THE ONLY HOPE FOR THE MAORI RACE.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13320, 10 November 1906, Page 3

THE ONLY HOPE FOR THE MAORI RACE.

' t - ■ (To the :5 Editor;) : " ! „' 1 ' Sir,' — Tn 1 your, interesting and ' iji- ( structiye, leader] in. Saturday's Herald i ■ j-o-i say:^- 1 ': Thu- ' oW '#>* j Maori race lies-, T in. our opinion, In i work ; they must -liavc PO^inethinK io j live-fot-jftl'hprwitte'lfeey will die, how- ( ever caraftilly l'lK?y aic tended." Atro- ■ _, phy, ;;insanitar^ /, &urroxindm'gS' 'avid , cori^unisni are ,thß causes' you euumerale'for^t/he .decree of thsT- Maori face. .Certainly .tliese are fchc - Maori causes, %u't tlicre' as one ol \he greatest' cause* of Pakeh'a'- origin' which you have fai'^tl, a tb mention; aianiely, th'p ciri?ik 'traffic. %\- 'traffic that \ de- ' troys ' 210,000 ,liyes jp ' tli3 United' Kingdom. , per vcar antl 31^000- in Australasia is -an t eaiei»y to. any -nace", of people. T^re "\i^\ no,... mistaking the facrt. that, as 3lr. v Hardy'; tho English actuary, told the shareholders o f "the l).l£." Temperance and General Insui'ance, Society, ,'thali "those who dent drink doii't, :die so fiast.'^ j Then why tojerato such , an oGtopus traffic whete -is , Critish b.oasted - jmtriotiam ? —I am/ &c., ' ' ••-• ..'• - : ui , \ -A FRfeNp' OF THE 3LAORI.' (^ye dicl 'not. mention' ' 'drink as one of the causes • of the 'd'eeline s of the Maoris' 'because all through' the re- - fort we l:a«ccl ! our remarks upon there a^e ■ evidtnoos that the Natives

as a. whole are -becoming more and ■ mbfe, temperate every year. ''^Thatus how -S.tr Ed gSF' 'sums ' ii' iip.— Efl. T.H.) • • ' . '•