KING COUNTRY LICENSING
VIEWS OF BAPTIST ASSEMBLY
Dissatisfaction with the approach of the Government to the licensing issue
in the King Country was, expressed by delegates to the Baptist Assembly, which is meeting in Christchurch. “To hold combined polls on the issue is not a manifestation of democracy, but a piece of political cynicism,” said the Rev. N. R. Wood. He said the Assembly strongly affirmed its conviction that the issue should be settled by the Maori people of the King Country, as the present situation was'the result of the petition of the Maori people which resulted in the proclamation of 1884.
“That this is solely a Maori question was also the opinion of the Royal Commission and expressed by the 1949 Government in its two separate polls” said Mr Wood. “It is reprehensible that this historic Maori issue is to be made a political pawn on the basis of European voting power.” The Assembly decided to urge the Government that, in view of the verdict the Maori people expressed in the 1949 poll, no further action be pursued.
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27192, 9 November 1953, Page 10
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