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THE MAORI PROBLEM. Mr Carroll and his associates always assume that they speak on behalf of the Maori people and that their legislation is inspired and their administration governed by a desird to further the best interests of the .Maori race. But Mr Earata. puts forward another phase of the Maori problem, showing that some thousands of our aboriginal fellow citizens ask only to be freed from their disabilities, and to be vested in return with all the responsibilities of the European. Mr Parata tells us that he and his friends "want no taihoa," and quotes Mr Carroll himself as saying In 1887 that "the time had come when the "Maori should be put upon the same footing as the European." We may differ upon details with Mr Parata, says the "New Zealand Herald," %ut there can be no possible question,, among honest men, that the Native problem has been treated in a shamefully negligent manner, and that the Maori has been generally impoverished by the pretentious policy which has denied settlers access to the Native Lands.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9671, 20 December 1909, Page 4
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179TOPICAL READING. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9671, 20 December 1909, Page 4
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