“Chances There, But Maori A Lazy Person”
(New ZealaiLd Press Association)
ROTORUA, April 28. The Maori was a lazy person who did not take full advantages of the opportunities offered him in New Zealand, said the deputy Malayan Public Trustee (Mr K. Paramalingam) in Rotorua yesterday. He said Maoris should take more active part in the civil services. State affairs, and, in particular, the professions. “The chances are there for him to succeed, but, as far as I can see, he does not make use of them,” Mr Paramalingam said. “The harmony existing between the two races in New Zealand is something to be marvelled at, but nearly all the top positions are held by Europeans. “The fact that there is
equal opportunity for both races to succeed suggests laziness on the part of the Maori.”
Mr Paramalingam is in New Zealand to study how the Maori Affairs Department and the Public Trust Office deal with the problems of succession to land titles and fragmentation. “Similar problems to what you have here in regard to land titles exist in Malaya and what I find here will help me shed new light on them. In Malaya, though, it is worse." Mr Paramalingam, an English-educated Malayan, said his office administered the estates of Malayans, Moslems. Chinese and Hindus—all according to their different laws.
He came to New Zealand because its Public Trust at 88 years was the oldest in the world. The Malayan office was 40 years old. Mr Paramalingam will concentrate his studies on three main topics—the Public Trust system of branch offices, the “common fund" administered by the Maori Trust Office and the Public Trust, and the training scheme for juniors run by the Public Trust. In 1958 Mr Paramalingam made a tour of English trust offices, and his findings here vzill be complementary to what he learned then.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29500, 29 April 1961, Page 12
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