SOUTHERN MAORI SEAT
MR. PARATA CONDUCTING A WIG OROUS CAMPAIGN."
.(BI TELEQRAPB.—PBSSS ASSOCIATION!-)
CHRISTCHURGH,' This Day.
Mr. H. Parata. the Government candidate for the Southern Maori, seat, is conducting a vigorpus campaign'in the South' Island. He' addressed-a meeting at 'Rakaia on Saturday.night with regard to tjie, conscription.of .South Island Natives for. service abroad, and_ -urged that compulsion should not be applied. He pointEd to^the fine record of voluntary enlistment, amounting to 75 per cent of eligibles.' He considered the economic problem as it affects the Maori race could best be.solved by self-reliant action on the line's of the small farmer ca-'op.erative organisations, arriving at the elimination of the middlemen's profits." He advocated the urgent need for improvement in the educational facilities afforded the Maoris, also the conservation' of the Maori, language. ' "; '"■■._■ ■' - ■ ■ ■
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Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 42, 18 February 1918, Page 7
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