MAORI MEMORIES
CAN THE MAORI SURVIVE? The physical and mental inferiority of the Maori today as compared with those healthy, enduring warriors of the last century, and their mental alertness to meet the emergencies of life are problems for immediate solution and urgent action. Only absolute Government control can save the race and then more than one generation will pass before much improvement is effected.
Up to 80 years ago, widely separated families and tribes fought one another, killing the men and capturing the women, bringing fresh blood as mothers to build up the coming warriors of the tribe. Where peace and plenty reigned for a generation, there followed the two causes of degeneracy, intermarriage of relatives, and inertia, so painfully apparent today.
Meantime tribes and Relatives must be separated, placed in Government houses of their own construction under skilful supervision, each having sufficient land and stock to provide, a living by reasonable effort. I believe in independent personal action,'but the Maori problem today as the result of drink and the destruction of their belief in that sacred and effective law of Tapu, offers no other solution than drastic control. - Inbred, idle, drinking people must die out. We have brought them to this point where Nature’s law, the survival of the fit, prevails. Can anyone suggest any alternative?
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 September 1939, Page 2
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218MAORI MEMORIES Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 September 1939, Page 2
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