It has, says the Eketahuna Express, just come to our notice, on a perusal of the Government railway time-table, that natives, when travelling to "tangis," or Maori funerals, are granted concessions on the railways. That similar concessions are not granted to Europeans is neither hero nor there. We emphatically protest against special facilities being offered the natives for wasting theii time and substance in perpetuating a wretched superstitution. The Government of the colony pretends that it is anxious ten the welfare of tfie native, and yet it encourages an old-time practice which is at once demoralising and impoverishing. In the interests of the race of whom we are all so proud, we demand a withdrawal of the railway concession.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XL, Issue 12266, 9 May 1903, Page 5
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