Fusion of the Races.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 24 August 1910, Page 4

Fusion of the Races.

HON. A. NGATA ON THE QUESTION. For some time the leaders of the Young Maori Party .have bom preao'iing the dkx'trine of i'-ision, and I)r Ponurre, the Ohiief Native Officer, has practically- looked Inward to the creation of a oeopJe which will blend— '1 he white man's more mind The poet Maomi trend. Speaking in the House of Representatives on Friday, the Hon. A. T Ngat-a made reference to the race tjuestiou. He said the Uoviviinent had taken up the question of supplying nurses to Maoris as fur as the means at their disposal and tie material at hand would allow, hw, nurses were now doing good workone at Tanpo and one on the Wfst Coast--and as others became *irailahle they would .replace some of the subsidised medical men now working to the native policy of Mr Herries" Mr Ngata pointed out" ffliat some, six years ago Air Herries had said the ultimate" .volution was an lintermingIjng oi' races—a new Maori AngloSaxon race, or white race, with a dash of the best coloured blood in the wor Id. TJ lis anticipated by several years the views expressed b\ him (the speaker) last year in connection with the Young Maori Party. Ilie goal r,'f the lion, member I'oi Tauranga was similar to that of the Young Maoni Party, but after it -hi'.. been expressed by the Young Maori Party, a series of interviews in Auckland proved the opinion there to be against the firdon of blood by marriage. This view, he believed, represented the opinion of the majority of the thinking people of New Zealand. Mriefl.v, bhe policy of the member for Tauranga was to throw the_ Maori on his own resources, which policy uifFored from that of the Leader of the Opposition, who had stated that the M aori should be compelled! to retain sufficient ""ik! from which to make a living. Mi Ngata proceeded to outline a series of rescilutions tabled by the Native Minister in 1888. but which wert never moved. This provided that it was desirable, as far as practicable. that all unnecessary distinction between the inhabitants oif Inis dominion should be abolished; thai the statutes should be such as to obliterate differences ibetween the races, and that wherever possible there should be complete equality. The Leader of the Opposition t» ied to make out that he (Mir Ngata) and the Native Minister were trying to draw a colour line. He could say there was no legislation in the New Zealand statutes which differentiated between the Maori and the pakeha as such.