MAORI MENTALITY

Feilding Star, Volume 7, Issue 2305, 6 September 1929, Page 5

MAORI MENTALITY

AS GOOD AS THE PAKEHA N.Z. LECTURER, IN U.S.A (Aust. and N.Z. Cable) (Received Sept-. 6, 10.25 a.m.) New York, Sept 5 At Newhaven in Connecticut, lecturing at tho ninth international congress of Psychology at Yale University Professor I. L. G. Sutherland of Victoria University College, Wellington, New Zealand, read a paper on the intelligence of the Maori. He reported that his study of the Maoris intelligence in comparison, with that of the white*? in no way supported the belief in race traits as the) main influence upon culture. He could find nothing to -.‘support the theory, that there are ■intrinsic differences between the primative and the civilised mind. He had found that the Maori argued as logically as the white thinker once ho .was familiar with, the premises.