PARLIAMENTARY REPRESENTATION.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LV, Issue 13992, 25 August 1909, Page 4

PARLIAMENTARY REPRESENTATION.

- Speaking' at a no-license demonstration recently at Christchurch, the Anglican Church clergyman, the Rev. F. Bennett, f aid: "The time has not yet come wheft° we can do away with our Maori, representatives. With men like the Hdn. At" T. Ngata and Mr. Tc Hangihjroi (Dri P. H. Buck) it was no easy matter for the Natives to give up. their ittepresentatives. These men tv«NM better itarrt 15 per cent, of tin Pek.b.' ni%W." This gentleman if jJso of theToung Maori P«rty, whic 1 ' lias for its object the improvement of tb» moTat, social, and political condition of tbeir fellow-countrymen * — al' honour 1 to -them — bat surely there 15 some imJatuistency in opposing the improvement in the social and political status of the Maori which would certainly rennlt were all' special Native legislation" repealed and the MaAri per niitted to stand forth as a British subject, with equal rights under similar laws as his Pakeha neighbour. It is a curious admission for one of the leaders of the Young Maori Party to make v that the time has not arrived yet." What has the Young Maori Party been doing, then, since its inception thirteen years ago?