FUTURE OF THE MAORI.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 144, 15 July 1909, Page 2

FUTURE OF THE MAORI.

m } DEPENDENT UPON WOEK. ' i SOUND ADVICE. '" " 1 By Telegraph.—Press Association, ,£ Auckland, Last Night. 4 "Fusion or no fusion," said Mr. C. S J. Parr, chairman of the Auckland Edu- y° cation Board, referring to-day to the ''% ! Hon. Ngata's remarks on the aims of ,J the Young Maori Party. "The saW* i tion of the Maori lies in work. As to • . A fusion of blood by inter-marriage,- I '■ 8 think B\ich a possibility is remote. Tho -. .uj product of inter-racial marriage has not S always proved snttefuetory, either from '% (he point of view of rdiysume or charac- 's| tcr and morality. /The children of such 1 marriages often possess the vices of S both races, and very litUe of- the vir- 8 tucs of cither of them. My humblo \« opinion of the Maori as' one who has % grown up alongside him in this country -J is that his only salvation in plenty of -H hard work. The only justification for' & Ihe future existence of the Maori it . J lhat he should be made to work. How Ti much better it would be for the Maori S :f instead of sitting down and drawing 'H rents he had,,like the pakeha, to earn -' bis bread by the sweat of his brow. The ■ J Hate should encourage the Maoris U» become not Wily farmers but artisans. "i Ihi'.v have unmwtakiihk' mechanical ton-lU-ncuti, and whe'n they are compelled to work to get their bread there are <to ' better workers. If the Maori has no de- . „ | Mie like other races to work for hit .'. 1 bread, then let him die outj the soon«r the better. If „ o rk is the policy of tli» loijiur Maori Party, then I quite sympathise with them. I think that sufficient hind ought to bo kept for tho -Maori to f arm himself, and that the inland- should be sold, til* pWeds to be placed in the hands of the Public J rustee .with .power to expend it for tho I benefit of the Maoris' family in educat- >' nig tliem, in training them for their < life a work, and in keeping them in sick- 3 ness, and so preventing them from bo« I coming a \ nm \ m m t)le state," «j