ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATIOH

Evening Star, Issue 23175, 26 January 1939, Page 3

ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATIOH

TROPIC ISLANDS REPRESENTATIVE’S VISIT GREAT ADMIRATION FOR MAORI RAGE [Pek United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, January 25. At present in Wellington is Hr S. M. Lambert, for the past 27 years sole representative of the Rockefeller Foundation in the tropic islands of the Pacific. His studies of native races include Maoris, and recently he completed a close study of these people extending over a year. He will make a confidential report to the Government. Dr Lambert has the greatest admiration for the Maoris, and lie believes that, like the other native races with whom he has come into contact in the islands, they are willing and anxious to learn how to help themselves He said that Fast Indians were now increasing more rapidly than the Fijian natives, and he holds the view that in order to preserve the Fijians from degeneration steps should be taken to postpone the East Indians’ predominance.