THE MAORI RACE
INTEREST OF THE KING “Do'all in your power to induce the Maori people to take a. pride in. their race, to keep up their beautiful language, and to continue to pursue as far as it is possible their own peculiar accomplishments.’’ These were the parting words of His Majesty the King to Lord Bledisloe as lie handed him his commission to represent him in New Zealand, the Governor-General told those who attended a Maori mission reception in Wellington this week. Following this disclosure His Excellency referred to the Maoris’ attractive carving, of which so little is done nowadays, and to Maori music, “of which we. have, had some good examples this afternoon. 1 iis Excellency said ho was very glad that the bill vesting the site of the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi in tho nation was being placed before Parliament the same day. Just as the greatness of the British Empire has been largely founded upon tho resourcefulness and enterprise of its members the greatness of the Maori race would depend upon its capacity to .work out its own salvation.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17958, 9 December 1932, Page 2
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