YOUNG MAORI PARTY.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 131, 26 February 1908, Page 4

YOUNG MAORI PARTY.

J, , WHAT IT IiAS DONE COnRESPONDENT.) 1 ' -j AlloWand, February 21 Association's.con- : isferoncopr-«ttwg?{at«,Orakei this wook,. tho i- Presidont;"slr. :J-.- Thornton, informed an 111-'.^rviqwi^'.that'toil-'years'; ago tho Association : .was.'.fprmcd )hy?a-.number- of To Auto Collego !.- r stndenls;Kiis.t^iHi i d -'present:';-•-It .was felt,, to the Association Jayi in;.'tne jtendeiicyi ■to, its becoming ' a mere deliberative.>• bodym This, tondency had all ,along: been; steadily,, opposed, with tho result thp.iAsgpciation could /point not •only,-.to :■ papers, 'speeches, discussions, and /reports,- J)ut ~to -actual work dono. /■■v'.lho/Young.'Maori'TPartyby which name; ,;ihe\organisatioh;;,was'''porha|)s' more generally , known^yclaimed;'th.afVduring tlio last decade ;'a';.'grbat : iadyance'.'liad;. been .made in-Maori : 'The ' annual-reportsmado this'abun-dantly-clear.-. "SneaKing gonorally," Mr. .Thornton- added, "tho. Maori is a bettor man' i to-day' than ho- was ten years' ago. Public -opinionV. which..the' Association, sot itself, to educate, has been raised toa - higher level.' '-.Ho is'now,.aibotter.liver,.;a bettor-worker, a >b'etter- v Then, lie drinks' 'lpss,-. and,' hotter clad;; His children . are- bettor-:--educated, ,;and when' ;they. cijSi tbijeafs of'iidiscretion they, arp" ' foiihd'seeklng-iilseful splior'es in 'lifo'.for'them-'' selves \ ' t •:".-'!lt is 'not,- 'claimed that' tho ob- / jectsV ofv.i:he : -Associ!itibn \: are - fully : ; accomplished.•''Siich a clainV'woiild bo absurd.. A race is not day, and there'is much yet fo be dono'. ; ,Vßut the results already attained .are such as to "encourage :tbo Asso- 1 .ciation ,to ipprsevpr,|-,.i)i ; ;its labour of. lovo, . and ( 'tc! warrant - theViM^imption l - that 'another ■ ten' years .of : work' /will sco a still moro marked-' improvement in itlio 'standard - of . Maori life." / ' •