THE PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION.
(To the Editor.) Sir, —In your issue of Friday last you reprint an article from the Auckland “Star,” wherein it is stated that the candidate selected by Katana lor the Eastern Maori Parliamentary seat “is Taranaki Te La, a Hawke s Bay chieftain and a prominent Kataua-ite.” It is quite true that 1 am a candidate for the Eastern Maori seat, but it is incorrect to say that 1 have been ! selected by Katana. While 1 believe that Katana has done much good tor the Maoris, 1 have nothing to do with him politically. Ou previous occasions 1 have been asked to stand for Parliament, but have declined, but my supporters have again repeated their request and now 1 am going to the poll, and Katana has no more to do with it now than he had before. lam a straight-out supporter of the Reform party, because 1 think they have tried to legislate to help the Maori race, and there is no better party in sight. The Auckland “Star,” from which you take your article, is an opponent of the Reform party and 1 think that the publication was intended to disparage my candidature. Ratana’s work and political work are totally, different things, while each may be good there is no connection between them so far as I am concerned.—l am, etc.,
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XII, Issue 231, 12 September 1922, Page 2
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226THE PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION. Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XII, Issue 231, 12 September 1922, Page 2
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