THE MAORI PEOPLE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 9, 8 December 1932, Page 11

THE MAORI PEOPLE.

PRIDE IN THEIR RACE,

HIS MAJESTY’S DESIRE

Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Dec. 8. “Do all in your power to induce the Maori people to take a pride in their race, to keep up their beautiful language and. to continue to pursue, so tar as it is possible, their own peculiar accomplishments.” These were the parting words of His Majesty the King to Lord Bledisloo as ho handed him his commission to represent him in New Zealand, the Governor-General told those who attended the Maori mission reception to-day. hollowing this disclosure, His Excellency referred to the Maoris’ “at- ■ tractive carving, of which so little is done nowadays,” and to the Maori I music, “of which wo have had some : good examples this afternoon.” j “No garnering during the past 2f I years or more that we have been j among you has given mo more pleas- | ure tnan that talcing place this after- ' noon, and. which is composed of members of the two races who. are intent upon the desirable object of advancing the spiritual enlightenment of the iMaori race,” he said. His Excellency said that ho was [very glad that the Bill investing the site of the signing of the Treaty of ; in the nation was being placed before Parliament the same day. “Just as the greatness of the British Empire, has been largely ; founded upon the resourcefulness and ' enterprise of .. its members, so the i greatness of the Maori race will dejpend upon its capacity to work out jits own salvation,” Lord Bledisloe dcclflrcd* i Air M. D. Bennett assured Their , Excellencies of the Maoris’ appreciajtion of their gift which conveyed a noble thought and a noble deed-