INEXPERIENCED.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 163, 10 July 1914, Page 6

INEXPERIENCED.

MAORI MEMBER OIT THE MINIS TRY. NATIVE LAND ACT RIDICULED. (By Tclefc-rspli.—Parliamentary Reporter.l WELLINGTON: Thursday. 'Hip member for the Southern Maori district im severe in his critici.-'m on the Native Minister ami h-i-s Native Lund Act. mid wiu crushingly severe on the H<>n. I)r P.imare. when s*|xakinir in the House this afternoon. Diseu.seing the Hon. Mr. Herries. he said: "Wliat does he really knew about native affairs'' A man comes from England, farms a little bit. and then po.-es as a native affairs expert. Ha-* lie ever conducted a case before the Native Land Court? What does lie know of the <j<>in<r- of the Native Department! He leaves. Home, and le conies a Maori kin.i; in this llou.se. vet he knows no more about the natives or native land transitions than do my boot*." (Opposition applause and laughter.) Continuing, Mr Parata. a.-ided-. -The Act he passed has been working twfivp moiiclis. and it is f;oin<* to swajnp the department. Why. all the little oflice boys in the department are latlfrhins at it. It is ;roin;r to cost his oflice £ 4.0<)0 « year. That is what comes of pirttinjr a man to be Native MinUter who knows nothinp about the practical RiuVof native affairs.•' -And as to liis lierirliman." - said the member in a voice vibrant with contempt, "he fvrtainlv knows nothing: he is nothing but a cub so far us native affairs arc concerned. I c'nalienjre the hon. gentleman u> say -what experience he has had in Native Lind Court*. He may know a little about smallpox— llaujrhwri—but. whatever little he knows, he came, liore on the vote of Liberal Maoris, and a* an elc.trr] Lib (ml. He lias dishonoured his vote." Mr Speaker ealletl tlie member to order, whereupon Mr P.irata contended that the natives who had voted for Dr Pomarc had been practically disfranchised. "Hivote here IS a dishonourable vole.' , e\ claimed Mr L'arata. who was promptly! ruled mil of order apiin. The mcinJipiY niter further caustic criticism of the Minister rpprf-sentinp j tlie native race 0:1 the Bxectuive. eoncludmi: "Hut when next. November 1 "incH he Mill, in common with his present political friends. l>e relocated Riiri'ly to the dnstlieap." 1 Laufrhtcr. and Opposition applause. 1 A MINISTER'S REPIA. The Hon. Dγ Pomare, who followed, demanded what had the Government which Mr Parata's father had followed faithfully for twenty-two ypar* done for the native race, and added: "The Ministers in tin , hon. £ rllt le."tfni's (lov-e-nment passed .1 bill in 1802 vfhic'l alienated !:10.000 acres of Maori land for all linn , . I wns asked by the natives who had been divested of their lands not to support Sir -Tames Carroll or his colleague*, but u> rijrht. the wronjrs that had been done to them by tin; Liberal Government. K«ivirna>Pnt applaufo.) I would iidviFe :!■•• hoi:. i_entleman who talk- uli.iiit ir t.> ask th'! Ward Adrnini«traUon an-! in a~k the Mackenzie Administration what they thought about inc." Opposition members: (live it to liim yourself. The Minister, ijmorinz the invitation. demande 1 why. if he wre supposed t > support tlie Liberal Administration, did the Ministers of that Government send telegrams wholesale telilnp the Maoris to vote against Pomare. I'fioverninen; lauchtcr.i