MAORI CONGRESS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 55, 8 November 1907, Page 3

MAORI CONGRESS.

• '— To Meet at Wellington,

A Maori congress will be held at Wellington next year, when the representation will consist of the following sections of the Moari social organisation: —Maori Councils, Native Department, and Native Minister ; the Health Department, through medical officers and sanitary inspectors ; the Church, through the native clergy ; Maori arts and industries and education, through Te Aute College ; Government native schools, f through the Te Rau Theological College, St. Stephen's, Three Kings, and kindred institutions (it has been decided that the heads of the last-named colleges shall bs asked to attend), the Te Aute Association,- as representatives of the dairying, pastoral, and agricultural interests. The representation of those engaged as mechanics is also provided for.

The objects of the congress will be, briefly, to enlighten the people of the Dominion in regard to the true industrial and social position of the Maori at the present time ; to afford an opportunity of summing up and tabulating what has been accomplished by Maori enterprise along various lines of progress; to demonstrate to the people of New Zealand what the Goernment has done and is doing for the Maori race; to tend to the unity of the race by defining and promulgating a race policy of progress; to exert healthy educational and stimulating influence amongst Maoris generally ; and to afford the race an opportunity that it has never yet enjoyed of making widely known through accredited and enlightened representatives its views, its needs, and its grievances.