TELEGRAMS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25, 30 January 1912, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

DR. POMARE'S ELECTION. "WHAT HIS OPPONENTS AVER. [*T TILEGaAPH— BPICIAL TO TH» POST.] AUCKLAND, This Day. The validity of Dr. Pomare's election is, it is understood, to be discussed at, this week's meeting of Maoris at Waahi. Dr. Pomare's opponents aver that he ia a three-quarter caste, as he is a son of a | halfcaste parent, and that as he lives as a European he is to all intents and purposes a European, and,, as such, cannot legally represent a Native Constituency. His followers, on the other hand, insist that, as a son of a full native of the Chatham Islands and a halfcaste mother, he is a three-quarter native, and, as such, is eligible for a seat in Parliament. They agree that one who is a threequarter European has no rights of succession to Native land, and that such a one could not legally represent a Native constituency in Parliament. Mr. Henare Kaihau, ex-M.P., when scan, scouted the idea of endeavouring to 'unseat Dr. Pomare. He said that Poinare had fonght a good fight and an honest one, and as he was favoured by a large majority of the constituents who knew all about his birth he was a legitimate member. Pomare had „ introduced "no dirt" into the fight,' aod it would be most unbecoming to his (Kaihau's) party to institute undignified proceedings. He had been badly beaten, 1 and had accepted defeat in the same ! manly way in which Dr. Pomaro, who would prqvo a good friend to the Natives, had welcomed hia victory. He, therefore^ would not be a party to any suit, ana would not form auv cabal against the doctor with any or all of the other defeated and disappointed candidates.