A MAORI GATHERING.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 655, 4 November 1909, Page 7

A MAORI GATHERING.

J ' 4 1. "TEE.VTKD LTKE SPOON-PDD CHILDREN " The delegates from the Taranaki Natives , Aesaeial.nn, to the number of about seventj, who are at present m Wolllhgton, are holding L o L moetn, ? e «i meters of special in- ?^ m A at fe CM thD d retVrp to New t . r Jl e PWMrfinK =o far hare been private, 'nit the results mil, it is stated, b* made pnMin later. The nowe of a lady talegi e, ex)H«ecd in no uncertain manner, are not complimonturj to the Government. "The Gws-nment treats the Natives like 'spoon«d ohildieu," «Md t'jo detegite "Formerly, rfhen we w«r« savages' and could not speak English, U were Mipp O <ed to bo ablo to look afkr oiiMlve-- and the pakoha people induced fflj■ ancc'tjH to sign the Treaty o: Waitangi, now that ire are civilised and can ->peilv Eur. llsh, and sit Up to a nic-oly-laid u'blo and eat with a knife and for]-, wo are trcateJ liko enilrtren by the Government, We aro isst as capable ot looking after onr'afFain- ai our Jlftou in Parliament are, aiid *<■ Tvciit (o be- put oti an oqual footing Hith > onr pakehi fnendb"