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MAORI PROBLEMS TO-DAY: A_ Short | Survey by R. L. Meek. Progressive Publishing Society, Wellington. HE purpose of this book no doubt is to make available for a florin what would otherwise cost a pound. The books on which it is based would, in fact, cost two or three pounds if anybody to-day decided to buy them; and there is the consideration in addition that most people would sooner read 50 pages than 500. It cannot, therefore, be said that such obvious borrowings are without excuses. But they are not sufficiently excused either by the author or by his publishers, since the publishers do not say at all that the book is something between a paraphrase and a precis, and the author does not say with sufficient plainness how freely he has drawn on others. For it is not as if his purpose had been to present a personal viewpoint. He says quite clearly that this was not his purpose; and even if he had not said so, it would hardly have been -possible in his space to fill in so much background and at the same time advance and support a new theory. What he does do, however, he does extremely well, whether he is summarising someone else or explaining why more background knowledge is necessary.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 10, Issue 239, 21 January 1944, Page 15
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218THE MAORI New Zealand Listener, Volume 10, Issue 239, 21 January 1944, Page 15
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