Roll revision ‘discriminatory’
PA Audrland The Auckland District Maori Council says that the new electoral-roll revision procedures are “arbitrary and discriminatory against Maoris.” Referring to a recent report which said that there could be as many as 2000 non-Maoris wrongly on Maori rolls, Dr Rang! Walker, the council's chairman, said that equally there were thousands of Maoris wrongly placed on the European roll. They were denied the same privilege offered to non-Maoris on Maori rolls
of being able to correct the situation by writing to Having exercised their opthe Registrar of Electors, tion at the last General Election, Maoris could not switch rolls even though many were wrongly on the European roll. ' “If New Zealand is to run a two-roll system, the .option for non-Maoris to correct a roll error must apply equally to Maoris,”, said Dr Walker. “It is the legal denial of equality rather .than the two-roll system that condemns New Zealand as a country guilty of oppressing the Maori people.’’
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