SOUTHERN MAORI

Hokitika Guardian, 25 July 1932, Page 5

SOUTHERN MAORI

MR W. KATENE j . ' • . . ' 'i ’ LABOUR ALLEGES TRICKERY. ; ' 1 ■' ‘■'Of- ' 1 ~ •4--. * : (Per Press Association— Copyright .l . v ’! ■■ ■. , ' i 1 : i; • . .//'.iu|j|piN, ' July .23*. Air Asher, Labour Party Organiser 'iii'the!Southern;. Maori/election, who isp ’ visiting Otago j stated-to-day that lie. ’ wnsidered that Afr/AVi Katene (Lab-1 a !our carfdidat/) .w.isiAtlie; victim of a ~ political -trick;-fiOn dheildeatii of’ JVTr Mf.ldtan a ra,, M. P ■. : the Native Minister t had teiegrapllfetl to Mi: Wi : Katene sug-'l • gesting- an interyiiqW/with' - him with i . ireference; to his.-standiiig in the Governnient’s interests..D/ y On Alr Katen'e asking what that pro j , . IpoSal meant-, the Minister announced \ that Mr.Patata’s /nomination had ..heeu'.i ■'-// settled by the-Prime Minister. ' 'At the last, general election, said Mr ; Asher,;Mr Wi Kateue was told by the » Chief Electoral Officer ’that tKe Euro-. ' peanisatiou of his lands; had not af- '• febtad him standing'for a Maori elecs-. j tora-w, and,'in Air Asher's' opinion, the ;• Government was merely taking these jl--to disbar its most dangerous op- ‘ ponent, ‘ Be. held the. Native Alinister. i\ was responsible and ,he considered the -p * attitude taken/'Up an insult to tlie -. South Ishtiid Maori*, ' / " " :: .■: : / REJECTION OF NOMINATION.

1 ' . WELLINGTON. July 28, / v / Mr Hiiri Wi Katene, whose, fiomina- / tlonV as. the ’official Labour candidate . for the Southern. Maori seat, was re. ' jiHilwl on the ground . that .lie . was,\a European, arrived in Wellington this / morning, i and confer i ed ' with repre- ; seii,tad ves of the New Zealand Labour J Party. '- V/''' I-':’..'/;! ■>/■■: ffi

1 of the Labbur Party stated that if..it, were found, v that tlie, rejection.'i of Mr Katene’s | nominiition was illegal,-- steps would be taken % to hav© iii« nomination reconsidered. ,He said it was diffi'ailt.>6 .4 ujidersfand why :'Mr • W.,' , Katene, 'had- ' fipt been informed .earlier of lii s ,al- ' leged ineligibility,-; : . ”; - :