DR POMARE ON THE MAORI.

Colonist, Volume XLIX, Issue 11999, 27 July 1907, Page 1 (Supplement)

DR POMARE ON THE MAORI.

In a recent address, Dr. Pomare expressed the opinion that the Maori was doomed not to extinction but to absorption. Nearly 80 per cent of the South Island Maoris now havo European blood in them, while the North Island Maoris also have a l:irga admixture of pakeba blood. Ho iirt not, however, believe the Maoris would entirely die out, but the future would find a new race, in whose veins would be cammingled the blood of Anglo-S^xon and Maori. At the point where we two aryan rn/jes diverged, you had the good luck to turn westward. You "were afraid of the sea in those days. My ancestors, having no such foar, turned eastward, and we travelled on until we arrived to people the sunny isles of this great southern sea. You had the good luck iv turning westward to come across the metal we buy. Keeping eastward we were still in the stone age. Westward you met other people from whom you learned in arts and sciences. We ui9t nought but inferior negroid races. Thus it was that when in the years to come we two branches of the same race met again, you were possessed of all which civilisation was abla to lend you, while we were still a stone age people. The British have been alowly arriving at their state for hundreds, nay thousands of years. We had been brought into the'fierce light of civiisation almost at a flash, and it naturally takes time for a pejple to adapt themselves to n9W surroundings. "