MAORIS AT SEA

Manawatu Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 2560, 18 December 1924, Page 10

MAORIS AT SEA

RUIMiY TO (JOM I'IjAI’NTS. THKJU SPPCIA P rtIIVIL.'KGKS. SYDNI3Y. D'-"c. 16. In reply ins to tlio complaints about Hie courtiicl ol’ Hie party of Maoris aboard Hie steamer Misbima. Muru, l> s. Slokn ways Hie allowed domimi-liu-i ol’ Hie second-class accommodation by the third-class passengers was not elialh used until the ship arrived at Townsville. .Subsequently a party of thirty missions -was infonned by one of Hie ship’s oflieers Unit as a complaint had been lodged by see-ond-ela.'-s passengers, i’l Ini are tin third-class passf iigers would have to remain in their allotted portion ot Hi,, ship. The Maori party. alHiongh it was I ravel] ing' third- elans, had been extended Hie privilege by Hie mvir i'S of Hie vessel of using I lie second-class aeeomnuidalion, and other facilities it required. The complainants were informed of this fad. but still obstinately insisted that these privileges slionld not be extended to the Maori party. The alleg'd a.vsaull was Hie outcome of an insult to two of the Maori parly’s womenfolk. The statement that the shill’s oltieers encouraged Hie action of the .Maoris was untrue. The .rum nui inh, r's altitude in refusing' to see tile complainants was justllled alter they had llireatened Mint they would personally, and through I lie Press, advise Kniopeans not to pali onise .1 apa nese ships.