THE MAORI MIND
“There are few ' Europeans who can really enter into the Maori mind,” said the Rev. J. Fisher, of Kumara, urging the appointment of a Maori priest in the diocese of Christchurch at the Anglican Synod. “We should lake advantage of what ip good in the ancient Maori culture,” he said In many places those things are being lest There are young Maoris in my parish who .speak no more Maori than I do—yet they are still Maoris, and they do not think as we think. A man of their own .race can enter into their minds as none of us can.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20074, 21 October 1939, Page 12
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104THE MAORI MIND Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20074, 21 October 1939, Page 12
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