CONFIDENCE OF THE RACE,
The Native Minister has throughout retained the confidence of the Maori representatives in Parliament and their people outside. His early association with the race has given him invaluable insight into its mind and heart, and a just appraisal of the difficulties. As an administrator and legislator he has not hesitated to give practical shape to various schemes, applied where circumstances required1, for the piecemeal solution of Native land difficulties, and, while thereby promoting the general settlement by pakeha and Maori of the Native land of the Dominion, has
sought to improve the conditions and position of the Maori people in other respects. Ho has recognised, too, that the root of many of the difficulties has boon many an old-standing grievance. The proposal he announced towards the end of the 1925 session to set up a Commission to investigate and report on some of these grievances, particularly those relating to confiscated lauds, is the .most serious and far-reaching promise yet made to tackle what is the Maori problem for more than half of tho race, the solution of which will clear tho mental outlook of that portion with results in the future that must be beneficial.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 57, 4 September 1926, Page 12
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199CONFIDENCE OF THE RACE, Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 57, 4 September 1926, Page 12
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