MAORI MEETINGS.

Feilding Star, Volume I, Issue 266, 15 May 1907, Page 2

MAORI MEETINGS.

♦ [FSB PBESB ASSOCIATION.] Auckland, May 16. An unexpected Maori meeting Vas held at Waahi yesterday, when the remainder of the Natives were about to depart (the Arawas having already returned home). The president of the meeting, Taingakawa, suggested an amendment on the resolutions arrived at. Te pointed out they had not nominated anyone to act as leader of the movement for the federation of the Native race, and that Mahuta's name had been omitted from the heading of the petition to Parliament. This action was condemned, except by the Kingites, as an unfair attempt to raise the mana of Hahuta above that of the other chiefs, and to revise the Kingship which Mahuta was understood to have yielded von accepting the appointment to the Legislative Council, with Cabinet rank. This action, one outspoken delegate said, if permitted in, would render the attempt to secure the union of the Maori race Nagatory. Mahuta, he" said, was a chief, but not more than a chief. Any claim he had to the Kingship he sold for the Legislative mess of pottage, and his creation as head of the Union, formed, among other things, to protest against the Legislative enactments promulgated by the Cabinet of which he was a member, would stultify every efforts of the deputation. It was urged that any defects should have been pointed out while the whole of the Natives were present. Eventually the matter was allowed to stand over till .Wednesday.