AN EXTRAORDINARY POSITION.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 143672, 16 December 1911, Page 7

AN EXTRAORDINARY POSITION.

(To the Editor.) Sir, —It appears to be a most extraordinary position that a Government has to depend upon the election of four Maoris, who have to be elected by their own people, who are not in any electoral roll, require no registration and whose votes are taken anyhow—a people who are looked upon by the legislator as either minors or imbeciles, not able to manage or conduct their own business, but must have a wet nurse—the Public Trustee—to spoon-feed them, and yet these people are asked to decide who shall govern the country! They n e practically asked whether Europeans shall borrow millions to increase the value of their own property. Two of these people arc in the present Cabinet. Can Europeans expect fair piny between the two races? Is it not an insult to the intelligence of the British community that two Maoris should hold Cabinet positions against seven British, when the former have only 40,000 against the latter’s million of population in the Dominion.—l am. etc., W. HUMPHRIES.