ROYALTIES FOR OIL.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 139, 15 June 1938, Page 3

ROYALTIES FOR OIL.

ATTITUDE OF MAORIS. EXPRESSION' t.IYEX IX HAKA. (From Our Corresiiomlent.) (iISHORXE. Tiipxclav. The subject nf rovalt it's for oil whirli Ik' secured from native land was voiced in novel fashion at a Maori patlioriiijr at near Ruatoria. I'll,' acting Mini-tcr of Native AfT.nrs. the Hon. I". vvji* in attend anee. and the concluding liaka »a« delayed Ion;: enmitjh for Sir Apinuui to j»ive .1 brief expla 11:11 ion. Thi> liaka. Sir Apirana said. had been specially (••■iii])o-ed to eoiivev in some what humoroii- term- the opinion of the native- in leyard to the ai l ion of t lie Minister of .Mine.-, the lion. I'. ( . Webb, in "eolla liii'j' the Maoris' oil rights." and it v.oiild lie 'niiiler-tood that the liaka followed the .(id M ; 011 ciist oin 11 \ inelnd - ilrj —1 Hue stum;: -near word-. The haka party then pci lorined it* special com pi 1.-it ion . which wa- accompanied by pc-titre- and exprc--ion- ton vcyin;: to et cryouc pre-cnl. whether or riot they niuici-tood the Ma ui the objection- \v illl which tile native* viewed the <..iv em ment > oil policy. When reply in;; later to the weleome hy Sir Aphana Njiata. the Mini-ter referred to the haka and r-: ti 11 that while he nililer-t ood the i 11. •i 11 e 111 . he vva- one who believed that wealth wat,, Inhad fl'olll the eiiltiv.it ion of the .soil. Me did not feel that the M,i..i i- ,-lionld look too deep into the earth for tlieii nat lira 1 w call h. It appeartd from their reference to oil ! i-ht- t hat the 11 alive- tell that I lie » iov eminent V policy wan-jain ! the piovi-ion- of the IVeatv of W.ntairji. the Mini tcr added. He would not phic too much hope on the search for oil.