“Have you any comment on the Maori race?” Mr George Bernard Shaw was asked in Palmerston North. “Everyone appears to think that I came to New Zealand to study the Maori race,” he replied. “As a matter of fact I did not. I came to study the pakeha. New Zealanders are better off on the whole than people in other parts of the world. They are a pleasant people, and better spoken than the people in England, but then we are such a miserable sort of advertisement. It seems to me that New Zealand has a happy climate. I have never seen a Maori unhappy, in spite of our endeavours to make them religiously miserable.”
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Southland Times, Issue 22294, 9 April 1934, Page 6
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