PROMISE TO MAORIS
DEMOCRATS AND PROPAGANDA “OFFER TO KING A FRAUD.” [Special to "Northern Advocate”] DARGAVILLE, This Day. Recently it was reported that the Democrat Party was trying to catch the Maori vote by promising the Maori king an annuity of £ISOO for life. This statement was challenged by Mr J. Caughley, Democrat candidate for Kaipara, during his address at Ruawai. Mr Caughley stated that the promise to give "the Maori king £ISOO a year for life was not in an official pamphlet of the Democrat Party to the Maoris, but in a subsequent one, which was circulated entirely without the authority of the party by two Maoris, who had ideas of standing as Democrat candidates. They had used the name of Mr T. C. A. Hislop, the Leader of the Democrat Party, without his consent or knowledge. The whole thing, he alleged, was a fraud, and the two Maoris concerned had been warned not to use the party’s name in future.
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Northern Advocate, 25 October 1935, Page 6
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162PROMISE TO MAORIS Northern Advocate, 25 October 1935, Page 6
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