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OUR TRUST FOR THE MAORI.
In a most interesting speech in the House yesterday Sir Apirana Ngata used both the particular and the general to remind the community of its duty as trustee for the Maori. One particular illustration was the association of Maoris with Chinese and Hindus in and about Auckland, to which reference was made recently in our columns. The question is both economic and moral. It will not do to say that the Maori must look after himself. The European is responsible for the present condition of the Maori and for the admission of Chinese and Hindus, and it is his duty to protect the Maori from exploitation and contamination. The results of such miscegenation will complicate the social and economic problem for both races. As Sir Apirana Ngata realises, protection is not easy to give, and he is right when, referring to the moral problem, he says that the remedy is to so improve the social and economic conditions of the, race is to make impossible the state of things to which attention has been drawn. This principle ran through his address. This leader of the Young Maori Party is as well aAvare as anyone of what has been done to preserve the Maori race and give it hope in its new world, but he sees that a great deal more is required. Recent investigations have revealed "very distressful conditions," which he thinks may be widespread. The complete "stock-taking" of the race that he suggests should not be difficult to carry out. Work, he says, is the salvation of the Maori, and especially at a time when unemployment, with all its evils, is rife, this should impress the European. In a very special sense he is his Maori brother's keeper. Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 169, 19 July 1929, Page 6
In a most interesting speech in the House yesterday Sir Apirana Ngata used both the particular and the general to remind the community of its duty as trustee for the Maori. One particular illustration was the association of Maoris with Chinese and Hindus in and about Auckland, to which reference was made recently in our columns. The question is both economic and moral. It will not do to say that the Maori must look after himself. The European is responsible for the present condition of the Maori and for the admission of Chinese and Hindus, and it is his duty to protect the Maori from exploitation and contamination. The results of such miscegenation will complicate the social and economic problem for both races. As Sir Apirana Ngata realises, protection is not easy to give, and he is right when, referring to the moral problem, he says that the remedy is to so improve the social and economic conditions of the, race is to make impossible the state of things to which attention has been drawn. This principle ran through his address. This leader of the Young Maori Party is as well aAvare as anyone of what has been done to preserve the Maori race and give it hope in its new world, but he sees that a great deal more is required. Recent investigations have revealed "very distressful conditions," which he thinks may be widespread. The complete "stock-taking" of the race that he suggests should not be difficult to carry out. Work, he says, is the salvation of the Maori, and especially at a time when unemployment, with all its evils, is rife, this should impress the European. In a very special sense he is his Maori brother's keeper. Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 169, 19 July 1929, Page 6