EXCLUSION OF MAORIS.
FEDERAL OLD AGE PENSIONS. ACTING-PREMIER'S REMONSTRANCE By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. The Hon. J. Carroll, Acting Prim? -., . .Minister, hag seat the following cable '?~j . l * Hr. Deakin, Prime Minister of Aus-;-.ii-traliaF-"The New Zealand Government , *:. regreU to learn by cable that the Feds' eral Government has seen fit to exr dude Maoris from the benefits of the "old age pension scheme iu New Zealand, /he Maoris enjoy equal pensions and legal privileges with the European population. Therefore the exclusion seems an unfair restriction, especially as we do not place any special restriction on Australian native-born, and hence an ; aboriginal native-born Australian would ;be entitled to a pension under our laws. . ine characteristic disinclination of Maoris to permanently reside outside their own land reduces the prospect of any call on your pension fund on their * account to a lniaiinum,"
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 172, 13 August 1909, Page 3
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