MAORIS AND FORESTRY.
Your correspondent "Tamehana," likft the loud-sounding calabash, is empty. Empty of those qualities which make the "rangatira," empty of all logic, and empty of constructive criticism. Mrs. Ruby E. Watson has championed the Maori cause and their rights, while she is loved and honoured by the King Country [tribes who have experienced her kindness and charity. I think I am right in saying Mrs. Watson is the only woman in New Zealand to be so honoured for her work, for preserving the bush from destruction by both the greedy '■"pakeha" and stupid Maori, that 'His Majesty's Government has appointed her a ranger of forests, so she has some authority to speak. In short, Mrs. Watson wishes to remedy the evils of the past and preserve the Maori race. "Tamehana" wishes to perpetuate the evils apparently. Let me remind him that there is a worse evil than childhood,'and that is pitiable second childhood, or dotage. NGATIHA.UA.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 243, 14 October 1933, Page 8
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