STILL A CHILD
BISHOP'S ADVICE
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
AUCKLAND, This Day.
"The mistake most people make is in treating the Maori as an adult when, in point of comparison with the pakeha, he is still a child! The pakeha is two thousand years old and the Maori only a hundred," said Bishop Bennett of Aotearoa, speaking of the recent disclosures of Maori conditions in North Auckland. It was a tribute to the Maori that in all ways the pakeha should treat him as an equal, but in a number of cases it had bad results. The Maori needed to be led kindly and helpfully in the form of guardianship. If a leader of his own race was not possible, a pakeha whom the Maori would respect and trust could do a lot in controlling and organising the Maori for modern conditions of life.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 29, 4 February 1937, Page 14
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143STILL A CHILD Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 29, 4 February 1937, Page 14
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