MAORI SEATS
(N.Z. Press Association) ROTORUA, May 21. Separate Maori representation in Parliament will cease in IQ years if the Minister of Maori Affairs (Mr Hanan) has his ways. But he says he is a lone crusader in Parliament. “I feel it must go,” he told the second annual conference of the Association of Maori Graduates at the Tamatekapua meeting house in Rotorua on Saturday. “Its veiy existence may be an impediment to the smooth integration of our people,” said Mr Hanan. “I wish someone in my party or the other party would put up a bill for the abolition of the Maori seats—setting up a date 10 years hence.”
Earlier he said: “Certainly it is fair to say there are no crusaders in either party at the present time . . . except myself, and then in a personal capacity.”
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31375, 22 May 1967, Page 3
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