TANGLE AND WAKES.
hi ihe gravely humoiou:. manner which the .Maori knows hew to use, Air Cru amused (lie House of Representatives oji Thursday witli ;t serious grievance. He complained that; disei'iminu!ion was being' shown againsl Maoris who wislu.nl to Havel on ordinary business on railways in Canterbury. Apparently i( was assumed that no Maori wished to travel for any purpose except a (angi. Therefore a railway bar bad been put on the Maoris “singularly, plural ly, and in a body.” if the authorities aeted thus against the Maoris, why did they not behave similarly against the Irish.
A. member: What about the Scotch? Air Cm : “I don't know about the Scotch, but 1 do know about the Irish. Mow do wo know that the Irish on the trains are not going to a wake?” The Hon. G. W. Russell said that the prohibition was only in regard to lang'is. No Maori was (o be slopped from travelling in (lie (rains in (he ordinary eonrse of business. Steps would lie taken to stop any diserimination of the kind mentioned bv Mr.Uni.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1909, 30 November 1918, Page 3
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181TANGLE AND WAKES. Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1909, 30 November 1918, Page 3
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