MAORI RATES
CABINET MINISTERS SYMPATHETIC [Per United Press Association.] WAITANGI, February 6. A conference on the rating question was held at Waitangi to-day between the Maoris and Cabinet Ministers. The Maori speakers appealed that rating should be suspended until better times. Sir Apirana Ngata,, speaking as a mere Native, informed his colleagues that the goodwill of the Maoris engendered by yesterday’s remarkable demonstration would not be retained if the pakeha administration were pushed down the throats of the Natives. He averred that no Cabinet had been more sympathetic and reasonable towards the Maoris than the present Ministry. This was endorsed by the Prime Minister (Mr Forbes) and Mr Coates. The former disclaimed that taxation would lead to the confiscation of land. No Government would allow that, and in no way. would Cabinet let down the Treaty of Waitangi. The meeting closed with a haka and cheers.
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Evening Star, Issue 21639, 7 February 1934, Page 5
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