NATIVES' RIGHTS
ACCLIMATISATION SOCIETY CONCERNED. [BX, XBLEOBAPH — SPECIAL TO THE POST.] AUCKLAND. This Day. The sophisticated Maori still affects one belief of his grandfather who lived in the unsophisticated days' of 1840, when all the game, laws of the colony were contained in the Treaty of Waftangi, which gave the Maori the freedom of the rivers and all that in or on them was. This belief is combined with an instinct which guides the native unerringly to hidden breeding-places of fowl and fish in 'the swamps and shallow waters, and the Auckland Acclimatisation Society has been perturbed by reports that natives in some parts of the' district- carry off the eggs of wild ducks and swans in great quantities during the nesting season. The society intends obtaining advice as to the legality of this action by the natives, and taking measures to have it stopped.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 140, 13 June 1912, Page 3
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145NATIVES' RIGHTS Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 140, 13 June 1912, Page 3
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