed, “in view of world trends against the submergence of non-European minorities,” the report said. It would be unwise, however, to ignore the future of such representation. A plan to arrange representation on the same proportionate basis as for European electors should be considered.
The loyalty of the Maori people to the principles of the Labour Party was an accepted fact, but lately there had been a happy reawakening of this vital interest, said the committee’s chairman (Mr E. T. Tirikatene, M.P.). The committee, he said, warned of the need for constant vigilance to ensure the fast-increasing Maori race did not become an economic problem in the community. The time to study such problems was before they arose.
Air Crash Victim.— Lieutenant R. W. Andrews, one of the two remaining survivors of 35 persons in the Viking which crashed near Blackbushe Airport on Wednesday night, died in hospital yesterday. The last man alive, Second-Lieu- ■ tenant E. E. Taylor, is still i dangerously ill.—Aidershot, May
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Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28270, 7 May 1957, Page 15
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