THE MAORI-WHY NOT ARM HIM ?
AND ALSO DRILL HIM,
(By Telegraph—Special Correspondent.! Wanganui, May IG.
Apropos o£ General Godley's recent visit to Wanganui, a man who has spent his lifetime in touch' with the Maoris, and is thoroughly familiar with them, urges, through the local press, that tho young Maoris should be given a place in the universal training scheme. At the present time, he says, the young Natives, with but few exceptions, spend their time in leafing, cigurelto smoking, and, as he put it, "Doins anything but work." lie considers .that defence training would at. least give them something .to take a live interest in, and would wean them, for part of their time at least, from idle hubits, and be better for them morally as well as physically, besides, providing a defence asset of considerable ■value.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1129, 17 May 1911, Page 4
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