MAORI WOMEN
STATEMENT BY REV. SEAMER
.By Telegraph—Per Press Association.!
CAMBRIDGE, October 17
Interviewed, Rev. A. J. Seamer (Superintendent of the .Methodist Maori Missions throughout New Zealand) who is visiting Cambridge, declared the many reports circulated concerning the. mixing df Maori women with Asiatics, particularly Chinese, were grossly exaggerated. The evil, such as it was, arose from economic causes. Times had been hard and Maori women were glad to take employment, while market gardeners were glad to secure their services, as Maori women were usually more efficient than men. Only one social worker was engaged amongst those women. It was an absolute libel to say Maori women were more immoral than their sisters working in the cities, or that they were subjected to greater temptations. However, housing conditions were bad, though not worse than those endured by Maoris working periodically for potato growers and others. Concerning the wider question of Asiatics in the Dominion, Rev. Seamer said the mission objected strongly to male Asiatics being domiciled here unless they brought wives of their own race with them.
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 October 1929, Page 5
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