SOUTH ISLAND MAORIS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 12214, 2 August 1910, Page 5

SOUTH ISLAND MAORIS.

FEELING OF PISCONTENT. (Special to the Herald.) OHRISTCHURCH, this day. The feeling of discontent which for so many years has? prevailed m the minds of the Maoris .-of the South Island., as dealt with byj Judgiv Feiiton, Mr Smith and various commissioners m the reports of Mr Alex. * MackAy- and other -officers of f/he r Government* though outwardly dormant, is- inwardly rankling m the Native mine.; » At the , school opening proceedings atvM.almvi, the Rev. C. A. Fraser gavo expression to what any Maori speaker would say if he spoke candidly; and was followed by the S overfill chief of Kaiapoi and another lativc, who guvo the impression tlmt tbe^q is a feeling of un*eM> It .was .statedmthat: the • provision, of the school >vas "but a tardy and parsimonious fulfilment,, of. Uio -tflrhiH yof the Agreement niitde by the "tyabris m" 1844 with Wakefield, and.in, 1845 wiUr'Kenip. In the terms ,ma.da with. Wakefield, the Maoris expected the, return of ttfne acre' \ in /ten, and these tenths haye 1 .been. a. KOiiiiee'lof trouble. The Maoris m Konlt)'iJ.?<d6ed rely on the fuels that theii^ljitnces' for food geltiug were to ba^oiuvwed a» reserves, namely, the eel wftirs'«nd country on which grew fern root, and.-plaeeß oil which birds could be ' tiaptured.V '^hey were later promised ltofepAsilri #hd cal care, education, and iiiuittendairk'ad vantages^ but they stil^think-the 1 efforts mnde are only a comparative dole. Judging by what- transpired only at Tnahiwi yesterday, there is a rankling m the breast of the Maori which is deep, if it is sometimes silent.. The Rev. Mr Fraser said/ nt the school 6penhig ; the. Government had more to rlo than simply erecting a school building and leaving the r^st to chance. It had the educational and moral care of the people to deal with. . :; ■■;■-.■■■ . ' ;