SATURDAY, AUGUST 8.
Mr Parata has presented a petition from 100 Maoris, which cays it has been heard by them that the Government is paying a certain man to write the history of their ancestors. They are not agreeable, they ay, that the genuine, correct history and traditions of their ance-stors should be wantonly trampled upon, nor are they favourable to tho wrong spending: of tho moneys of the colony upon the printing of ■the work, and they urge that the author should pay for the publication of his own stories, which they characterise in uncomplimentary terms. They therefore ask the House to s-übmit the history to some persons of competent knowledge, lost stories of nc-w creation be published, and left to be accepted as facts by subsequent generations.
NEW PLYMOUTH HARBOUR BOARD.
Feeling has been aroused in Taranaki over the New Plymouth Harbour Board Empowering Bill, which gives the board power lo borrow £150.000. Settlers who already jire p-ctty heavily rated are objecting to a proposal which will still further increase dicir liabilities, and a Defence League has •been formed, and a strong deputation to the Premier agair.it the measure is being arranged.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2579, 19 August 1903, Page 34
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