THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES.
-MAORI LOGIC. A high-class Maori was last week told of the Chinese proverb: “If an idle;/ man eats, an industrious man goes hungry.” Thereupon, replying through an interpreter, he told that only that day a police constable had approached him concerning the desirability of giving an old age pension to another Maori. Answering the constable, he said: “I decline to say anything about it. My idea is that a pension .• should be given to one who works, not to one who would not work.” Ideas of social justice are evidently still extant among the Maoris. , ' ;...
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Hokitika Guardian, 7 July 1930, Page 4
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99THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES. Hokitika Guardian, 7 July 1930, Page 4
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