ORIGIN OF MAORIS AND CELTS
MR FRASgR PREFERS HIS PRESENT JOB (New Zealand Press Association.) WELLINGTON, August 9. The House of Representatives opened its week in good humour to-day when Mr A. S. Sutherland (Opposition, Hauraki) gave notice to ask the Prime Minister (Mr Fraser) “if he will advise the House when he proposes to lay down the Prime Ministership and commence utilising his idle time in tracing the origin of the Maori race.” Amid laughter led by Mr Fraser, Mr Sutherland said it had been reported that the Prime Minister intended on his retirement to trace the origin of the Maori race and prove that the Maoris and the clans of the -Celtic race were brothers.
When the merriment subsided, Mr Fraser was ready with a reply: that important as was the work of studying the Maori’s origins, a task to which Sir James Carroll was one of the first to apply himself, there was still more important work in the Prime Ministersnip: he had no intention of laying down his present job for at least 10 years.
r- T Ji e J jea £ er ?.t. the Opposition (Mr S. G. Holland): Wishful thinking.
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25878, 10 August 1949, Page 6
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