MAORI PROBLEMS
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SYMPATHETIC APPROACH
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NAPIER, Marcii 21. Tliat tlie Maori people were possessed of new vitality, new vigour, new visiui; and new earnestness, was the statemeni made by Bishop Bennett in an addres.to the final session of the New Zealand Rotar.v conference this afternoon. Bishop Bennett stresSed that, from ' a declining population of 40,000 (ift.v years ago, the Maori race was inereasing, Witlr a population of just on 100,000 todav. "The Maori race is not going back.' said Bishop Bennett. " lt is going ahead and making new progress in manv spheres of our civilised work." The Bishop remarked that, of ihe 3380 liicii who coniprised the Maori Hattalion, 2,19 5 had been listed as easual ties. He stressed that the Maori was a child of' the land, which was his native environment, but unfortunately onlv a quarter of the land needed for settlement of the Maori race was avaiiable.^ Appealing for a sympathetic approach to this and other prol)lems aff'eeting his people, the bishop observed that the good that would result wotild be reflected on the pakelia race as a double blessing for thc years to coine.
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Chronicle (Levin), 22 March 1946, Page 2
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