MAORI ADVICE.
Making his Address-in-Reply speech in English, which did not cause him to lose the characteristic touch of Maori imagery, Mr. T. Makitanara, Southern Maori member, kept his colleagues in the House very interested and amused with his observations on cuj rent problems. . He blamed pur education system mainly for encouraging the drift to the towns. “The education system is all white shirts, and hard ones at that. Then they go to town and run round to jazzes.” His contrast between the pictures painted for immigrants in the former Government’s literature and the way in which new arrivals found themselves knocked round from pillar to post was vivid, and led up naturally to an emphatic declaration of the reason why the people changed the Government. The two stories were heard by the electors, who decided to send the old Government on its way, and he could assure everyone that the United Party would not commit political suicide through being led by the nose by any other party. “The people say to us, ‘Be bold. Carry out your ipoliey, and we are behind you.’ ”
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Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3970, 13 July 1929, Page 3
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184MAORI ADVICE. Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3970, 13 July 1929, Page 3
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