MAORIS MAKE REQUEST FOR SCRUTINEERS AT COMING POLL.
(Special to the “Star.’’) WELLINGTON, September 28. Over 3000 natives of \ the Tokerau district have petitioned- Parliament through the Northern Maori member, Mr Tau Henare, praying that at the coming Parliamentary elections scrutineers on behalf -of Maori candidates be allowed to sit with thfe returning officers.- • “We humbly pray that this power be given-us so that the feelings of uneasiness on the part of Maoris as to the genuineness of Maori votes cast may be allayed,and 1 in order to carry- out provisions of the Treaty of Waitangi, namely ‘imparts to them all che rights and privileges of British subjects.’” .
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18578, 28 September 1928, Page 1
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