TREATY OF WAITANGI.
ANNIVERSARY RECOGNISED. 1 _ 1 i RADIO ADDRESS BY MR. COATES. i < (By Telegraph.—Fress Association). \ WELLING! ON, Monday, j' To-day is the eighty-eighth anniver-j 1 sary of the signing of the Treaty oL Waitangi, by which the representative chiefs of the Maori tribes of New Zealand ceded to the Queen of England all their rights of sovereignty, by wh\ch Her Majesty extended to the Maoris her Royal protection and imparted to them all the rights and privileges of British subjects. Some of the beneficial results cf that compact were mentioned by the Prime Minister, Mr. Coates, in .an address broadcast from station 2YA to-night, reference being made also to the valiant way in which the natives proved their loyalty during the Great War. - The historical aspects of the treaty were dealt with in a speech by the Hon. Sir Maui Pomare, who also paid a tribute to the manner in which the present Government had interpreted the true spirit_4>f the- compact.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 31, 7 February 1928, Page 10
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