“Only one regret I have,” said the Rev. It. Koliere, recently, referring to the results of he .Maori Congress, ‘‘and that is the swamping of the sessions of the Congress by pakeha speakers. Their speeches were long, often wearying, and monotonously irrelevant, and most of these discourses were meant rather for the public ear than for the ears of those who were present.” One European spoke drearily forever half an hour about Switzerland, at a meeting at which the Maori hoped to hear something about openings in local industry. They asked instruction in ways and means of winning bread, says the “Post,” and the British orator threw Swiss clocks at them.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2263, 7 August 1908, Page 3
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