SETTLEMENT SUGGESTED
CENTENNIAL GESTURE (Parliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON, this day. If the Maori people are to put their whole minds and hearts into the celebration of New Zealand’s centennial, their long-standing grievances over a century should be adjusted, said Mr. P. K. Faikea (Lab., Northern Maori) in the House of Representatives yesterday. Without putting any deep meaning into the matter he would, he said, suggest that but for the Treaty of Waitangi which the Nga.puhis signed, there would not have been a centennial year nor art exhibition. They knew that the French were after this country at the same time, but because ot the quick action of Governor Hobson. the South. Island was proclaimed a British colony a!t Akaroa. Whilst the Maori appreciated ‘.toe western culture brought him .by the pakeha and the social amenities which had been extended to (the race, right down in the Maori- heart still lingered a sense of the grievances of the last 100 years.
"I am not going to ask the Maori people to go on strike,” added Mr. Paikea, “but as a centennial gesture. I suggest' that due consideration be given with a view to adjustment of outstanding Maori grievances. Then the Maori can sing ‘God Defend New Zealand’ in its hundredth year.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19997, 24 July 1939, Page 7
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209SETTLEMENT SUGGESTED Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19997, 24 July 1939, Page 7
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