MAORI AND PAKEHA.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLII, Issue 169, 18 July 1908, Page 7

MAORI AND PAKEHA.

SHOULD THEY MINGLE IN MARRIAGE?

£pRESS ASSOCIATION.] WELLINGTON, July 17, To-day at the Maori Congress Messrs A. L. D. Eraser and Herries, M.P.s, delivered addresses on the question, Has the time arrived for removing--legislative distinctions between pakeha and Maori? Mr Eraser urged' that the Maori should be placed on the same electoral roll as the pakeha, and allowed to vote for the candidate he thought best. '

Mr Herries agreed with him in the mam. He denied that there was any colour-line^-and said he thought that they should mingl^ with the pakeha as one people. The Englishmanl was a mixture of Celt, Saxon, Norman* and Dane;, and they produced a distinct nation. He hoped that there would be this commingling of pakeha and Maori in New Zealand; he looked to the day when the future New Zealander would boast of Maori blood in his veins. '