THE MAORI IN INDUSTRY.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 703, 31 December 1909, Page 6

THE MAORI IN INDUSTRY.

" h PAPER BEAD AT CONFERENCE. ' ~. ■ ■ ■tW ;//?»■ l; ' -"- v: : ' .';. ''• (B» Telegraph—Press Jrrpcistion) Auckland, J)ecembar 30. em Division of the Young Maori party to-day,' ilr. Paul, chairman of! tie m-, dustrj tcction, lead a paper on "Tho Industrial Side of Maori Life," and ;■touohedvionJ made jtjli^Sthe*£:% ;farming.;>'v;S|SiV^y;^ Mr. Paul pointed out that m Taranati. a small, number,'.of .Natives' had made'•.• . ! Upp^r : AVanganui'sevcralfamiHesu'ad;^t-.; :^': v tied on bush- lands; .with -favouiable re- v , «,■■ ; souths among'this'.Nga-|saiSJ : tiapa, :<.whose< lands had', been 'individual- - . : lseu, sheep tanning oil a small si ale had been i. taken • up;- : and - gram-growing/: on ;.a.v: 'lbii;for^^arefbyj;tKe^ritiy&;iii;;lM^ rarapa. .On the Coast the;: Maoris, 'satisfactory.results;.' •.-*• ? . ';.V.Dr Buck, MP, said that Jthe, keynote Bfor;thespMtyM6iUdi'l^'^ was V\vau ted: arista ■ in-agricultural:- education-and-nnancial : : sHo.' ! ; upoii¥theirr| : p\^;j:lSnd >'" Mr. l headmaster, cfvlpe .- aut® College, said that Mr Paul's pap r"would statements so often- heard from ~Ll:.e-man, , m the street There were, h© said, a Jot of silly people,, whof because th<>> swr one druni.cn M ion, concluded IhHt all : Maoris-were drunkards,', andrbecan:je. .they, had met one laz\ Maori branded all "• Mtoris as lazy'- Thej had pro fed that they could noik, and work well <1. Dr Buck moved, and Mr G G Paul seconded -."That this conference osk tho Minister for Agriculture to favour ably» consider /the granting; of an-'agrjcmtural; . scholarship, to-,Maori - boys.- .as;..;pipmised r ._ by Mr M'Nab to the Maori Congress of 1908 and consider! tho adnsaliililfiof extending the; functions;.- of ..the. j ■ of ■ the. 'Departments; jn\ Maori'' ithlj'vdirMtion'Wf:^™^ to'; Maori,:; • This '.T 1; . l»«ii