The fact is that the Maori of to-day is a totally different person from the Maori of yesterday," said Mr. Massey C-eader of the Opposition) to a Christchurch reporter. He added that the whole of the Maori land legislation from top to bottom should be revised in order to brine it into line with modern conditions. .As an illustration of this, he mentioned the town of Kawhia. He said that it had a splendid harbor—quite as good as Lyttelton—and first-elass Maori land in abundance all around it. Some dav Kawhia would be a larce city, but not before the tracts of Maori iands that encircled it were thrown open to settlement.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 265, 30 March 1911, Page 8
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111Page 8 Advertisements Column 5 Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 265, 30 March 1911, Page 8
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