JACK MAORI GOING TO THE DOGS.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 1 May 1914, Page 6

JACK MAORI GOING TO THE DOGS.

A lamentable aspect of Maori life in New Zpalaud at the present time is the hist for amusement and the encouragement given to indolence,' says the v Wairarapa Age." A few years ago the natives of the Wairarapa cropped their lands and grew sufficient quantities of potatoes, maize, melons, and pumpkins to maintain them during the greater portion of the year. To-day these natives, or a largre portion of them, are content to ride about in motor cars, attend picture shows and race meetings, and squander the remnant of thpir estate in riotous living. They have no ambition, no desire to cultivate their land, no thought for the future of their race. Under such conditions, it is easy to prophesy what the future will be. In a very few years the native population will become a charge upon the State It is the duty of the Government, while it offers every facility for the profitable occupation of native- lands, to see that the natives are not permitted to fritter away their estate, and that they recognise their responsibilities as citizen of the Dominion.