PHILOSOPHERS.

Thames Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 17662, 13 August 1929, Page 4

PHILOSOPHERS.

MAORIS AND WORK

The Maori is a great philosopher, and frequently adds humour to his philcfophising. Tu a country district some natives had built a wliare amongst some beautiful native hush and had taken rather a big contract of gorse grubbing which was not paying them well. At the week-end some pakehas who went to see how they were getting on found that they had foregone their Saturday half-holiday in an endeavour to make enough money to buy 'a kia. “The white man brine the gopre to New Zealand, and now he get the Maori to try and take out the roots.” was the wav one cf the hardest-working Maoris nut it. “The-' white fellow he at the football match to-day because he earn 14/- a rlny on relief work. They say to the Maori: “Go bito the country and v-ni-V on +he land—that is the rjaee for you. Then when we have grubbed tb* syrse the whiteman comes r.long with * his hersep. and ploughs where n-f, bn vp cleared, and then says: Look wlmt we can produce from thel l-'-ifl 1 >ll was produced till the Maori cleared- it was gorse.”