“MAORI STILL A CHILD”
KINDLY GUIDANCE NEEDED PAKEHA’S MISTAKEN ATTITUDE (Peb United Press Association) AUCKLAND. Feb. 4. “ The mistake most people make is in treating the Maori as an adult when, in point of comparison with the pakeha, he is still a child. The pakeha is 2000 years old, and the Maori only a hundred,” said Bishop Bennett of Aotearoa, speaking of the recent disclosures of Maori conditions in North Auckland. It was a tribute to the Maori that in all ways the pakeha should treat him as an equal, but in a number of cases it had had bad results. The Maori needed to be led kindly and helpfully in the form of guardianship. If a leader of his own race were not possible, then a plakeha whom the Maori would respect and trust could do a lot in controlling and organising the Maori for the modern conditions of life.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23107, 5 February 1937, Page 10
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