STILL A CHILD
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Maori Needs Guidance and Help Bj;SH0P BENNETTS PLEA
(By Telegranh-
AUCKLAND, This Day*. "The mistake that most people make is in treating the Maori as an adult, when in point of coinparison with the .pakeha, he is a child. The pakeha is two thoiisaiid years old and the Maori only one hundred." So said the Rev. F. A. Bennet, Bishop of Aotearoa, speaking of recent disclosures of Maori 1 conditions in North Auckland. It was, he said, a tribute to the t Maori that in all ways the pakeha should treat him as an equal, but in a number of cases it had bad fesults. The Maori needed to be led kindly and helpfully in the form of guafdianship. If a leader of his own race was hot possible, a pitkeha whom the Maoii would respect and trust could do A lot towards controlling and organising the Maori for modern conditions 6f life.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 17, 4 February 1937, Page 5
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