SIR APIRANA NGATA.
WILL NOT SEEK RE-ELECTION. WELFARE OF MAORI PEOPLE. MEASURES FOR. STABILITY. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Monday. The Press Association is officially informed that Sir Apirana Ngata, Minister of Native Affairs, has finally decided not to seek re-election for the Eastern Maori district at the expiration of the present Parliament.
Sir Apirana Ngata, who is known .as the "Father of the House," stated at a Maori gathering at Rotorua. recently that if he was elected for another term of the New Zealand Parliament he would j probably not seek re-election at the end of that term. He had put in train the final measures of the programme to which he had committed himself, and | expected these measures to have achieved j stability before the next Parliament completed its term. His reason for seeking re-election on this occasion, Sir 'Apirana Ngata said, was that he had in hand, as Native Minister, certain works for the benefit of the Maori people. Also, lid was getting on in years and wished to end his days in peace among his own people on the East Coast.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 290, 8 December 1931, Page 8
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