INQUIRY EXTENDED

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 762, 7 September 1929, Page 6

INQUIRY EXTENDED

MORE EVIDENCE ON MISCEGENATION

MAORIS AND ASIATICS Additional evidence on the problem of Asiatic influence among Maoris is to be heard by the Committee of Inquiry in Auckland. The evidence was to have been concluded this morning:, but It has iiow been decided to hear probably seven more witnesses on Monday morning. Testimony has been given by about 15 witnesses since the inquiry began. Dr. T. J. Hughes, chairman of the inquiry, said this morning it was expected that evidence would be heard at Pukekohe on Wednesday morning. The committee would sit in Pukekohe courthouse. Before the hearing at Pukekohe, Chinese gardens in the vicinity of the City would be inspected, and, later, a tour of provincial areas would complete the committee’s programme of investigation. The Asiatic problem has come under the consideration of the Auckland women’s branch of the New Zealand Labour Party. A resolution passed by the branch draws the attention of the Minister of Native Affairs, Sir Apirana Ngata, to the branch’s opinion that mingling of Maori girls with Chinese is purely an economic problem. As a solution of the miscegenation, the branch suggests the formulation of a plan to assist Maori girls to attain economic and social independence. Consideration of the civic rights of Maoris and Chinese both in any remedy of the problem is urged in the resolution.