ON EQUAL FOOTING
MAORI AND PAKEHA GOVERNMENT'S PROPOSAL (By Telegraph) (Special to the "Evening Post.") NEW PLYMOUTH, This Day. The proposal of the Government to place the Maori on equality with the European and give effect to the Treaty of Waitangi in spirit as well as in letter will be fully discussed this month at the Maui Pomare memorial meeting at Waitara. A debate on the recent statement of policy made by the Prime Minister (the Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage) will begin on June 25 and finish on the following night, so that the Maori view may be submitted to the .Prime Minister on June 27. Representatives of all the Maori tribes have been invited to take part in the discussion.
Subsidiary items on the agenda are the position of Maori Rugby football, Maori unemployment, housing, health, and education, the further development of Native arts and crafts, and the establishment of a Maori marae at Wellington.
A programme for the celeWrations on June 27 has been drawn up. They will begin at 10 a.m. with a reception and dances of welcome for the Gov-ernor-General (Lord Galway) and a party of Parliamentarians. The unveiling of the Maui Pomare monument and the official opening of the carved meeting-house will follow.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 137, 11 June 1936, Page 7
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209ON EQUAL FOOTING Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 137, 11 June 1936, Page 7
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