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UACTAL LINE DEAWN. (From Our Parliamentary Special.) WELDING TON, This Day. Some years ago, on visiting America, said Mr Taite Te Tomo (Western Maori) in the House of Representatives last night, he wrote back to the New Zealand Native Minister, telling him there was a law against the natives which he would not like to see passed In New Zealand, and he felt proud and pleased to be under the British flag. However, he added, there was a sign that American laws wore) coming into New Zealand, for there were certain picture theatres in Wellington where Maoris were not allowed to go except into the gallery., A member: 1 ‘Shame!” “I regret,” added Mr To Tomo, “that such action has been taken ,in New Zealand, and under the Union Jack.”
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Northern Advocate, 14 August 1931, Page 10
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