MAORI REPRESENTATION.
Jit is about time that the European population of New Zealand insisted, updn ill 6 wiping out of that legislation which' provides for ■ the special. representation of the. Native raw in Parliament.' When it is remembered that .the representative of the Southern Maori electorate has only a couplfi of hundred constituents, and that upon this legislator's vote the expressed will of the European population was flouted in the recent Parliamentary division, it "will be recognised how, necessary it is that a change should be made. There can be no possible defence to a .system which permits an aboriginal Native, representing two or three hundred of his race, exercising the same rights and privileges iu Parliament as the European representative of a constituency of 10,000 electors.'
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10582, 13 March 1912, Page 4
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127MAORI REPRESENTATION. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10582, 13 March 1912, Page 4
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