A Maori’s Move to Form a Party
WELLINGTON, March 30 Mr O. T. Haddon, until'recently organising secretary of the Maori Advisory Council ot the New Zealand Labour Party told an interviewer the Government’s grip on the four Maori parliamentary constituencies was weakening. Ratanism. with which, he said, the Labour Party had effected a political alliance, was disintegrating. Mr Haddon is now touring Macri electorates with the object of organising an independent political group. Ratanism as a religious cult is collapsing,” said Mr Haddon. His tour was for the purpose of discovering means of more effective parliamentary representation of the Maoris without benefit or otherwise of Ratanism or anything of the kind.
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Grey River Argus, 31 March 1948, Page 2
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