MAORI ON THE AIR
. Sir,-I read the nonsense written by "Pakeha Maori" about pronunciation of Maori by radio announcers, and I am sure that the sympathy of all reasonable people will be reserved for the announcers. Why keep up this pretence? Most of the Maoris anglicise their own place names, and nothing ‘that the purists may do can arrest this tendency. I worked for years among Maoris and ‘now I wonder who listens to the news in Maori. Most of the younger generation prefer English, mainly because there is no literature in Maori; and the | older generation all understand English nowadays. The younger and brighter Maoris, who have no vested interest in the old order, desire to identify themselves with the Pakeha, and would be pleased if special legislation for Maoris, the Department of Maori Affairs, and special electorates for Maoris were all dispensed with. The best Maoris want a real, not an artificial, equality with the Pakeha, and if in the meantime the Maori language is lost, are there not bigger and more important things? There is no sound reason why we should maintain any distinction between Maori and Pakeha. Unless Maoris are given full citizenship, and if they continue: to increase in numbers as at present, a time will surely come when bad feeling will develop between the two races, as has already happened in America. —
ANOTHER PAKEHA MAORT
(Lowry Bay).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 482, 17 September 1948, Page 5
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233MAORI ON THE AIR New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 482, 17 September 1948, Page 5
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