MAORI WELCOME TO PREMIER
MR SAVAGE’S PROMISE
[Per United Press Association.]
AUCKLAND, January 5. As “ captain of the great canot known as the Labour Party” the Prime Minister received a traditional Maori welcome • when he , visited the village of Orakei this afternoon. It was the first time that Mr Savage had visited the Maoris in his capacity, of Minister of Native Affairs, ■,
Eepresentatives of tribes in, 'the North and South Islands and other Maori organisations were associated it* the welcome to him. Mr Savage received from the Orakei Maoris and representatives of tribes as far south as Taranaki an inkstand androen on a native carved base, while HiaHira, paramount chief of the Tamaki district,handed to him a Bible brought to New, Zealand by Sainuel Marsden and a copy of the Treaty of Waitangi bound in book form.
“ I promise you that the letter and spirit of the Treaty of Waitangi will he kept by the first Labour Government that has had the privilege _of honouring its contracts with the Native race,” said Mr Savage in reply.'
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Evening Star, Issue 22229, 6 January 1936, Page 2
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176MAORI WELCOME TO PREMIER Evening Star, Issue 22229, 6 January 1936, Page 2
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