PROBLEMS OF THE MAORIS
PIiKA FOR UNDERSTANDING
A plea for the wider understanding of the problems of the Alaoris was made by Dr. W. S. Dale in a lecture to the People’s University in Auckland. He said the past history of the Araoris, essentially a tropical people, had shown that their natural energy had enabled them to adapt new materials for clothing and also to adopt a different diet Their arts and crafts also had altered, but these bad persisted through the centuries until shattered by European contacts. Dr. Dale continued. The Araoris had had their traditional cultural ideals taken away from them and this failure to touch the racial imagination was tho cause of much of their apathy to-day. The Alaoris’ own culture was- both precious and necessary to them and a social system co-ordinating the best features of both Alaori and European culture was the only solution of the Maori problem.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19126, 22 September 1936, Page 4
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