CORRESPONDENCE.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 53, 4 March 1926, Page 12

CORRESPONDENCE.

•- \ N.Z. NATIVES' ASSOCIATION. ! (To the Editor.) Sir, —At the initial meeting of the above association, it was reported in j your columns that !Mr. Schramm said that when he walked across Grafton Bridge and looked on the tomb of Governor Hobson, he thought it was an astounding disgrace that something had not been odne to perpetuate the memory of that great man. It may be interesting to observe that Governor Hobson was not a native of New Zealand—lie was an Irishman—and consequently he would | be barred from membership of the as-: soeiation—where curiously enough . his j memory and name are apparently revered! Tn passing, however, it may be further observed that his grave and tombj are by no means obscured, and that a ! body consisting of the flower of Young : New Zealand —the boy scouts —rarely neglect the grave of our first Governor— ' 11 man who raised the Imperial Standard ' hore and reconciled the aboriginal natives of this country to the Empire at Wai- j tmgi eighty-rive years ago. What greater , monument does Mr. Schramm desire? ] am, etc.. SEUMAS DAIRMUID. iTo the Editor/) I Sir, —Kindly permit mc as a visitor p from overseas to remark that the i X.vi.X.A. is the most original and amusI ing I have met in my travels through I sixteen different countries and States. I Whilst we in the Homeland are fighting I for preference for colonial products, they, lon the other hand, say we are going to j have preference for colonials. Home ! business people here with sons colonial I born are in the following position: Sons ! eligible, fathers not. The tail wags the dog. The writer's brother in Christchurch lias five children, three "Homies." two colonial —two tails wag five dogs. I Aliens become naturalised, adopt British j name*, marry colonials or '"Ilomies," and I their children are eligible. Thousands of "Homies" fought alongside colonials i for Xew Zealand. Althougii the GovernI iiient g' Vt -' s them the same privileges as j colonials, they are not eligible, but their offspring are. The Maoris, the true I owners of Xew Zealand, are invited to their own feasf.—l am, etc., SCOTCH MOTHER.